MLB is exploiting Latin American prospects as young as 12, a whistleblower tells feds
The risks become real when teams pull out of their agreements, as the Padres did with Garcia and Frias, or reduce their value, as they did with Santin’s other player. Loans go unpaid. Mortgages and car payments come due. Threats are made.
In the Braves scandal, Manfred moved quickly to punish the team for violating rules governing bonus pool amounts teams are allowed to spend on international amateurs. An MLB investigation found that the Braves underreported their signings by inflating the bonus of a lesser prospect who was not subject to the bonus-pool caps and funneling part of that money to top prospects who had signed within the rules but for less money than he was worth.
Blakeley says the feds have questioned him repeatedly about the issue. “I think they would really like to say, ‘This is a mess. It needs to be redone.’ I know the guy I talked to asked me, ‘How would you change this? Why are they not playing by all the rules? Why are they signing kids at this age?’ He goes ...
“When MLB changed the rules, and gave everybody the amount of money they had to sign an international player and they couldn’t go over that amount, teams started signing kids younger. They started by signing kids that were 15. From there they went to 14. Soon as they went to 14, I personally called investigator, and MLB here in the D.R. and abroad and explained to them that teams were illegally signing kids,” Santin said in an interview with USA TODAY Sports.
During his interviews with USA TODAY Sports, Santin often suggested ideas about how these different baseball problems in Latin America could be fixed. An international draft was, in Santin’s opinion, a possible remedy to the underage signing morass, as long as it was “done the right way.” “No way they will take the trainers out of the business,” he said. “At 6 years old, a kid is thinking about somebody to pitch to me, give me a glove. This guy would then bring a player to a trainer at age 13. You tell me, you think that guy is going to give that player to MLB? The mother and the player will do exactly what that trainer says. That trainer is God.
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