Prior to Franco’s summoning, Dominican Republic authorities searched his home in Villa Real and his mother’s home in Bani last Tuesday, per Listin Diario. Rays shortstop Wander Franco.

Junior Caminero ’s first full Major League season has been a success, as the former star prospect has hit .258/.297/.523 with ...

A court in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, found baseball player Wander Franco — of the Tampa Bay Rays — guilty of abuse and sexual exploitation of a minor and imposed a two-year prison ...

Wander Franco’s career reportedly may be over. A source close to the investigation of Franco’s alleged inappropriate relationships with underage women told Z101 Digital reporter Héctor Gómez ...

Wander Franco’s legal team will appeal the June verdict that found the Rays All-Star shortstop guilty of sexually abusing a minor and threatens to end his major-league career, his lawyer said Friday.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, left, reacts after hearing his sentence during his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Thursday, June 26, 2025.

Ask Wander Franco nowadays, headliner at the Rays’ big league spring training camp, what it was like to watch the 2020 postseason essentially as an alternate before he’d even debuted, and he ...

Franco’s mother, Nancy, has two major league brothers: not just Willy Aybar but also Erick, who played 12 seasons in M.L.B. Franco’s father, also named Wander, played professionally but did ...

Franco hit .332/.398/.536 with 27 homers, 145 RBIs, 48 doubles, 20 triples, 27 stolen bases and just 75 strikeouts in 829 at-bats over 214 minor-league games ...

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) — Wander Franco, the suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop charged in a sexual abuse case, was found guilty on Thursday but received a two-year suspended sentence.