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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Baseball America: Indians Prospect Faked Age, Identity

Major League Baseball has caught another high-profile prospect from the Dominican Republic misrepresenting his age and identity.

MLB’s latest catch is Indians shortstop Jose Osoria, who signed for $575,000 last year on July 2. Indians assistant general manager John Mirabelli confirmed that Osoria’s real name is Wally Bryan and that Bryan is 20 years old, three years older than he had presented himself. Bryan ranked as Cleveland’s No. 30 prospect entering the season.

“We still like his ability,” Mirabelli said. “We still like his talent. I’m not going to try to pretend there’s not a difference between 17 and 20. There certainly is in terms of projection, but the fact of the matter is he isn’t who he said he was.”

Bryan does look a lot older…

Repoz Posted: July 02, 2009 at 03:30 AM | 8 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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1. Bobby Bonilla's Annuity (Matt) Posted: July 02, 2009 at 04:27 AM (#3240022)

How do you go from Jose Osoria to Wally Bryan?

2. Vaux, A.B.D. Posted: July 02, 2009 at 04:29 AM (#3240024)

He's Italian, and his name was changed from Briani at Ellis Island?

3. Nathan Kunkel Posted: July 02, 2009 at 05:02 AM (#3240034)

how do you go from Wally to Jose?

there's more that we want to know, damn it....

4. Walt Davis Posted: July 02, 2009 at 08:08 AM (#3240052)

Osoria’s real name is Wally Bryan

And he's from Ames, Iowa.

And speaks only enough Spanish to order in a Mexican restaurant.

But anybody can make a mistake.

5. Argu!!!! SATAN!!!! (Sessile Fielder) Posted: July 02, 2009 at 08:27 AM (#3240055)

And he's from Ames, Iowa.

Weird, I made the same joke.

6. Nathan Kunkel Posted: July 02, 2009 at 05:20 PM (#3240534)

"Weird, I made the same joke."

How's that twitter thang working out for ya?

7. Argu!!!! SATAN!!!! (Sessile Fielder) Posted: July 02, 2009 at 05:29 PM (#3240559)

I don't use it for anything other than getting updates from baseball writers before their columns/blogs post and asking questions about stuff they're talking about. It's amazing how much more readily/quickly they'll respond to a tweet than to an email, sometimes.

8. bunyon Posted: July 02, 2009 at 05:37 PM (#3240574)

I've just written a letter to the Royals stating that I'm 28 and named Albert Pujols. If someone could send a confirming email, I'll give you 10%.

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