This captures most of it. This twitter account is publishing all the excerpts from the indictment.
Washington post.
Girls not brides.
Maybe this doesn't move the cultural needle immediately. But my hope is since baseball is such a prime currency on the island, that boys will see Wander throw away all those millions and selfishly think no underage girl is worth sacrificing riches when they are in the same position. Not necessarily an altruistic approach, but incremental progress in reducing the girls affected by pedo activity is a start...
Too many men like to have sex with children. Everywhere. If you think we don’t talk about it enough or are sad it will fade from the news, and it’s important to you, you should talk about it more. There is vile and foul shit going on right under our noses everywhere everyday. This is how most people deal with it. They pay attention to Wander Franco or Jerry Sandusky, get twisted into knots for a day wondering how much Joe Paterno was involved instead of giving much of a shit about the underlying problem, and move on with their days after their internet performances,* while the millions of girls and boys walking around with traumas try to do the best they can. Hopefully, some can afford therapy or good insurance, because there’s no way most people here or anywhere else are going to do shit for them, other that some internet tut-tutting about the Joe Paternos and Wander Francos of the world. You should be mad and sad and it is good you can see the forest. I am sure there are charities in the DR (or Thailand or Boston or wherever) that try to fight child abuse or support victims. That is probably the most direct way you can help. Most of us — me included — still feel mostly powerless and do nothing other than try to make the little spheres of the world where we have some control a little better.
I'm pretty sure it's unprecedented for someone that good, that young, who already showed the talent at the MLB level to suddenly and completely end it. That's not even factoring in the shameful reason for it.
You’re correct. All Star in 2018 and 2019 with a 2.18 ERA and 65 saves over those two seasons. Never played again. He got deported to Venezuela last December.
The answer here could have been Cesar Cedeno. He was 22 and coming off two straight seasons of OPS+ over 150 and 50+ SBs when he shot his girlfriend to death in a hotel room. But it was ruled an accident and he was fined $100. He played 13 more years. He was later arrested twice for assaulting another girlfriend.
Holy shit, I never knew that despite being old enough to remember him playing when I was a little kid.
53.1 bWAR for his career, 49.5 of which came before turning 30. For comparison, Sandy Koufax also had 53.1 bWAR for his career, with 45 coming before he turned 30. (Not that I'm suggesting that they should be viewed anywhere near equal as players, just thought it was funny/interesting enough to point out.)
I went to a baseball camp/school in FL for a few weeks in 1976. Cedeno was by far the most common selection of "young player who will be a Hall of Famer someday" among the assembled 14-18 yr olds. He was 25 and could do it all.
As a kid in the early 70's growing up in SW CT my introduction to baseball was watching the Mets' broadcasts on WOR. I still recall how whenever they played the Astros, Kiner/Nelson/Murphy would rave about Cedeno's all around skills, and it would usually lead into a discussion of how Cedeno and Bobby Bonds were the two players most likely to succeed Willie Mays as best player in baseball for the next decade.
