Getting to MLB is pretty tough, even if you’re a sought-after prospect in the minor leagues; less than 10% of MiLB players They get to debut in the Major Leagues at some point in their careers, and the percentage is even lower if you are a player from Latin America due to various factors. And for the Dominican Republic prospect, Fraidel Adriel Liriano Trinidad, being Dominican was exactly the reason why he couldn’t make it to MLB.
According to information from Diario Libre de República Dominicana, Liriano Trinidad has sued the Texas Rangers organization and Major League Baseball for the amount of 250 million dollars in damages and prejudices, in addition to breach of his contract by the organization of the Vigilantes for reasons that according to his lawyer Jonathan Peralta, qualifies as racism and xenophobia.
Peralta mentions that Liriano and the Rangers had agreed on a signature of one million 500 thousand dollars to be paid on July 2, 2020, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic, said payment was postponed to January 2021, which although the player had signed, the money was never awarded to the Dominican prospect by unilateral decision by the Rangers, who gave no explanation for their decision.
The lawyer attributes said act of the Rangers because Liriano is of “Latino, Dominican, poor and black origin”, in addition to the fact that according to him, the defendant team expected that Fraidel would submissively accept any proposal, which constitutes racial discrimination. evident”.
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