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Eye issues cloud Mateo's future

By Jorge Arangure Jr.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Wagner Mateo -- the 16-year-old outfielder who received a $3.1 million bonus, the most ever given to an amateur Latin American position player -- is having vision problems that may affect his contract status with the St. Louis Cardinals, according to several Latin American baseball sources. The sources indicate that the Dominican-born Mateo has recently undergone several eye examinations and that the Cardinals are waiting for results to see if Mateo has a degenerative condition that would impa ...

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