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Originally Posted by Daver
Actually it is. You have to pay for travel, and the scouts get paid a premium because they are spending extended amounts of time, 3-4 months, away from home. The Dodgers used to find a lot of talent there by using scouts that lived there, but they also got sold a bunch of lousy ball players by the same scouts taking payoffs.
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Don't most scouts live in Latin America? It's not an American scout going over there to find player, it's usually somebody from Latin America who is scouting.