MLB Ignored Dominican Republic

The Dominican government, through the Ministry of Sports, feels marginalized by the office of Major League Baseball (MLB, in English) in the country and hopes that the changes made in the same in the coming days there a better deal.

This was stated by Porfirio Veras Mercedes the national commissioner of professional baseball, whom he considered as "very interesting", the appointment of Sandy Alderson as the highest figure to direct the operations of MLB in the country.

The arrival of Alderson, who will offer a press conference tomorrow to provide details, follows a string unprecedented outbreak of scandals that echoed at all levels of baseball industry related to theft of money, altered birth certificates and falsifying documents .

"The biggest problem is that these researchers come and ignore the commissioner's office, which can solve many cases to get where is the truth, for here is that all complaints are received," Veras said Mercedes.

According to Mercedes, if researchers in MLB will be assisted by his help to submit to the Justice disrupters of documents and reduce the practice.

A study by a law firm and delivered to the MLB office in the country realizes that in 2009, 60% of investigations to sign players threw irregularities. In 2008, when the study took 232 samples, a total of 86 were irregular for 37%.

"We have been ignored, largely left the medium-size research. Rarely MLB investigator comes to talk with us and things will remain incomplete. Begin investigations and not conclude, I hope that this (Alderson) who come to meet, "said Mercedes.

In addition to the $ 39.9 million that all 30 major league clubs paid in signing rookie in 2009, two new academies opened their own organizations with an investment of over U.S. $ 20 million.

There are nine teams who have built complex owned and two are in process for completion of its facilities. Furthermore, the 29 teams that have operations in the country are investing between U.S. $ 250 thousand and $ 1 million a year in its operations, according to MLB.