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Originally Posted by Antithesis
I'm surprised that teams are still pitching to him, though with the offensive lineup the Cards have, they might not have much of a choice.
I was interested to hear that there were some questions about his actual age, something about it perhaps being different from what his birth certificate says. This does seem to come up a fair bit with Latin ball players, though it does seem kind of unlikely to me. Seems a bit fishy that these allegations are coming up while he's putting up these monster numbers.
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I used to work with a guy from the Dominican Republic, he said it was pretty easy to get a phony birth certificate. Carlos Baerga was the name he always brought up (he's born in Puerto Rico, but it's supposedly the same there). It says he was born in 1968, my pal Ramon says closer to 1962 or 63.