# Joe Kehoskie

Joe Kehoskie (born January 18, 1973) is an American baseball consultant, executive, and entrepreneur who is often quoted in the media on baseball-related issues. Kehoskie has worked in professional baseball in a variety of capacities since 1984, formerly working in minor league baseball (1984–1994) and as a player agent (1996–2011).

## Sourced
### Baseball

* It's the wild, wild West of baseball, and it just keeps getting wilder.
** Discussing the business of Cuban baseball defectors, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)
* You take 5 percent of Contreras's $30 million, you're retired.
** On the potential monetary value of Cuban baseball players, from the Boston Globe article "Hardball" by Steve Fainaru and Shira Springer (28 May 2000)
* Fidel Castro essentially forced these guys to leave Cuba. It wasn't really even a choice. It was either stay at home, be handed a broom and told 'have a nice life' or they could leave Cuba and continue playing baseball.
** On Cuban baseball defectors, from the PBS documentary Stealing Home (18 June 2001)
* Unfortunately, here in the Dominican, a lot of the time kids just quit school at 10, 11, 12 and play baseball full-time. It’s great for the kids who make it because they become superstars and [make] millions of dollars in the big leagues. But for 98 kids out of a hundred, it results in a kid who is 18, 19 with no education. So it’s kind of a win-lose here in the Dominican.
** Discussing amateur baseball in the Dominican Republic, from the PBS documentary Stealing Home (18 June 2001)
* There's at least half a billion dollars [worth] of baseball players in Cuba right now and probably a lot more.
** On the amount of baseball talent in Cuba, from the Vanity Fair article "Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution" by Michael Lewis (July 2008)
* [Chapman] is a strong candidate for being the fool’s gold of the current free-agent market.
** On $30 million Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman's readiness for Major League Baseball, from the New York Times article "Risks Seen in Signing Cuban Defector" by Jack Curry (3 December 2009)
* In many if not most cases, Cuban players haven’t been busts so much as they’ve been systematically over-hyped during the signing process, which led to unrealistic expectations around Major League Baseball and in the media. The vast majority of Cuba’s truly elite players have either stayed in Cuba for their entire careers or left Cuba too late to have a meaningful MLB career.
** On the success rate and perception of Cuban baseball defectors in MLB, from the Miami Herald article "Yoenis Cespedes may be the great unknown for Miami Marlins" by Clark Spencer (12 February 2012)

### COVID-19 pandemic

* 'Social distancing is a good place to start'? After plunging the global economy into a depression based on little more than a panic-induced guess, one hates to even ponder what the (alleged) experts might have in mind for us next.
** Opposing the position of Harvard professor Marc Lipsitch, in a comment at StatNews.com (18 March 2020)
* Our 'leaders,' 'experts,' and media fear-mongers are obliterating the global economy, running roughshod over our civil liberties, ruining the lives of millions of people via business closures, job eliminations, and huge increases in child abuse and domestic violence, and risking if not inviting widespread civil unrest in order to theoretically save a portion of a population of mostly elderly people with very serious preexisting health problems. Anyone who supports the draconian 'mitigation' measures currently in place throughout the U.S. and elsewhere, rather than a targeted quarantine of high-risk people, is either a moron or a monster.
** On the lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in a comment at Healthy-Skeptic.com (31 March 2020)

## External links

* Joe Kehoskie Baseball
* Joe Kehoskie at the Internet Movie Database
* Joe Kehoskie at Baseball-Reference Bullpen