Yankees, Red Sox Hit By Dominican Bonus Scandal: Report

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YFSF found this 8/6/2008 on mvn.com [flag]
The skimming scandal involving Dominican baseball prospects has reached the scouting departments of the American League’s biggest rivals, as baseball continues probing how many scouts—never mind the infamous buscones (Dominican street agents)—are forcing prospects to kick portions of their signing bonuses back to those scouts, ESPN reported Tuesday morning .  ... [link]

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"It's Critical Now"
Published 8/6/2008 by IronHorse (YF) at YFSF
... The Yankees need one more accused-and-then-fired Dominican Republic-assigned scout to pull even with the Red Sox in most-corrupt-scouts-in-a-season; ...

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