NewsWhore
04-19-2011, 09:50 PM
Yewry Guillen, the 6 footer 18 year old, baseball prospect was scheduled to travel to Viera, Florida to join the GCL Nationals, branch of Washington Nationals, as reported in Diario Libre. Instead that day he was buried in his native San Cristobal, after dying on Thursday of bacterial meningitis.
He was the pride of his family and a hot prospect for the Washington Nationals. But the Nationals had delayed on the payment of his US$35,000 bonus on grounds of clearing his documentation and visa.
Diario Libre highlights that the prospect had so much potential, he was authorized to skip playing with the local summer league and report directly to the Major League minor league team in Florida.
There are reports in the local press that the team has agreed to pay the US$35,000 posthumously to the family.
When he fell sick, Guillen was lodged at the Nationals Baseball Academy. After two days of suffering from high fever, he was sent home. He died at the Centro Medico Cubano on Thursday.
The Ministry of Public Health ordered that in the environs of the 30 baseball academies preventive measures be taken to avoid sicknesses and improve sanitary conditions at the sports facilities. The Ministry said that epidemiological check protocols be followed at the Nationals academy and in the Guillen family environs. Meningitis vaccinations were made available in Nigua, where Guillen lived with his family.
Meningitis vaccinations are routine in the prevention protocol used by pediatricians in the Dominican Republic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/16/yewry-guillen-dead-nationals-prospect_n_850078.html
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He was the pride of his family and a hot prospect for the Washington Nationals. But the Nationals had delayed on the payment of his US$35,000 bonus on grounds of clearing his documentation and visa.
Diario Libre highlights that the prospect had so much potential, he was authorized to skip playing with the local summer league and report directly to the Major League minor league team in Florida.
There are reports in the local press that the team has agreed to pay the US$35,000 posthumously to the family.
When he fell sick, Guillen was lodged at the Nationals Baseball Academy. After two days of suffering from high fever, he was sent home. He died at the Centro Medico Cubano on Thursday.
The Ministry of Public Health ordered that in the environs of the 30 baseball academies preventive measures be taken to avoid sicknesses and improve sanitary conditions at the sports facilities. The Ministry said that epidemiological check protocols be followed at the Nationals academy and in the Guillen family environs. Meningitis vaccinations were made available in Nigua, where Guillen lived with his family.
Meningitis vaccinations are routine in the prevention protocol used by pediatricians in the Dominican Republic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/16/yewry-guillen-dead-nationals-prospect_n_850078.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#13)