Originally Posted by
BCR
The strange part is everyone knew this from the start. He dropped down in the draft because no scouts believed he was the age reported.
Dan Lebetard dated a woman who worked for the Marlins for years. He point blank said she knows him to be older then he claimed. The club had proof when they tried to sign him and looked at the end of the deal as lost money anyway. When I searched it, it was in 2011, but strangely, they had Marlins former GM on Thursday and he was talking about it and said no executive in the league think he’s claimed age. Lebatard acted like it was news, even though he had reported same thing on his show a decade earlier, and it was known long before that. He recently married different girl so maybe he didn’t want to talk about his saying it years ago.
I used to say it to willie back on DD when he played for Cardinals, so it was known then. I’ve always been kind of shocked there wasn’t some breach of contract suit given the $, but probably hard to prove and a bad look in a league full of Dominican guys.