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About Joe Kehoskie

Joe Kehoskie (born January 18, 1973) is an American baseball consultant, executive, and entrepreneur who is often quoted in the media on baseball-related issues. Kehoskie has worked in professional baseball in a variety of capacities since 1984, formerly working in minor league baseball (1984–1994) and as a player agent (1996–2011).

Born: January 18th, 1973

Categories: Living people, Americans, Baseball executives, Sports figures

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Fidel Castro essentially forced these guys to leave Cuba. It wasn't really even a choice. It was either stay at home, be handed a broom and told 'have a nice life' or they could leave Cuba and continue playing baseball.
You take 5 percent of Contreras's $30 million, you're retired.
Joe Kehoskie
• On the potential monetary value of Cuban baseball players, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)
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It's the wild, wild West of baseball, and it just keeps getting wilder.
Joe Kehoskie
• Discussing the business of Cuban baseball defectors, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)
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[Chapman] is a strong candidate for being the fool’s gold of the current free-agent market.
There's at least half a billion dollars [worth] of baseball players in Cuba right now and probably a lot more.
In many if not most cases, Cuban players haven’t been busts so much as they’ve been systematically over-hyped during the signing process, which led to unrealistic expectations around Major League Baseball and in the media. The vast majority of Cuba’s truly elite players have either stayed in Cuba for their entire careers or left Cuba too late to have a meaningful MLB career.
Unfortunately, here in the Dominican, a lot of the time kids just quit school at 10, 11, 12 and play baseball full-time. It’s great for the kids who make it because they become superstars and [make] millions of dollars in the big leagues. But for 98 kids out of a hundred, it results in a kid who is 18, 19 with no education. So it’s kind of a win-lose here in the Dominican.

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