Vlad Guerrero 34, not 33

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Originally Posted by PotatoOfCouch13

I'm not sure, but I seem to remember Cuba having a problem with this, just because most of the players end up floating on a raft in the middle of the Caribbean.

EDIT: found an example in Orlando Hernandez

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I believe Jose Contreras of Cuba is also lying about his age, or has already been proven too.

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Originally Posted by dickay

sure i'd have doubt over their ages too. i'm not sure of the immigration process, but why would it be easier for those from central america to alter their birth cert. than those from asian countries? Or even Canada for that matter? Maybe its more difficult through their govt., but is it really unfathomable?

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Because highly developed nations like Japan and Canada keep much better records than under-developed nations like the Dominican Republic.

Frankly, if you're that paranoid about the validity of birth certificates, there's absolutely no non-"xenophobic" reason that you should be 100% confident in American birth certificates.

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Originally Posted by dickay

sure i'd have doubt over their ages too. i'm not sure of the immigration process, but why would it be easier for those from central america to alter their birth cert. than those from asian countries? Or even Canada for that matter? Maybe its more difficult through their govt., but is it really unfathomable?

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I really hope you're saying this just for entertainment's sake, and you don't legitimately believe this.

Japan and Korea are highly developed nations. Technologically, even more so than the United States or Europe.

I second HoustonGM. If you doubt their record keeping, you might as well doubt every nation's record keeping.