Over the past few days, a story has been leaking out about a federal grand jury that is looking into the practices of Major League Baseball teams signing amateur players from Latin America.
The original report from Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports focuses on the signing of Cuban ballplayer Hector Olivera, who had a short, misbegotten major league career (that included a domestic violence suspension) with the Braves after being traded to Atlanta by the Dodgers. Passan emphasizes that the exact target of grand jury is not known, but that people connected to Olivera are being brought in to testify.