Smiley Saga Continues….

As I posted on here yesterday, Nationals top prospect Esmailyn “Smiley” Gonzalez, who’s real name is Carlos Daniel Alvarez, is actually 23 years old not 19. For those following this saga additional information has been published by the Washington Post.

Coverage from the Washington Post:
Natioanls Journal spoke with Baseball America regarding Smiley's "prospect status".
"I spoke yesterday with Baseball America executive editor Jim Callis about what happens now to Smiley the prospect. Just a month ago, BA ranked Smiley as the 10th-best prospect in the Washington organization. Given the new information about the player's age, Callis said, Alvarez would probably earn a ranking within the organization somewhere between No. 20 and No. 30. (BA, in its handbook, goes 30 deep with its rankings for every team.) In other words, Alvarez is a marginal prospect at best. His numbers from 2008, Callis said, "are meaningless."

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Here is a part from the Washington Post article titled Kasten: "I am angry. We've been defrauded."

"You know, 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 that came in and did this. This was a deliberate, premeditated fraud with a lot more to this story, and we are going to get to the bottom of it. There were many, many people involved in this premeditated fraud."

More Coverage at: Google News: Smiley Gonzalez