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Amateur Hour - The Alvarez saga

An interesting little situation has developed between the Pirates and former Vanderbilt third baseman Pedro Alvarez, the second overall pick in June's Amateur Draft. Just minutes before the August 15 deadline for draft picks to either sign a contract or re-enter the draft, Pittsburgh and Alvarez' agent Scott Boras allegedly agreed, over the phone, to a contract that included a $6 million signing bonus. What happened next is anyone's guess, and now up to an arbiter to sort out. By Tom Stad.