"Commissioner Bud Selig has given Major League Baseball's security division an open checkbook in an attempt to clean up off-field scandals in the Dominican Republic and other foreign countries. Major League Baseball has officers in the Dominican Republic who are cooperating with the FBI in at least two major scandals implicating the Chicago White Sox and Washington Nationals involving falsified birth records, kickback scandals and smuggling of performance-enhancing drugs that evaded security -- and former Sen. George Mitchell's investigation into the use of PEDs in MLB -- until recently (ESPN)."
If I was an owner I would be all for this. We have seen time and again players lying about their age, which helps them get better contracts. It seems that the Nationals, and White Sox are in the middle of this scandal. What remains to be seen is if they will actually go as far as to deport these players. Steroids are also playing a major part in this, as more and more players from DR are getting caught with steroids (or at least thought to be involved). It will be interesting to see if this will affect the number of foreign born players that will be signed by MLB teams.
Also, DP better hope his boy Dayan isn't involved....
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