Pirates: MLB to discipline Latin American scouting head
The Pittsburgh Pirates say Major League Baseball intends to discipline their director of Latin American scouting for rules violations, and the team announced it will not renew Rene Gayo’s contract when it expires next month.
The Pirates said in a statement Wednesday they have a “profound disappointment in the breach of trust that was the subject of MLB’s investigation.”
The Athletic reported Gayo accepted an improper payment.
Pittsburgh says “we concluded that we needed to move in a new and different direction with our Latin American scouting leadership.”
Gayo, 50, was in his 14th season Customized Baseball Jerseys with the Pirates after working for Cleveland as an area scout from 1993-2000 and as director of international scouting and Latin American cross-checker through 2003. He signed Willy Taveras, Edward Mujica, Danys Baez and Jhonny Peralta for the Indians, and Gregory Polanco and Starling Marte for the Pirates
Gayo worked as a part-time scout for the Pirates from 1989-92 and Texas in 1993. In his lone professional season as a player, Gayo appeared in 12 games for the rookie level Gulf Coast Reds in 1987.
Shohei Ohtani: Mariners make trade, raise available money for Japan’s two-way star
The Seattle Mariners have gained more flexibility if they want to try to sign star Japanese pitcher/outfielder Shohei Ohtani.
They acquired an additional $500,000 for their international signing bonus pool from the Chicago White Sox in a trade for Brazilian right-hander Thyago Vieira.
Ohtani, a 23-year-old right-hander, would be limited to a minor league contract with a signing bonus under Major League Baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement. The trade Customized Football Jerseys announced Thursday increases the Mariners’ available money for a signing bonus to $1,557,500. Seattle has spent $3,942,500 on bonuses in the signing year that started July 2 from a pool that rose to $5.5 customized hockey jerseys million with the trade.
The 24-year-old Vieira made his major league debut with a scoreless inning against Baltimore on Aug. 14, his only big league appearance. He was 2-3 customized basketball jerseys with two saves and a 3.72 ERA in 29 games this year for Double-A Arkansas and 0-1 with two saves and a 4.58 ERA in 12 games for Triple-A Tacoma.
Chicago is restricted to a maximum $300,000 signing bonus because it exceeded its pool in a previous year under the old labor contract.
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