Eight Rangers prospects facing charges after masturbating a teammate in hazing incident

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Eight Texas Rangers prospects were questioned by police in the Dominican Republic after a video showed a group of players sexually assaulting an underage teammate in a hazing incident that targeted players new to the team’s Dominican complex, sources familiar with the case told Yahoo Sports.

While prosecutors in the Dominican Republic have yet to press charges for the alleged assault, they told the court they intend to charge at least four players who held down a teammate and masturbated him, sources told Yahoo Sports.

Among those expected to be charged are the younger brother of Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor, also named Rougned, and Yohel Pozo, a top catching prospect, both 19 years old. The players facing potential charges have been told not to leave the country, according to sources.

Video of the alleged assault, which took place toward the end of October, was captured and posted on Snapchat, according to sources. A 10-second clip of video, obtained by Yahoo Sports, shows the alleged victim in a Rangers shirt and Rangers shorts laying on a bed with his arms held behind his back and his legs pinned down. At least four men are seen in addition to the alleged victim, whose penis is exposed, grabbed and maneuvered underneath a hand towel. All of the men in the video, including the alleged victim, are seen laughing.

The alleged assault was one of a number of hazing incidents of Venezuelan and Colombian players, some of whom were younger than 18, according to sources. More tenured players shaved the head of at least one new player and forced at least one other to take his clothes off, and sources said police are investigating at least one more allegation of forced masturbation.

The players were questioned around Nov. 9 after the Rangers informed Dominican police of the alleged incident at their complex in Boca Chica, D.R., where their two Dominican Summer League teams play and players from across Latin America train. The Rangers have been one of the most successful teams in Latin America over the past decade, grooming some of their franchise cornerstones at the complex.

The Rangers reported the alleged assault immediately after a staff member in the Dominican Republic was told of it by a player not involved, and Major League Baseball opened an investigation into the alleged assault, as Fox Sports first reported late last week. MLB, which placed the four players facing potential charges on administrative leave, declined comment.

In a statement to Yahoo Sports, the Rangers said: “The Texas Rangers became aware of an incident at our Academy in the Dominican Republic and we acted promptly to open an investigation. We have reported the incident and are cooperating fully with Major League Baseball and the authorities in the Dominican Republic. With this being an ongoing investigation, we will have no further comment at this time.”
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WTF. Hazing has devolved quite a bit since I was that age. Worst I ever got was a towel whipping in the locker room.
 
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This is the weirdest hazing incident since the Baltimore Bash a few years back...
 
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This hazing is weird, but a quick google informed me that not only does Rougned Odor have a younger brother named Rougned Odor, but also an uncle Rouglas Odor who has two kids named Rouglas Odor. Do these people just not understand the point of first names? Is it like a village wide thing? National?
 
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shaggydog2000 said:
This hazing is weird, but a quick google informed me that not only does Rougned Odor have a younger brother named Rougned Odor, but also an uncle Rouglas Odor who has two kids named Rouglas Odor. Do these people just not understand the point of first names? Is it like a village wide thing? National?
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That's nothing. George Foreman has five sons. George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, George VI and a daughter Georgetta.
 
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So what you’re telling me is Rougned Odor’s younger brother, Rougned Odor, was among 8 people who jacked off an under-age guy on camera as a hazing goof.
 
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Curt S Loew said:
That's nothing. George Foreman has five sons. George Jr., George III, George IV, George V, George VI and a daughter Georgetta.
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My little sister went to (private) school with his daughter Natalie. They were on the same basketball team. I think her middle name was Georgina. The boys all went by other names, not George in practice. And yes, all her teachers got little Foreman grills as Christmas gifts. He gave out those things like Pez I guess. But I don't know anything about them jacking off underage boys in dorms. Maybe Natalie but I didn't hear that specifically.
 
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shaggydog2000 said:
My little sister went to (private) school with his daughter Natalie. They were on the same basketball team. I think her middle name was Georgina. The boys all went by other names, not George in practice. And yes, all her teachers got little Foreman grills as Christmas gifts. He gave out those things like Pez I guess. But I don't know anything about them jacking off underage boys in dorms. Maybe Natalie but I didn't hear that specifically.
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Wow. And you still wondered about the first name thing? You would kind of have to go by different names. I hear Rougned goes by Jack.
 
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The kids on my high school's hockey team used to have a "tradition" called The Oreo where multiple guys would jack off on a cookie and then make the freshmen eat it.
 
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Ookie Cookie is a bit different than holding someone down and jerking them off, I think. It's still pretty fucking gross hazing (and not unique to your high school) but I'm not sure it classifies as sexual assault or at least not the same degree. Someone may correct me on this, but I don't believe any of the kids that got caught doing that at Andover a few years ago faced assault charges.
 
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Every time Rubén Rivera came to the plate, the announcer would tell the story of his theft of Jeter's bat and glove

Too bad Vin Scully retired before Rougned Odor got to the big leagues
 
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