Ex-Pirate Enrique Wilson is apparently a real sleazeball

by Vlad on Nov 4, 2009 5:59 PM EST Comment 6 comments

A statement from his ex-wife, Ms. Marina Valdez:

I guess is a tradition for these players to do that..I have a daughter with Enrique Wilson (former Yankee player) and he also stopped paying child support and has never call his daughter again, his place to escape and be child support free…Dominican Republic…I have been searching for him for the past 3 years and no one can tell me exactly were he is at, until 2 weeks ago that my cousin was watching a game and saw him playing for a baseball team in the Dominican Republic...Can you put a search party out please...I'm willing to cooparte.. I can even send you a copy of how much he owes in child support

Via Deadspin . The Pirates acquired Wilson as part of a package in exchange for noted wife-beater Wil Cordero at the trade deadline in 2000, and shipped him to the Yankees for Damaso Marte in June of 2001.

Running out on responsibilities to your children is one of the lowest things a man can do, and it's particularly egregious when you've earned more than $3.3M over your major league career. If anyone here has any connection to Wilson from his Pittsburgh days and knows where he is, please e-mail A.J. Daulerio at ajd@deadspin.com to help his family get what they deserve.

UPDATE: He's been found . You may now resume your prior offseason-related activities.

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I think there is a mistake in the final paragraph

asking for information about Cordero rather than Wilson

by reverse apache master on Nov 4, 2009 6:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You are correct...

…and now, so is the post. Thanks for the heads-up.

by Vlad on Nov 4, 2009 6:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

For me, Enrique is right up there with Cota, Nunez, Burnitz, Vogelsong, and Boehringer as the poster boys of the mediocrity of the Pirates over the last decade.

by Suffering Buc on Nov 4, 2009 8:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

On the field that might be true

But off the field it seems unfair to lump these guys together with him.

by Dignan on Nov 5, 2009 6:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes, it would be.

by Suffering Buc on Nov 5, 2009 3:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Cota was what he was supposed to be – a guy who could catch a major league breaking ball a couple dozen times a year – and Nunez would have been a fine utility player for a team that didn’t think he should be a starter or the first man off the bench. The rest were just dreck (well, Boehringer teased us with one good year), and I never understood how Enrique ended up on good Yankees rosters. I guess some sort of karma situation in which they needed to carry a Pirates castoff (Charlie Hayes, Luis Sojo, etc.) in order to win the Series (the D-Backs out-karma’d them with Tony Womack in ’01).

by JRoth95 on Nov 8, 2009 11:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs