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Melissa Segura: In international market, MLB teams are buying costly lottery tickets
Published: July 2, 2009
SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — Glance through the list of important dates that Major League Baseball issues every year. There’s Mother’s Day in May, Father’s Day in June and don’t forget the Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game on July 12. What the calendar omits, however, is a date that has become the focal point in the procurement of Latin American amateur free-agents: July 2, the first day that MLB teams can sign 16-year-old international free-agent prospects who will be 17 years old by Sept. 1 of the following year is as unnoticed in the U.S. as it is front-page news in places such as the Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
