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Mariners Closing Venezuelan Academy As U.S. Relations Falter

The Mariners reportedly "will closed their academy" in Venezuela in a move that has "symbolic and practical ramifications." P Felix Hernandez is "an alumnus of the program now being shuttered," and the "future of the Venezuelan Summer League is in jeopardy." MLB is now confronting the "less favorable realities of a deteriorating relationship between the U.S. and Venezuela – the third-largest supplier of talent" to the league (FOXSPORTS.com, 3/5).

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