Many of you have e-mailed me in the last couple of weeks asking for reaction on the Nationals’ situation regarding Esmailyn Gonzalez, who used a false identity and is really 23 years old, not 19 as he had claimed. I’m not much for knee-jerk reactions for anything regarding Latin America,...

Few teams can match the international scouting track presence of the Mariners. And nearly six years ago, in a span of three days in August, the Mariners landed two promising young Latin American middle infielders: Asdrubal Cabrera and Luis Valbuena. The Mariners have since traded both players to the...

Fernando Martinez is hurt—again. The Mets’ No. 1 overall prospect was enjoying a stellar campaign in winter ball, dominating the Dominican League during the regular season and hitting a pinch-hit home run in the Caribbean Series. But now Martinez, who turned 20 in October, is headin...

Milwaukee’s Double-A Huntsville club was a nightmare for Southern League pitchers in 2008. Huntsville routinely rolled out a prospect-heavy lineup, mixing in Matt LaPorta, Mat Gamel, Angel Salome, Michael Brantley, Lorenzo Cain and Cole Gillespie throughout the season. The final product was an...

Fernando Martinez’s winter-ball season may be over. But at least this time his absence is not being brought about by injury. The Venezuelan League’s Caracas Lions announced today that they have released the 20-year-old Martinez, who this offseason repeated as the Mets’ No. 1 prospe...

The Arizona Fall League is considered the place to be for prospects when the regular season ends, but the Caribbean leagues are peppered with plenty of prospects still playing ball. And leagues like the Venezuela League offer advantages over the AFL, one of which is the length of the season. While t...

With the Arizona Fall League and Hawaii Winter Baseball seasons finished—and in the HWB’s case, permanently—the Caribbean leagues take the over the winter ball spotlight. Those leagues can be extremely competitive with major leaguers, former big leaguers and advanced minor league p...

“I just didn’t think (the trade to the White Sox) would happen this soon. I was just talking to my parents. They’re a little upset about it, but I know it’s probably good for me, considering there’s a designated hitter [in the American League]. That’s another posi...

Talk about putting heavy weight on recent performance. After Brandon Wood’s .167/.259/.250 start in 13 games for Estrellas, the Dominican Winter League club has released Wood, according to Baseball America correspondent Bill Shaikin. "You’ve got to perform pretty much right off the p...

Waikiki 5, West Oahu 1 Waikiki won its first ever HWB league title on Sunday with a 5-1 victory over West Oahu. Waikiki catcher Buster Posey (Giants) finished off an outstanding winter campaign with a 2-for-3 night. Posey’s three-run homer in the seventh put the game away for the BeachBoys and...