Alfredo Despaigne & Yurisbel Gracial Will Not Be At The Start Of Baseball In Japan

Cubans Alfredo Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial will not be at the start of the 2020 season of the Japanese Professional Baseball League because they remain in Cuba due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will not have time to travel to that country and meet the mandatory quarantine period before the tournament begins.  (Translated)

Diario de Cuba

Ariel Martinez: "I Have Not Yet Achieved Great Things, But I Will"

A champion of the new generation of baseball from Matanzas, Ariel Martínez has reached where others dream: the Japanese Major Leagues and the opportunity to demonstrate, in lands where the ball is as much like the Suchi - or more -, the strength of this sport in Cuba. and the tools while apprehended since, when he was only seven years old, he scampered around an Athens neighborhood and was enraged when he lost one of the games among the kids in the area.  (Translated)

Pelota Cuban Blog

Chunichi Re-Signed Raidel Martinez & Ariel Martinez For The 2019 Season

Cubans Raidel Martinez (pitcher) and Ariel Martinez (catcher) renewed their contracts with the Chunichi Dragons, team of the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB).

CubaSi

Cuba Deepening Ties With Japan Through Baseball

Cuban sport's top leader Antonio Becali (54), visiting Japan as a part of his trip to Asian countries, met Masatake Yamanaka, Vice President for the Baseball Federation of Japan. Becali became President of INDER (The National Institute of Sport, Physical Education, and Recreation) in 2014, after serving as coach of Womens National Judo Team of Cuba and Chancellor of Cuban National Physical Sports University.

Baseball Federation Of Japan

Nelson Cruz Eyes Saturday Return To Mariners' Lineup

Mariners manager Scott Servais' phone rang Friday morning with the familiar voice of Nelson Cruz on the other end.

Seattle Official Site

Chunichi Expects Intense Future Fire By Signing Ariel Martinez

The future bet of the Chunichi Dragons could throw fire of talent in a short time. What was already known became official with the signature of the receiver Ariel Martínez, one of the youngsters with the greatest projection in the Cuban ball.  (Translated)

El Nuevo Herald

Softbank Signed Yurisbel Gracial For 2018 Season

With the presence of the president of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB), Mr. Higinio Velez, the third base from Matanzas, Yurisbel Gracial, signed on Monday the contract with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, current champion of the Japanese Baseball League, the well-known NPB, for its acronym in English.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 1-9-17

Having consummated the last third of the clash sealed the day before because of the rain, the Alazanes finished the victory over the Crocodiles and started to lead the series to the best in seven games. Tomorrow, Lázaro Blanco vs Danny Betancourt.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 11-20-16

Matanzas became the first cast to arrive at 50 wins in the 2016-17 season Cuban, by providing easily Sunday Camagüey, this time by way of the baseball Noção 12-2 8 inputs in clash played in Candido Gonzalez park before 8,100 people.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 11-10-16

An undisputed catcher Ariel Martinez drove in Yurisbel Gracial with the decisive run from third base in the sixth inning, and Matanzas Crocodiles returned to the path of victory, after three defeats unexpected online, beating this afternoon 3-2 Villa Clara at the Augusto C. Sandino front of 5,500 people.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 11-7-16

Noelvis Entenza (5-1) (Photo) , reinforcement from industrials to matanceros won by 4-2 at the Victoria de Giron park, in the presence of 6,500 fans, and in a match finished in just six innings because of rain.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 11-5-16

Matanzas Saturday continued his overwhelming passage, gaining 10-0 victory over Holguin via the beisbolero Noção, to thereby break the record of 18 consecutive wins record for a cast of this province, which was matched with team Citricultores he had achieved in 1983-84 season during the 23 National Series under the command of Thomas Soto, when the matanceros then titrated with 52-23 mark.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 2016 All-Stars

After a successful meeting between the highest authorities of the National Baseball (DNB) and the press, held Thursday at the Hall Adolfo Luque's Latinoamericano Stadium, they were formed teams of West and East that will encourage the traditional game of stars, agreed to on 29 October at the Victoria de Giron Matanzas stadium.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 10-10-16

Matanzas today reached 41 victories and enlarged the record for a qualifying stage in baseball Cuba, Holguin to have 7-3 one of their two games postponed in the calendar of 45 games.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 10-3-16

The Matanzas (39-3) today superlíder added two more victories, but the most significant date in the Cuban baseball championship were the new lunges received by Industrial and Pinar del Rio, which can be fatal.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 9-14-16

In Game 86 of this Cuban baseball season, on August 20, exactly 24 days ago, the streak of 18 consecutive wins cast of Matanzas began, who on Wednesday came to an end when the iconic team Industriales was crossed in the final of a shock victory seemed 19 Victor Mesa boys and took them to a dramatic 6-5 win in extra innings to hobby 5,250 people in the Victoria park Giron Matanzas.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 8-25-16

When Thursday concluded the first third of the first stage of the 56th National Series, the casts of Matanzas, Villa Clara, the champion Ciego de Avila, Holguin, Guantanamo and Camaguey, got swept Tuesday through Thursday, while two traditional Pinar river and Industrial, miraculously escaped from them.  (Translated)

Baseball de Diario

Cuban League 8-23-16

New triumphs of Matanzas, Villa Clara and Camagüey, a shutout of Las Tunas, winningest Holguin, Ciego de Avila, Guantanamo and Granma, was what deparó the afternoon session on Tuesday, when the last subseries of the first round began 15 shocks of this first stage of the 56th National Series.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Cuban League 8-21-16

Victories in the particular series of weekend of the top three in the standings, Matanzas, Camagüey and Villa Clara, after his Sunday triumphs, plus Granma, Artemis and Cienfuegos who ran with the same fate and only two swept by Las Tunas and Holguin, was what deparó the day Sunday in the continuation of the Cuban season 2016-17.  (Translated)

Baseball de Cuba

Ariel Martinez, One Of The Most Convincing New Talents In Cuba

The receiver lanky Ariel Martinez is one of the most convincing and talented of the new batch of Cuban ballplayers players.  (Translated)

Granma