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Dodgers going ‘all-in’ with Dominican academy
- Updated: December 20, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers are nearing completion of an extensive renovation of their Campo Las Palmas training academy in the Dominican Republic.
The project is, in part, an anticipated response by the club to limitations on signing bonuses for international players and a reallocation of resources into the infrastructure to develop them.
“With the new CBA [Collective Bargaining Agreement] and everyone limited as to how much you can spend there [on players], we think the competitive edge is in facilities, instruction and training,” said Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten. “We are going all-in on the best, state-of-the-art complex.”
The renovation essentially triples the housing capacity for players and staff from the original 40-player accommodations that were the foundation of the camp then-owner Peter O’Malley opened in 1987, when the Dodgers were the first club with a permanent academy on the island.
Under the later ownership of Frank and Jamie McCourt, the Dodgers de-emphasized scouting in the Caribbean and cut back resources for maintaining the 75-acre Campo Las Palmas complex.
But current ownership has backed up talk about a renewed commitment to the region by aggressively signing more than a dozen Cubans allowed to leave that nation in recent years; by restoring a second summer-league team that had been retracted; and now by upgrading the Dominican …
