Indians Prospect Fakes Age and Name

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Indians Prospect Faked Age, Identity

By Ben Badler
July 1, 2009

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Major League Baseball has caught another high-profile prospect from the Dominican Republic misrepresenting his age and identity.

MLB's latest catch is Indians shortstop Jose Osoria, who signed for $575,000 last year on July 2. Indians assistant general manager John Mirabelli confirmed that Osoria's real name is Wally Bryan and that Bryan is 20 years old, three years older than he had presented himself. Bryan ranked as Cleveland's No. 30 prospect entering the season.

"We still like his ability," Mirabelli said. "We still like his talent. I'm not going to try to pretend there's not a difference between 17 and 20. There certainly is in terms of projection, but the fact of the matter is he isn't who he said he was."

Even though Bryan misrepresented his age and his identity, Mirabelli said that MLB has not suspended Bryan, who has been playing with the Indians' Dominican Summer League club. However, given that Bryan already falsified his documents, it seems unlikely that he will be able to enter the United States any time soon.

Bryan passed his investigations last year, but he is one of many players MLB has been reinvestigating at the request of the U.S. Consulate in the wake of the Esmailyn Gonzalez/Carlos Alvarez scandal with the Nationals. Industry insiders believe the number of players under suspicion is at least 70 and expect several other recent Dominican signings to be caught soon as well. MLB already gave a one-year suspension to a Dominican third baseman formerly known as Jefri Pena, who signed with the Padres last August for $325,000, for misrepresenting his identity and shaving four years off of his age.

Awesome....

 

[jlj3184]

A Dominican player faked his age? Color me unsurprised. Even after the investigation, I still don't believe this dude is 20. He's already proved adept at faking his age once. I'm setting the over/under at 25.5.

 

[PIP]

That Cuban defector (Chapman) who has all of MLB a rage right now-- states he's only 21... Left handed Strasburg type of pitcher...

He's probably 28....

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

real name is Wally Bryan

Gotta love a Dominican-born person with one of the whitest names ever, changing to the more realistic Jose Osoria. It must have been the mad use of hair products that raised an eye.

 

[JayP146]

Since when do Dominican-born people have names like Wally Bryan?

Seriously now.

 

[PIP]

Since when do Dominican-born people have names like Wally Bryan?

Seriously now.

Yeah, really...

There's this Indian/Pakastani kid that works at the Rascal House pizza place by CSU... Funny dude, about 18 years old with a huge mustache (you can tell he's had it since he was 9)-- olive colored dude with the pants that stop at his shins...

At any rate, his name tag says "Charlie"-- now, there's no way possible his name is Charlie.. It's probably "Paneesh" or something like that..

I went up to him the other day to order a piazza and went "Charlie, huh ?" and I swear to Bob, he looks at me and goes: "That's right, my name is Charlie, you have a fucking problem with it, my friend ?" :chuckles:

This kid was about 5 foot 7 and about 140 pounds... I would have snapped his neck so damn quick, but he didn't care.. So, bottom line is this, if you run into Racal House Charlie at CSU, don't fuck with him...

 

[CavsFinals2016]

Yeah, really...

There's this Indian/Pakastani kid that works at the Rascal House pizza place by CSU... Funny dude, about 18 years old with a huge mustache (you can tell he's had it since he was 9)-- olive colored dude with the pants that stop at his shins...

At any rate, his name tag says "Charlie"-- now, there's no way possible his name is Charlie.. It's probably "Paneesh" or something like that..

I went up to him the other day to order a piazza and went "Charlie, huh ?" and I swear to Bob, he looks at me and goes: "That's right, my name is Charlie, you have a fucking problem with it, my friend ?" :chuckles:

This kid was about 5 foot 7 and about 140 pounds... I would have snapped his neck so damn quick, but he didn't care.. So, bottom line is this, if you run into Racal House Charlie at CSU, don't fuck with him...

Damn, I'm an Indian and I'm 5'11'' and 140 pounds. I just don't get it, even in America we're twigs. I once knew a guy named, Bupender...he told people to call him Bruce.