The Biz of Baseball: Brown: MLB Should Come Clean on Dirty Dominican Summer League Players

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It’s far too easy to say that when you can’t disclose names due to legal matters. That doesn’t mean MLB should have never addressed the issue.

The league should have been proactive and made the reason for the non-disclosures public. Instead, they simply started a parade of near daily suspension announcements. There should have been some warning. Instead it looks like some dirty little secret, especially against the backdrop of recent skimming issue facing the league that impacts players out of the Caribbean and South America.

So, from here forward, the number of PED suspensions should be measured against this shift. It’s simply prospects, yes. It’s not players within the union, yes. It is, however, supposed to be part of MLB’s attempts to remove the shadow of PEDs from the sport. If MLB wants to be taken seriously about that effort, they should have been upfront, instead of keeping this major minor league secret.