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Originally Posted by dsvitak
Pujols was asked who he hit his first home run off of. as a kid. He said Octavio Dotel.
The problem here is that Dotel, several years later, admitted that he lied - badly, about his age.
Pujols born 16 Jan, 1980. Dotel, officially? 25 Nov, 1973.
Not sure how they do this in the Domenican..but when I played (and coached) you didn't have kids ten years old playing against 16 year olds.
This must have embarrassed Pujols, as he then started denying he said it...he KNEW it was the smoking gun about lying about his age.
https://www.halosheaven.com/2018/11/...-age-conundrum
Pujols made the comment about taking Dotel deep in 2006. Here's Dotel coming clean:
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/a...ld-tell-truth/ |
My guess is, third world countries don’t keep good records, when they come here, they can fudge the age of their kids in order to do well in little league, travel ball etc and get better deals when they go pro. I’m still convinced Soto lied about his age.
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