Two More Scouts Fired
Yankees scouts reportedly involved in kickback investigation
The signing bonus scandal enveloping the Dominican Republic may have expanded Friday to the Yankees, who reportedly terminated the contracts of their director of Latin America operations as well as their Dominican Republic scouting director.
The Associated Press, quoting anonymous sources, reported Friday that the Yankees are no longer employing Carlos Rios or Ramon Valdivia. The report noted that the two are under investigation into a Major League Baseball probe in which Latin American players claim they were forced to give kickbacks to scouts from their contracts.
Rios was the Yankees director of Latin America operations and Valdivia their chief scout in the Dominican.
Efforts by Baseball America to reach Rios were unsuccessful.
The unregulated practices of signing players has coming under increasing scrutiny this summer, with kickbacks of bonuses from players and buscones to team scouts at the center of the MLB probe.
Friday's news of Rios and Valdivia comes in the wake of the White Sox firing farm director David Wilder in May and the Red Sox firing Dominican scouting supervisor Pablo Lantigua in July.
Yankees scouts reportedly involved in kickback investigation
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PrintThe signing bonus scandal enveloping the Dominican Republic may have expanded Friday to the Yankees, who reportedly terminated the contracts of their director of Latin America operations as well as their Dominican Republic scouting director.
The Associated Press, quoting anonymous sources, reported Friday that the Yankees are no longer employing Carlos Rios or Ramon Valdivia. The report noted that the two are under investigation into a Major League Baseball probe in which Latin American players claim they were forced to give kickbacks to scouts from their contracts.
Rios was the Yankees director of Latin America operations and Valdivia their chief scout in the Dominican.
Efforts by Baseball America to reach Rios were unsuccessful.
The unregulated practices of signing players has coming under increasing scrutiny this summer, with kickbacks of bonuses from players and buscones to team scouts at the center of the MLB probe.
Friday's news of Rios and Valdivia comes in the wake of the White Sox firing farm director David Wilder in May and the Red Sox firing Dominican scouting supervisor Pablo Lantigua in July.
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