WaPo: Stan Kasten and the Player to Be Named Later

“I’ve known about this coming for the last couple weeks, I got a heads-up a few weeks ago. I received confirmation from MLB yesterday formally that the player that we thought was Esmailyn Gonzalez was not, he has some other name. And I’m not exactly sure how to refer to him so for now I’ll just call him The Player To Be Named Later. But his birthday is November 1985, and he’s not Esmailyn Gonzalez, 19, he’s someone else. I think he will go by Carlos Alvarez, but I’m not sure, and he’s 23.

“To say I’m disappointed doesn’t begin to describe how I feel. I’m angry. I am very angry. We’ve been defrauded. And make no mistake, this wasn’t a college kid with a fake ID to come in and do this. This was a deliberate, premeditated fraud with a lot more to this story, and we are gonna get to the bottom of it. There were many many people involved in this premeditated fraud….

“Now this is very important, you need to know this, this was not a teenager who walks in with his college ID and lays his card on the table and signs a contract. This was an elaborate, premeditated scheme no teenager concocted, and no teenager executed this fraud. There were a number of people involved in it. When you guys learn—you won’t today, but soon you will—when you learn the length to which these participants went to perpetrate this fraud, you’re gonna be amazed. Falsified hospital documents, falsified school documents, other family members changing their identities, bribes were paid, really elaborate stuff….I can assure you, this is gonna have serious repercussions. I have people examining all possible avenues of recourse, with regard to any legal and financial concerns.”