Mets invest US$8 million in ballplayers

[NewsWhore]

The New York Mets baseball club has invested US$8 million in their new baseball academy near Boca Chica in the south of the Dominican Republic to produce Major League prospects. President Leonel Fernandez threw the opening pitch at the ceremonies. At the event, Omar Minaya, the Mets' general manager and Jeff Wilpon, the Mets' president and COO, handed high school diplomas to two of the first prospects. Education is a strong part of the program. The Mets paid US$6 million for the land and spent an additional US$2 million on the facility that includes two baseball fields. One of fields has an artificial grass infield and the other one is an exact dimensional duplicate of the soon-to-be-completed Citi Field, the new home of the Mets as of next season. Even the outfield fences are the same height.

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