{"id":78020,"date":"2026-08-28T17:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/mlb-suspends-dominican-prospect-after-age-fraud-plot-involving-fake-grave\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:55:37","slug":"mlb-suspends-dominican-prospect-after-age-fraud-plot-involving-fake-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/mlb-suspends-dominican-prospect-after-age-fraud-plot-involving-fake-grave\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB suspends Dominican prospect after age-fraud plot involving fake grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Report: player posed as nearly two years younger<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Scheme allegedly included fake grave and records<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>$2.8m agreement with Guardians was canceled<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A once-prized prospect from the Dominican Republic has been suspended by Major League Baseball after a league investigation revealed the player was part of an elaborate plot to portray him \u2060as nearly two years younger than he actually was, ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/49754483\/sources-mlb-suspends-dominican-prospect-age-fraud-plot\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The age-fraud plot included extreme efforts by the player\u2019s handler such as falsifying school and medical records, faking birth and death certificates \u2060and even staging a gravesite, per \u2060the report.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/28\/mlb-dominican-prospect-age-fraud-david-severino-guardians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: player posed as nearly two years younger Scheme allegedly included fake grave and records $2.8m agreement with Guardians was canceled A once-prized prospect from the Dominican Republic has been suspended by Major League Baseball after a league investigation revealed the player was part of an elaborate plot to portray him \u2060as nearly two years &#8230; <a title=\"MLB suspends Dominican prospect after age-fraud plot involving fake grave\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/mlb-suspends-dominican-prospect-after-age-fraud-plot-involving-fake-grave\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MLB suspends Dominican prospect after age-fraud plot involving fake grave\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}