{"id":46945,"date":"1998-01-13T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-01-13T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/new-all-time-high-bonus-for-baseball-recruit\/"},"modified":"1998-01-13T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-01-13T01:43:56","slug":"new-all-time-high-bonus-for-baseball-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/01\/13\/new-all-time-high-bonus-for-baseball-recruit\/","title":{"rendered":"New all-time high bonus for baseball recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year old Ricardo Ar&aacute;mboles (6 feet 4 inches tall, 195 lbs.) could become the baseball recruit to receive the highest bonus for joining U.S. professional baseball. Ar&aacute;mboles, a right-handed pitcher, leaves tomorrow for Florida to participate in the Major League draft. One of his coaches told the Listin Diario that he could sign for US$5 million dollars, which would be a new record for Major League baseball. He is represented by Rob Plummer, who has forecast Ar&aacute;mboles could become the next Pedro Mart&iacute;nez, the Dominican pitcher who is today the best paid baseball player in the Major Leagues. Ar&aacute;mboles was born in Sabana Perdida in Santo Domingo on 4 December 1981. He had originally been signed for a US$5,000 bonus by the Florida Marlins, but Plummer determined the contract was illegal because Ar&aacute;mboles was only 14 at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen-year old Ricardo Ar&aacute;mboles (6 feet 4 inches tall, 195 lbs.) could become the baseball recruit to receive the highest bonus for joining U.S. professional baseball. Ar&aacute;mboles, a right-handed pitcher, leaves tomorrow for Florida to participate in the Major League draft. One of his coaches told the Listin Diario that he could sign for US$5 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/01\/13\/new-all-time-high-bonus-for-baseball-recruit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46945"}],"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=46945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}