In a press release sent to all the print and radio and television media outlets, the Dominican National Federation of Professional Baseball Players announced the resignation of former Cincinnati Reds star Mario Melvin Soto as president of the entity. The resignation comes after pressure from a group of players demanding that Soto step down.
The press communiqué also says that any attempt hold elections will be in violation of the agreements reached on December 13 during talks moderated by the Dominican Professional Baseball League (Lidom) and the Player’s Federation. Signing the communiqué are Miguel Dilone, George Bell, Jose (Mackey) Moreno and Adriano Rodriguez.
As a result of all of this, George Bell the current vice-president of the Federation will take over as president-pro-tem until elections are held next 15 November 2020. Apparently, all of the agreements between the group of dissidents and the federation as moderated by Lidom needed to be approved by the Board of Directors of the Federation, something that did not come to pass. And the new leadership of the federation will now move to be heard in court.
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El Nacional
Diario Libre
7 January 2019
