A contingent of Diamondbacks officials, including owner Ken Kendrick and CEO Derrick Hall, departed for the Dominican Republic on Thursday on a fact-finding mission. They hope they can begin to build a competitive advantage in a market that’s both unpredictable yet lucrative, one that was once fruitful for the organization but, in recent years, has been mostly barren.
“We’re going to make some investment in the Dominican as a centerpiece to international scouting,” Kendrick said last week.
After recent changes to baseball’s collective-bargaining agreement, the Diamondbacks’ new regime seems to be reassessing the club’s place in the international landscape.