Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy (DRSEA), Inc.

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Albert Pujols Announced As Manager of Leones del Escogido As teams prepare for the upcoming LIDOM season, the Leones del Escogido announced their coaching staff, headlined by manager Albert Pujols.

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'Slam dunk first-ballot guy': Beltré's Texas tenure sealed HOF status ARLINGTON -- If you ask Michael Young, he knew Adrian Beltré would be in the Hall of Fame pretty early on. He wasn’t positive when Beltré was playing for the Rangers’ division rival Mariners. But as soon as Beltré stepped into Texas’ clubhouse, it was clear.

With five Dominican pitchers starring in the Opening Day baseball games, the 2024 Major League Baseball season got underway last Thursday, 25 March 2024.

There were 108 Dominican players on Major League rosters as the season started, and this number was only exceeded a few years back when there were 110 teams from the Dominican Republic on the rosters.

More than 25% of all professional, major-league, ballplayers are foreign-born, and the list is led, by far, by Dominicans. Venezuela is second with just over half of the Dominican total at 58 players.

Overall, 264 of the 949 players on major league rosters and injured reserve lists are from countries or territories outside of the 50 states of the United States.

As anyone who is familiar with professional baseball will know, it is the Hispanic players from the Americas and the Asian players from Japan and Korea that add that special bit of gusto to America’s national pastime.

After Venezuela, baseball players from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama add to the Latin element in MLB baseball. However, Canada, Curacao, and Aruba are also present, as are players from Brazil, Germany, Honduras, Nicaragua, and South Africa. 245 of the 264 foreign-born players are from the Americas

Major League Baseball announced the Dominican Republic is the country outside of the United States with the most players in the rosters of MLB season 2024 opening games in the United States.

The season officially opens on Thursday, 28 March 2024 in stadiums across the United States, but two early games will be held when the Dodgers and Padres of California play in South Korea on Wednesday and Thursday.

MLB reports that among the 11 Latin American pitchers chosen to start for their teams, five are from the Dominican Republic, thus making it the country with the highest representation.

Diario Libre has reported 31 Dominican ball players are on the rosters of the MLB teams for opening day. Only seven teams will not have Dominicans on their opening rosters.

MLB comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.

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CBS Sports reported that Dominican pitcher Framber Valdez was in “cruise control” all the evening as he took just 93 pitches to collect all 27 outs for the Houston Astros vs the Cleveland Guardians. The game ended HOU 2, CLE 0. Valdez is the first lefty in Astros history to throw a no-hitter.

CBS Sports reported: “According to Statcast, the Guardians did not put a single ball on play with better than a 50/50 chance of going for a hit based on exit velocity and launch angle. Only five balls in play had even a 30% chance of going for a hit.”

The Dominican Republic is a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code. A former deputy Minister of Sports, Marcos Diaz was re-elected in October 2021 as chair of the eighth session of the Conference of Parties (COP8) Bureau to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Convention against Doping in Sport at the gathering in Paris. Diaz is a former presidential candidate for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and had chaired the seventh session of the Conference of Parties Bureau, running from 2020 to 2021.

But he has not been able to make inroads into stopping the negative effects of a widespread practice of use of toxic performance-enhancing subjects in the world of baseball training in the Dominican Republic.

Now, after Diario Libre once again released findings of an investigative report into the usage of steroids and other performance-enhancing substances by young baseball prospects, Diaz tells how things are and why in an interview with Diario Libre: "The state has been irresponsible in regulating the business," he stated. He was referring to the billion-dollar baseball training system operating in the Dominican Republic to produce the talents for Major League Baseball.

Marcos Diaz told Diario Libre that the root of the problem is that baseball in the Dominican Republic lacks doping control unlike sports organized in sports federations that are subject to international Olympic system anti-doping controls.

In the interview, he said the situation is "most similar to human trafficking."

Diario Libre reports that the long-standing issue of steroids in Dominican baseball remains without significant variation in the Dominican Republic.

The newspaper first published a series of reports in 2019 (Dirty Play – Jugada Sucia) written by journalists Tania Molina and Mariela Mejía on the doping issue and its effects on minors and players in general. The public health or sports authorities did not take any corrective actions.

Diario Libre reporter Nathanael Pérez Neró reported on 28 April 2023 on the alarming pattern of acute renal failure in adolescents related to the use of steroids.

"The use of doping substance in baseball transcends the sports and is a public health problem," says the president of the UNESCO international convention against doping in sport, Marcos Diaz.

Diaz explains that sports organized in federations are somewhat more protected given the Dominican Republic is a signatory to the World Anti-Doping Code and is therefore regulated by the World Anti-Doping agency. The local counterpart is the National Anti-Doping Agency of the Dominican Republic.

"In a nutshell, everything that is federated sport has a control and oversight structure," he said.

"However, professional baseball and the structure binding professional sports is not a signatory of the code, therefore, those supervisory and regular bodies as the National Anti-Doping Agency, do not have in their spectrum the competence to regulate professional sports," he adds.

Under this situation, he maintains that the controls are the responsibility of governmental entities.

Diaz told Diario Libre now says that historically there has been an irresponsibility on the part of the governmental entities in demanding controls for baseball.

He explained that doping tests are carried out regularly to athletes practicing sports organized in federations. He says this is unlike what happens in non-federated professional sports, Major League Baseball, and any entity linked to professional baseball, including the Dominican Professional Baseball League (Lidom), the baseball academies, the farms, the trainers. "All lack a control system, therefore, the only regulatory capacity would fall on government entities," concludes Diaz.

He went further and mentions that there are also no controls either over schooling, what happens to school dropouts, the business and the signing of untimely contracts that are not under supervision.

"In a forum in Washington, D.C., I defined (this situation) as the most similar to human trafficking," he told Diario Libre. And he stresses: "The state has been irresponsible in regulating the business to guarantee that it does not have a negative social result, as we are seeing right now with doping."

Investigative journalist Alicia Ortega dedicated a recent El Informe investigative report to the tragedy of teenagers now facing life-long sentences of damaged organs due to the usage of steroids and other toxic performance-enhancing substances recommended by their trainers.

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Astros Star Surprises Children in the Dominican Republic Houston Astros starting pitcher Framber Valdez made a huge gesture in his native Dominican Republic.

Dear Friends of the DRSEA,

The Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy has been inactive for more than two years after the pandemic hit the Dominican Republic hard. The country in many ways is still recovering but the DRSEA is ready to again pursue its main objective of promoting the value of education as well as increase educational opportunities and support for young Dominican baseball players.

Our first event as we relaunch will be in January with the distribution of school supplies to some needy students.

The DRSEA’s focus beginning in 2023 will be to identify Dominican baseball players who already meet NCAA academic standards to qualify for scholarships and prepare them to take the SAT and pass an English proficiency test. We plan on starting with 15-20 students and have already started our search for these individuals.

As a member of the DRSEA, I am making an end-of-the-year appeal, asking your support in the form of a donation to the effort, hoping that you will reach into your hearts and pockets to help in any way you can in assisting the DRSEA in 2023 as we relaunch our operations.

Even the smallest contribution of $5, $10, $25 or $50 (more if you are able) can make a difference here, which is why I am asking you to make a contribution to the Dominican Republic Sports & Education Academy (DRSEA), a 501(c)3 organization. We need people like you to embrace the DRSEA as their own. We all have a responsibility to help those less fortunate; I hope that you share that obligation. More information is available on our website, www.drsea.org, where you can also make your donation VIA PAYPAL.

I thank you in advance for your support.

Charles S. Farrell

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Major League Baseball team announces new Dominican facility Santo Domingo.- MLB.com on Tue. said that just a few weeks after general manager Mike Elias, who took the reins of the Baltimore Orioles’ baseball operations department in late 2018, plans to upgrade the team’s training facilities in the Dominican Republic began to hatch. It said that given the ...

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Abinader urges Dominican ball players to invest in their country La Romana.- President Luis Abinader on Tuesday urged Major League Baseball players and famous Dominican figures to invest in the country, promising them all the support of his government. The president assured that today the country is moving towards economic recovery even in the midst of a pandemic...

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