The globalization of baseball also features an increasingly global hunt for baseball talent. The already significant presence of foreign players in MLB indicates how serious the global talent hunt has become. The most serious international market for baseball players is in Latin America, but MLB teams are also scouting and trying to recruit talent in Asia. Most MLB teams now vseriously hunt talent in Latin American countries, through scouting and baseball academies where MLB teams systematically evaluate baseball prospects.
The denationalization of the market for baseball talent is a complex, and in many ways, disturbing phenomenon. Baseball experts perceive that MLB teams hunt so competitively in Latin America not only because Latino players are good, but also because the quality of American baseball talent is declining. Dick Williams, special assignment scout for the New York Yankees, believes that "[tlhe American talent has diminished. ' "°