Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos kidnapped from home in Venezuela.

[STDiva]

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2011/11/09/nationals-catcher-ramos-kidnapped-in-venezuela/

The Associated Press Nov 9, 2011 – 11:48 PM ET

By Jorge Rueda

CARACAS, Venezuela — Wilson Ramos, a catcher seen as one of the young building blocks for the Washington Nationals, was abducted by gunmen Wednesday from his home in his native Venezuela.

Ramos, a 24-year-old who just finished his rookie season, was taken away in an SUV by four armed men in Santa Ines in central Carabobo state, the spokeswoman for his Venezuelan League team, the Aragua Tigers, said on her official Twitter account.

“This is sad, worrisome and true that Wilson Ramos has been kidnapped,” Katherine Vilera wrote.

She said Ramos was taken at 6:45 p.m. at his home in the region 95 miles (150 kilometers) west of Caracas. She said police were notified.

A person close to Ramos’ family, who asked not to be quoted by name out of safety concerns, said the catcher was at home with his father and brothers when several men “entered the house and took him away.”

“As of this hour, there has been no contact” between the kidnappers and Ramos’ family, the person said.

That's scary.

 

[Mayhem]

Bring the troops home.....then send 'em south. Enough is enough with this bullshit.

 

[Galactic]

You know, this is a VERY easy problem to fix. Look, if a guy is good enough to make the Majors, let him bring his whole family here, and let him stay here permanently as well...this kidnapping shit is getting old.

 

[StanScratch]

The "hope" out of this incident is that most kidnappings down there are "business dealings" which end with the victim safe after money changes hands. Totally fucked up, though.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Ramos is only making like league minimum. Still around $400,000K though. Still pissed the Twins traded him for Capps' sorry ass.

 

[slayerinthedark]

Something similar to this happened to a Nigerian soccer player's brother-fortunately the brother returned safe from his kidnappers.

I hope Ramos returns safe from his kidnappers.

 

[STDiva]

You know, this is a VERY easy problem to fix. Look, if a guy is good enough to make the Majors, let him bring his whole family here, and let him stay here permanently as well...this kidnapping shit is getting old.

I think a lot of players choose to live in their home country.

 

[PlumpRump]

Ramos is only making like league minimum. Still around $400,000K though. Still pissed the Twins traded him for Capps' sorry ass.

Maybe the kidnappers mistook him for Strasburg. "Uh, sorry amigos, I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm pretty sure you're confusing me with the tall white guy that got the $15m signing bonus."