U.S. DOJ investigating MLB international player dealings

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Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link

this reminds me that i keep forgetting to delete that spreadsheet i keep which documents the level of egregious behavior of people i know, from minimal to criminal

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link

There was an article about this on fangraphs a few days ago, but the SI report goes a lot further. That spreadsheet is next level craziness.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link

Can someone remind me - didn’t a team already get spanked over something like this? I seem to remember a couple players had to be let go as a result?

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link

the Barves, but it was a little different

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:17 (five years ago) link

Right right, they were offering gifts etc in an effort to get around signing bonus restrictions, or some such iirc.

Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link

well this could be fun

call all destroyer, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link

More analysis on fangraphs: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-dodgers-might-be-in-actual-legal-trouble/

In other words, for current and former Dodgers employees — including people like Gabe Kapler (who ran the Dodgers’ player development system from 2014 through 2016) and Friedman — getting banned from baseball may end up being a best-case scenario depending on the extent of their involvement and whether they knew or should have known about the illegality going on in their operations.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 08:22 (five years ago) link


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