Major League Baseball has rehired Sandy Alderson, former vice president of baseball operations, as a consultant to reform the league's Dominican Republic office.
"I am very pleased that Sandy Alderson has taken on this important assignment in our effort to address matters in the Dominican Republic," Commissioner Selig said in a written announcement Monday. "As both an accomplished baseball executive who understands the nature of this task and a distinguished ambassador for our game, Sandy is uniquely qualified to represent Major League Baseball."
In his new role, Anderson is likely to tackle issues facing clubs regarding amateur signings in Latin America -- namely, age and identity fraud and the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
"I look forward to my new assignment in the Dominican Republic, where I have been involved in baseball matters for more than 25 years," Alderson said in the release. "Major League Baseball faces significant issues there, but all of them can be resolved favorably through the cooperative efforts of the Office of the Commissioner, the Major League clubs and the government and the people of the Dominican Republic."
There is a growing desire to have the Dominican office, currently headed by Ronaldo Perlata, do more to investigate age and identity fraud in Latin America as those cases have become more prevalent.
A longtime baseball executive, Alderson is quite familiar with the issues facing the game in the Dominican Republic from his former position with MLB, a job that he held from 1998-2005.
Alderson played a role in establishing the league's Dominican office and helped outline the current procedures employed by the league in determining the age and identity of Latin players.
In 2009, Alderson led a committee to evaluate the sport's operations in the Domican Republic. At the Owners' Meetings in November, Alderson presented a report on possible solutions to a variety of issues in the area and is likely to employ some of his own suggestions in his new role.
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