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therealryan
I’m surprised by this. I thought for sure the Red Sox would have been able to sign another top 20 prospect for their $300k max. I’ve heard Venezuela is full of 16 year old baseball players who will forgo life changing money just for the chance to play for the Red Sox organization. Obviously a missed opportunity by the Sox here.
Draven Moss
Blame his agent, not the Red Sox. More than likely a “package deal” happened.
therealryan
Whoever is at fault, it feels very shady and against the spirit of the rule. If it truly is the agent’s fault, MLB should bar the agent for not acting in the best interest of his child aged client and allow the player to become a free agent again with a new agent who is looking out for this minor. If it’s the Red Sox who are making back room deals, then MLB should fine them and bar the Red Sox from the international market for the next two years. Either way, there is no reason the #15 or so ranked prospect by multiple sources should be signing for $300k. No other player in MLB’s top 30 signed for less than $700k and 26 or 27 of the top 30 signed for $1,000,000+.
Draven Moss
I understand what you are saying, but this is common practice during the IFA period, especially in Venezuela. There have been quite a few articles written upon it in the pass few weeks, and they are worth looking at if you haven’t read them already. More than likely, his agent overvalued the market causing this to happen. His agent had another top client sign for more than 1MM, so his agent wasn’t a nobody.
johnsilver
Ever been to latin America and other Caribbean countries? If so would find that most anything is for sale for a price.. Starting with justice and anything legal.
Officials in many rural towns expect payouts/bribes, some countries worse than others, but for people that have never left the US it’s hard to explain the corruption that goes on. Probably not as bad (I hope) that went on 40y ago when last was around those areas, but it was on a pretty vast scale then.
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Rosario is 19. That’s long in the tooth to be in DOSL. He’s also a reliever with a 9.00 ERA and more walks than strikeouts. Can you give up less?