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I must admit I did not look at Beltre's career stats. No way I would have guessed he has been in the league 16 years with 395 HR's. Pretty impressive.

Didn't Beltre start out in US pro baseball at age 10 or something?

Wasn't Beltre actually younger than his listed official age when he first came up with the Dodgers? I could be mistaken.

Yes, he was 15, which led to the nullification of his contract and a one-year suspension of the Dodgers' Dominican Republic operations. The bigger question for me is how the Dodgers could have let Beltre walk after a year where he hit .334/.388/.629 with 48 homers and 121 Rbis. Could they not have topped 5 years, 64 mil?

Beltre did go on to be a bit of a bust in Seattle. However, I think that was part Safeco and part the pressure on him being "The Man" for the M's. Beltre is not a particularly strong, outgoing personality.

Yes, he was 15, which led to the nullification of his contract and a one-year suspension of the Dodgers' Dominican Republic operations. The bigger question for me is how the Dodgers could have let Beltre walk after a year where he hit .334/.388/.629 with 48 homers and 121 Rbis. Could they not have topped 5 years, 64 mil?

Beltre did go on to be a bit of a bust in Seattle. However, I think that was part Safeco and part the pressure on him being "The Man" for the M's. Beltre is not a particularly strong, outgoing personality.

That would totally be on Frank McCheap, he needed the money for a 3rd house in Malibu, some more hookers and a detective to follow his wife around.