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    New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    This sounds like it will help every teams farm system.
    http://www.baseballamerica.com/today...int262999.html
    New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues
    By J.J. Cooper and Chris Kline
    December 13, 2006

    A bill headed to President Bush's desk is expected to make life easier for foreign minor leaguers and will allow major league organizations to bring more players into the United States.

    The bill, which is expected to be signed into law before the end of the year, will shift minor league baseball players from the H-2B visa to the P-1 classification, which is set aside for internationally recognized athletes and entertainers. In the past, minor leaguers were not considered "internationally recognized," which forced them to get H-2B season workers visas. That became a problem in 2005 as demand for seasonal farm and resort workers began to outstrip the limit of 65,000 visas set aside for that category.

    The high demand for visas left a number of players unable to get into the United States and forced them to either sit out the season or play in the Dominican Summer League. The problem was reduced in 2006, but teams still had to be careful as to how they allocated their limited number of visas.

    If minor league players qualify for P-1 visas, teams will be able to bring more foreign players to the United States. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) wrote the bill with help from Major League Baseball's operations staff.

    "We've been working on this with the Players Association and Minor League Baseball for several years," Major League Baseball spokesman Pat Courtney said. "We're very pleased with the result."

    Deciding how to distribute a team's visas has been a constant part of a farm director's job. But now that problem may be eliminated.

    "This bill was just passed. We're waiting to see how it will be interpreted by the day-to-day staff," Courtney said. "But our understanding is that (a limit on the number of visas) won't be an issue."

    It also may help Canadian players in the draft.

    "From the perspective up here, anything that opens up the number of visas will benefit Canadian players," Baseball Canada national team coach Greg Hamilton said. "If you're drafting in a later round, do you want to deal with restrictive visa issues? Anytime that window of opportunity opens up it benefits Canadian baseball players."

    Several farm directors declined comment on the issue, saying they wanted to be briefed by Major League Baseball about the changes.


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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Good. Now we can finally get Obispo over here.

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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Quote Originally Posted by OnBaseMachine View Post
    Good. Now we can finally get Obispo over here.
    My thoughts exactly. I wonder where he will start out at....

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    Quote Originally Posted by dougdirt View Post
    My thoughts exactly. I wonder where he will start out at....
    Hopefully Dayton or Sarasota.

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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Thats what I was thinking.... Dayton, but with a short leash (all depending on truly the kind of pitcher he is, becuase honestly none of us have a real clue what he throws outside of a FB) who can be promoted quickly if he performs.

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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Hopefully Dayton or Sarasota
    Didn't Almaraz say he could pitch as high as AA last year? Of course his opinion doesn't matter anymore, but Obispo must have some idea of how to pitch. We'll get a better idea next year. We know he throws hard and raped the Dominican Summer League for whatever that's worth.

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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Obispo's issues are bigger than bureucracy. Didn't he try some sort of illegal mail order bride immegration thing?
    Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.

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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Should go along way in allieviating all those illegal alen issues.

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    Re: New Law Should Eliminate Visa Issues

    Quote Originally Posted by LoganBuck View Post
    Obispo's issues are bigger than bureucracy. Didn't he try some sort of illegal mail order bride immegration thing?
    Yes

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