Joe Kehoskie Quotes

Joe Kehoskie is an American baseball consultant, executive, and entrepreneur. He has worked in professional baseball in a variety of capacities since 1984, formerly working in minor league baseball and as a player agent .Kehoskie is often quoted in the media on baseball-related topics. He has made national TV appearances on ESPN , CBC , Al Jazeera English, and PBS , and been interviewed on ESPN Radio, CBC Radio, and NPR . Wikipedia  

✵ 18. January 1973
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Famous Joe Kehoskie Quotes

“[Chapman] is a strong candidate for being the fool’s gold of the current free-agent market.”

On $30 million Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman's readiness for Major League Baseball, from the New York Times article "Risks Seen in Signing Cuban Defector" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/sports/baseball/04chapman.html by Jack Curry (3 December 2009)

“It's the wild, wild West of baseball, and it just keeps getting wilder.”

Discussing the business of Cuban baseball defectors, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" http://apse.dallasnews.com/contest/2000/writing/all.investigative.third1.html by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)

“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.”

On Cuban baseball defectors, from the PBS documentary Stealing Home http://www.pbs.org/stealinghome/transcript.html (18 June 2001)

“There's at least half a billion dollars [worth] of baseball players in Cuba right now and probably a lot more.”

On the amount of baseball talent in Cuba, from the Vanity Fair article "Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution" http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/07/cuban_baseball200807 by Michael Lewis (July 2008)

“You take 5 percent of Contreras's $30 million, you're retired.”

On the potential monetary value of Cuban baseball players, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" http://apse.dallasnews.com/contest/2000/writing/all.investigative.third1.html by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)

“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.”

On the success rate and perception of Cuban baseball defectors in MLB, from the Miami Herald article "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins" http://web.archive.org/web/20120218180037/http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/12/v-fullstory/2636817/yoenis-cespedes-may-be-the-great.html by Clark Spencer (12 February 2012)

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