"Hey, Gang! It's Old Man Oviedo!"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Or, as you may know him, erstwhile Marlins closer Leo Nunez.

The Associated Press reports that the Florida Marlins closer and Dominican native has been playing under an assumed name for all seven of his years in Major League Baseball and is actually older than the age that's listed by the team. The news came to light on Thursday as Nunez returned to the Dominican Republic to sort the issue out and was placed on the Marlins' restricted list. It probably goes without saying that he is not expected to pitch for the Marlins the last week of the season... ... How this will all sort out for Nunez/Oviedo is anybody's guess, but there's a lot at stake for him. After saving 92 games for the Marlins over the last three seasons, he's about to enter his third and final year of arbitration and would enter free agency in 2013.

[metirish]

Apparently he's 29 and not 28 , not a huge deal there. Juan Carlos Oviedo is a better name anyway.

[Edgy MD]

Fausto Carmona is actually Roberto Hernandez Heredia.

I guess I should come clean before I'm busted. My real name is Smokey Casanova.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is that your "porn star" name?

Mine is Pepe Adrienne.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Delorean Presidential here. But my friends call me Tornado One-Foot-Flaccid.

(Porn name: Venancio "Vinny" Sunset. Which is more than a little on-the-nose, no?)

[G-Fafif]

The real tipoff came when he expressed surprise that none of his teammates wanted to join him for the early bird special.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the Marlins sign Heath Bell for mega-bucks to be their closer and are suddenly their shocked, **SHOCKED** to discover that their former guy has been lying about his age.

[Guest attgig]

seems like baseball teams need to invest in private investigators to look into peoples backgrounds before handing out contracts...

[Ceetar]

attgig wrote: seems like baseball teams need to invest in private investigators to look into peoples backgrounds before handing out contracts...

Red Sox did that for Crawford. chances are they do for the high priced guys.

[Guest attgig]

Ceetar wrote: attgig wrote: seems like baseball teams need to invest in private investigators to look into peoples backgrounds before handing out contracts... Red Sox did that for Crawford. chances are they do for the high priced guys.

they should add "16 year olds" from central america to that list.

[Edgy MD]

I think Sandy Alderson's role had been, in a large part, cleaning up that fraud.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

G-Fafif wrote: The real tipoff came when he expressed surprise that none of his teammates wanted to join him for the early bird special.

"Hey! Pipe down, you kids. I'm watching the 'Murder, She Wrote' marathon!"