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Following up on Gary Sheffield's remarks about the lack of African-American players in the Major Leagues, Torii Hunter felt the need to chime in with this remark captured on ESPN:
"You can go to Latin America and get that same talent as a black player in Compton and if he's in Compton he gets drafted in the first round he's going to get two million dollars," Hunter said on Fox Sports Radio. "If he doesn't pan out, you're out two million dollars but if you go to the Domincan, Cuba, or whatever and you can get a guy for two thousand dollars and he doesn't pan out you're only down two thousand dollars. I do agree that, you know 10 years from now you'll see no blacks, at all."Boy, I bet the Devil Rays wish they had that kind of information when they drafted David Price with the #1 overall pick yesterday. Figure three years in the minors and this guy is only going to have a six-year Major League career.
Looks like Dontrelle Willis, Curtis Granderson, and Josh Barfield better make hay now before their careers come to an abrupt end.
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He's right in the sense that there's no world draft. He's wrong in his line of thinking, though. If you want a U.S. player, you don't have any choice but to draft him.
With his logic, there would be no white players either. There would just be latino players because they aren't as expensive.
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