Nov 11 2011 07:07 AM
Re: Wilson Ramos kidnapped
| I've tended to think that MLB had a Blackwater-type security firm looking after the players during the winter league season, and that the the real vulnerability has been during the MLB season to players' extended families or to former players. |
Yup. Bud's got his own muscle:
| The Department of Investigations, or DOI, was created at the recommendation of George Mitchell and his “Mitchell Report” of Dec. 2007. A month later, commissioner Bud Selig announced the formation of the DOI and installed former New York policeman Dan Mullin as its head. Mullin is the cousin of NBA Hall of Famer Chris Mullin. The DOI has full-time agents in place in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, just as it does in the United States. The agency worked closely with Venezuelan officials during the separate 2009 kidnappings of Victor Zambrano’s mother and Yorvit Torrealba’s(notes) son, and routinely monitors the day-to-day security concerns in those nations. A baseball source said Thursday morning that Ramos would be best served if the league said little on the very delicate matter. |
MLB's vice president and DOI head Dan Mullin.
