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