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The team decided to give him this last year to see how some of his earlier classes would produce but ultimately decided that a change was necessary. The Pittsburgh Pirates fired Director of Latin American Scouting Rene Gayo after an investigation by Major League Baseball determined he collected improper payment, major-league sources told Ken.

Vizcaino has been with the organization in this position since December ofinheriting the position from Rene Gayo, who was dismissed for receiving improper payments. His dismissal does not mean that more major changes are expected on the international scouting front at this time.

But we felt like we had enough time, enough classes to get a sense of what we were getting. The Pittsburgh Pirates say Major League Baseball intends to discipline their director of Latin American scouting for rules violations, and the team announced it will not renew Rene Gayo's contract when it expires next month.

Whomever the Pirates hire will be inheriting top-notch facilities in the Dominican Republic and the knowledge that the organization routinely spends its international signing bonus pool. According to The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal the Pittsburgh Pirates have fired their head of international scouting Rene Gayo.

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Skip to Content. Vizcaino has been with the organization in this position since December ofinheriting the position from Rene Gayo, who was dismissed for receiving improper payments. We made the decision that we had to get better, and a change was necessary to do that.

The current international signing pool period will conclude on Dec. This will be the second change Pittsburgh has made on the scouting side within the past year after promoting Joe DelliCarri to the vice president of scouting while hiring Justin Horowitz as the director of amateur scouting last November.

In his time with the Pirates, Vizcaino helped bring credibility back to their standing on the international market while being party to the continued development of the team’s Dominican facilities, which it now boasts as. A search for a new director will begin soon.

Rene Gayo, the Pirates' director of American League scouting, has been let go after an investigation found he had received improper payments.