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SAN FRANCISCO -- The White Sox announced before Friday's game with the San Francisco Giants that they have fired three members of their Latin American scouting staff, including David Wilder , senior director of player personnel. [link]

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Scout’s Dishonour?
Published 5/18/2008 by Jeff Kallman at The MLB Source
... The club’s Latin operations continue with former major league shortstop Rafael Santana (the starting shortstop for the New York Mets’ 1986 World Series championship) overseeing those operations, with Williams “hav[ing] to assist more on the big-league side with amateur scouting for the upcoming draft and scouting major-league players on the Sox’ trading radar,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times. ...

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