Former Dodgers reduction pitcher Dennis Cook dinner, who performed 15 years within the majors for 9 groups, has been named Poland's supervisor as they search to qualify for the 2026 World Baseball Traditional.
“I’m deeply honored and excited to steer the Polish Nationwide Baseball Workforce,” Cook dinner stated in an announcement on Friday. “Poland has a wealthy historical past and a promising future, and I’m dedicated to serving to elevate Polish baseball to new heights on the worldwide stage.”
This isn’t the primary time managing internationally for Cook dinner, who additionally managed Sweden in 2010. An all-conference outfielder on the College of Texas, Cook dinner instructed MLB.com in 2017 his authentic intention was to make the Swedish crew as 48- Outfielder of the 12 months, however ended up managing as a substitute.
Cook dinner additionally managed Greenville in 2023 within the Appalachian League, a collegiate summer season league. The primary place for the Polish crew is the European Baseball Championship this summer season, which Michael Clair defined on MLB.com.
Rimas Sports activities, the company began by star recording artist Unhealthy Bunny, is going through punishment from the MLB Gamers Affiliation, in response to a number of experiences.
From Britt Ghiroli at The Athletic, who broke the story on Friday:
A number of accounts from gamers and brokers implicate Rimas workers providing giant sums of cash, automobiles and different incentives prohibited in MLBPA agent laws to get gamers to modify businesses. Rimas is believed to have two licensed brokers, sources say, and different workers who sought to acquire agent standing at the moment are anticipated to be denied.
Alden Gonzalez, Jeff Passan, and Jorge Castillo at ESPN have extra, together with this assertion from the corporate:
“At Rimas Sports activities, we keep the best requirements of professionalism and integrity in our trade,” the corporate stated in an announcement. “Out of respect for an ongoing course of within the context of the MLBPA Agent Rules, we’ll chorus from making any feedback right now. We stay dedicated to persevering with to serve our clients with excellence.”
The Dodgers tie-in right here is that catcher Diego Cartaya is represented by Rimas Sports activities.
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