Posted on 05/05/2015 11:37:34 AM PDT by C19fan
Tucked away among the tilled plots and scrubby pastures of this rural town, the Seattle Mariners baseball academy is mostly abandoned. The weight room has been cleared of machines. The numbered locker-room stalls are bare.
One afternoon last week, a grounds crew pulled out bases from the main field while workers packed away a few stray trophies, bats and uniforms. But the teenage prospects who shared bunks here just three weeks ago are gone, shipped off to a newer school in the Dominican Republic.
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Looks their are gonna be fewer Venezuelan players in MLB in the future.
It sure looks Ike it. Cuba should make up for it though.
Wait, so you think that MLB teams will be able to run baseball academies in Cuba without risk of corruption or crime? LOL!
Borderline prospects in Cuba will have an even smaller chance of making it than would those in Venezuela. As the scout said, if the young, untested players are comparable in talent, you’ll take the Dominican over the Venezuelan (or Cuban) every time.
I’m positive anything done in Cuba will be as crooked as a barrel of snakes.
But Cuba will be another farm from which MLB can pick from.
True, same as Venezuela (although less so for the foreseeable future). The issue is whether teams will run baseball academies in those countries to try to develop their own (cheap) talent instead of signing already developed (and thus more expensive) players; the answer is, increasingly, “no” in Venezuela, and it will be “hell no!” in Cuba for quite some time.
alert to NL Central fans ... Allen Craig is about to be optioned to AAA by the BoSox. How far they fall ...
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