Change in Draft May Halt Troubles ; Prospect Fraud Is Part of Issue

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Recent cases of fraud and potential corruption involving the signing of baseball players in Latin America have cast new attention to the possibility of a worldwide draft in major league baseball.

Increasingly, there is a call for baseball and its union to adopt an international draft in the next collective bargaining agreement in 2012 as a way to streamline and clean up the way players from outside North America are acquired, particularly in talent-rich places like the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. Moreover, supporters say a draft would provide an equal playing field among teams that recruit in Latin America.

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Change in Draft May Halt Troubles ; Prospect Fraud Is Part of Issue

"We have always claimed that one of the best ways to deal with this was to have a worldwide draft," said Arturo J. Marcano, a former legal advisor to the Venezuelan Baseball Players Association and critic of baseball's system of signing foreign...

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