league — is no good. “You’re better off working at Wal-Mart,” Gomez says. Players generally make between $2000 and $8000 per month in Mexico. The cap is $10,000. But the baseball free-
lancer says he’s realistic with the foreigners he helps bring south. “They are mostly realistic them- selves,” he says. “They know they are journey- men. Whenever new personnel come down, I tell them real quick: You could be here for seven weeks or seven years. Both happen. Some come down thinking they are going to play a couple weeks then get called back up. It hap- pens, but it’s rare.” He says there’s a stigma about Mexican baseball which “works against those that are playing in Mexico. Our players get cheated. ‘Ah, it’s Mexico,’ they say.
“Most people say
you’re going to play in Mexico League, they might not think it’s good money,” Martin says. “You come to this league, and it’s very nice. It’s estab- lished, with good stadi- ums, teams, and organiza- tions. It’s very comparable to the states.” Martin, who grew up
“There are other stadiums — Mexico City and Puebla — where the fans are really into the game. But we have more of them.”
It takes a good GM who can think outside the box to consider a player here. Generally, it’s like selling a used car to someone that wants a new car.”’ Gomez says that he
couldn’t cobble together
an informal living around baseball, as he’s done through Mexican baseball, in the U.S. “In MLB, there’s three sets of security to get into the locker room, and you have to have creden- tials. It’s like the Pentagon.”
Crafty pitchers Toros slugger, Dustin Martin, who was drafted by the New York Mets in 2006, finds Mexican baseball more competi- tive than he thought it would be.
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in Corpus Christi, Texas playing in leagues with many latinos agrees the talent level is AAA — the highest minor league level in the United States. “There are ex-big leagu- ers throughout the league,” the 32 year-old said. “The players are experienced and know how to play the game. There aren’t many errors, pitchers are crafty.” Asked about the
pocho factor, he answers, “I think it helped the league become more com- petitive” the slugger said.
“The backside of teams’ bullpens are stronger, and there is more [pitching] velocity.” In September 2015,
Diablos Rojos del Mexico, Tigres de Quintana Roo, Sultanes de Monterrey, and Oaxaca Warriors all left the Liga Mexicana in protest of the new rules. At a meeting of own-
ers, Diablos Rojos and Tigres owners (the for- mer is owned by Padres part-owner Alfredo Harp Helú) asked to discuss the cessation of recruitment of Mexican-American play- ers. Since the item was not on the agenda, other owners declined. The above-mentioned four team owners announced that they were leaving the league and left the meet- ing room. The president of the
league Pliny Escalante said the remaining 12 owners
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