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Orioles open baseball academy in the Dominican Republic

Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007 1:20 pm EST


The Baltimore Orioles are looking to improve an international scouting system widely considered among the worst in Major League Baseball and have agreed to an extended lease on a new baseball academy in the Dominican Republic, just east of the island's capital city of Santo Domingo. According to the Baltimore Sun, the facility, which is more than half-completed, will be in Boca Chica, between Santo Domingo and San Pedro de Macoris, where the Orioles currently run a Spartan operation that basically consists of two barracks and a field for 50 players.
Expected to be up and running by April 1, the new Orioles facility will have two full fields, will house 75 players and includes full lodging, classrooms and a kitchen. It is part of a complex being rented by five other teams
Source: Baltimore Sun
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