"For me, my hope rests in Jean Carlos. Nothing else." People are open about their desperation in "Ballplayer: Pelotero," a scrappy documentary about teenage ballplayers in the Dominican Republic, ...

Pelotero is a movie about two prospects in the Dominican Republic and their path to professional baseball. Based on that sentence, you might figure it had a lot in common with Hoop Dreams, the ...

In “Ballplayer: Pelotero,” it’s all about the money. In the documentary by filmmakers Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin and Jon Paley, it’s not love of the game that inspires the teenage prospects from the ...

The documentary “Ballplayer: Pelotero” swings for the fences in its exploration of Major League Baseball’s alleged mistreatment of prospects in the Dominican Republic. Twenty percent of all players in ...