{"id":128229,"date":"2019-07-04T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=128229"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T12:56:00","slug":"two-youngsters-get-us5-million-bonuses-to-start-in-minor-league-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/04\/two-youngsters-get-us5-million-bonuses-to-start-in-minor-league-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Two youngsters get US$5 million bonuses to start in Minor League Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jasson-Dominguez-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128258\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jasson-Dominguez-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Jasson-Dominguez-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Jasson Dominguez \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Dominican 16-year olds cashed in signing MLB minor league contracts for upwards of US$5 million bonuses this week. Jasson Dom\u00ednguez (The Martian) with the New York Yankees, a new record for a Dominican prospect. Dom\u00ednguez will get a US$5.1 million and US$250,000 in potential scholarship money should he choose to further his education. The No. 2 prospect, The Oakland Athletics signed No. 2 international prospect, Robert Puason. Puason and Dom\u00ednguez trained at the teams&#8217; baseball academies in the Dominican Republic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read  more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/\/id\/27102677\/yanks-ink-top-prospect-martian\">ESPN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/dominicanos-encabezan-la-danza-de-los-millones-en-julio-2-BG13260472\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/Sports Illustrated\">Sports Illustrated <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/Sports Illustrated\">MLB<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 July 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Dominican 16-year olds cashed in signing MLB minor league contracts for upwards of US$5 million bonuses this week. Jasson Dom\u00ednguez (The Martian) with the New York Yankees, a new record for a Dominican prospect. Dom\u00ednguez will get a US$5.1 million and US$250,000 in potential scholarship money should he choose to further his education. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/04\/two-youngsters-get-us5-million-bonuses-to-start-in-minor-league-baseball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128259,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128229\/revisions\/128259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}