http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-nationals-fakeagename&prov=ap&type=lgns
This story is crazy. Talk about your bad luck if you're the Nats.
This story is crazy. Talk about your bad luck if you're the Nats.
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Washington Nationals defrauded by top prospect
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happens with prospects from there all the time, miguel tejada was playing in america for more than 8 years before he came out and admitted to lying about his age and name. Im sure there are people in the bigs who are stars that use a fake name or age.. not a real big deal since its become so common place
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Studies by Bill James of the statistics of position players show that most peak at the age of 27. (This was in the pre-steroid era.) The peak five years tends to be 25 to 29 or 26 to 30. Teams use projections of a player's talent and development at a certain age to guess how good he will be in the future.
The point is obvious, a certain level of talent in a 20-year-old might make him a very good prospect but would tag a 16-year-old as a future hall-of-fame prospect. They seriously overpaid for his services based on a false age.
The point is obvious, a certain level of talent in a 20-year-old might make him a very good prospect but would tag a 16-year-old as a future hall-of-fame prospect. They seriously overpaid for his services based on a false age.
