Sharpe’s Peril release The international free agent signing period doesn’t begin for another 2 months, but it is always fun to keep track of the rumored signings and the mysterious top prospects. There is rarely much reliable information out there, and most of the info often comes by way of subscriber sites such as Baseball America and scout.com. However, there is a new blog called Dominican Baseball Universe (no relation to our site), whose writer appears to be very in touch with the Dominican amateur scene, that looks like it will have some good information on the potential amateur signings.
The writer for DBU, speaks highly of Mark Newman (the Yankees’ senior VP of baseball operations and scouting director) and the Yankees’ international scouting team as being among the best at what they do (along with the international scouting team from the Red Sox, Rangers, and Padres).
You know that someone here is well known because of the way people refer to them, Mark Newman over here is just Newman, people talk of him as he was their neighbor, some guys even think that Newman is living in the Dominican Republic, any day you can find Newman in his short shorts old NBA style talking in Spanish with just about anyone, even if the Yankees are the richest team in baseball you can’t say that they just sit down and let money talk, those guys do their jobs.
As the first piece of news, the writer for DBU is reporting that the Yankees will sign “super prospect” Gary Sanchez. I have no idea how credible this information is nor what type of prospect Sanchez actually is, but I will be checking in periodically to see if there is new news. It should be good reading, and hopefully there will be first-hand info.
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I hope its reliable. Assuming that it its, it’s good to know that yankees scouts are active and respected.
Now that they are testing for steroids the Domincan players are less dominant.
Anybody REALLY think it’s a coincidence that Pedro & PApi weren’t great in their early careers, suddenly were brilliant and then couldn’t play as well or stay healthy a year after the testing got tough?
Martinez just flamed out because he didn’t conserve himself too well and didn’t have a body that preserves his stuff as he ages… anyways…
Gary Sanchez 2 the Yanks!
I have been vacationing in the DR for years and Pedro, Papi and 100′s of others there used steroids for years.Everyone there knows it and laughs about it.
5’11 skinny 150 type kids on the Island and suddenly every player is 5’11 195.