Oscar Luis Colas Close To Finding A Home In Tne Big Leagues

There is a place in the Major Leagues where Cubans feel at home. If you are thinking of Miami you may be right. Living in the city founded on the ways of the emigrants from the Greater Antilles is like being at home for those who leave there looking for an opportunity in the best baseball in the world. Yet in South Chicago, despite the cold weather and the absence of the blazing Caribbean sun, island players find the comfort of home where they want to stay.  (Translated)

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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

Alfredo Despaigne Will Likely Miss Start Of NPB Season

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Jose Miguel Fernandez Humming Along In KBO

There are few things as consistent in South Korean baseball in 2020 as this: Jose Miguel Fernandez getting a base hit, or two, for the Doosan Bears.

Yonhap News Agency

Carlos Clifford Preparing To Sign With MLB Team

Carlos Clifford Cañizares left Cuba in early March 2020. His destination was one that has been frequented by all Cuban baseball players for more than two decades: the Dominican Republic. The 2.03-meter-tall left-handed pitcher is another on-going promise to sign a professional contract by the time the negotiations slowed by the major leagues due to the coronavirus are restored .  (Translated)

Diario de Cuba

What Will Happen To Baseball In Cuba After The Coronavirus?

The 60th National Baseball Series should have started in April, which would have allowed the new structure approved to be applied.  (Translated)

Diario De Cuba

Cuba Plays Baseball Secretly From The Government

In Havana things are more or less like this during these pandemic days: you go out into the street looking for something specific, and you can't find it. And if you're lucky, it appears halfway.  (Translated)

Primera Hora

Alfredo Despaigne, Yurisbel Gracial Would Return To Japan In June

According to the Nikkan Sports newspaper, Cubans Alfredo Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial will not be able to return to Japan to join the training of the Falcons of SoftBank until June or even July, depending on what happens with the coronavirus pandemic.  (Translated)

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Cardinals Capsules, Vol.17: Aledmys Diaz Hits A Grand Slam Following Death Of Jose Fernandez, 2016

Welcome back to Cards Capsules, the series in which we take a look back at memorable Cardinals games from the last 20 years in St. Louis baseball history. Without any baseball to watch in the present due to the spread of coronavirus, what better way to fill the time, eh?

KMOV

Javier Carrion Durruti Could Be Next Yordan Alvarez

The figure of Yordan Alvarez serves as a horizon for Javier Carrión Durrutí. He doesn't know if he will ever make it, but at least it helps him to walk forward in search of a dream: to sign with a Major League team and win a Rookie of the Year Award.  (Translated)

El Nuevo Herald

Bart Hernandez Released From Prison To Care For Mother

Under "extraordinary and compelling" reasons, Bart Hernández was released from his prison. Who was one of the best known Cuban baseball players, is at liberty to care for his sick mother in New York, the region most affected by the coronavirus in the United States.  (Translated)

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Roendry Rey Sanchez Targets The Majors

With Wilfredo's touch and Fernando's power, this is how Roendry Rey Sánchez's batting could be described. If, as they say, baseball runs in the family blood, this boy could be destined for great things, especially a goal that never abandons him: to be the first with the last name to play in the Major Leagues.  (Translated)

El Nuevo Heraldo

Alfredo Despaigne & Yurisbel Gracial Could Be Recovered Before Start Of The Season

Alfredo Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial of the Falcons of SoftBank, were diagnosed several weeks ago with an injury to the triangular carpal ligament of the left hand and a fissure in the little finger of the right hand, respectively.  (Translated)

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Brothers Marlon & Maikol Barroso Leave Cuba

Brothers Marlon and Maikol Barroso left Cuba with the dream of achieving a professional signature within baseball, according to a source told CiberCuba.  (Translated)

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Leslie Anderson Out With Bone Spur In Heel

Early yesterday, the rumor began to roll that the man from Camaguey was injured and his mentor Miguel Borroto could not count on him for the pre-Olympic baseball tournament in America. At noon I checked the version with her mother, "she came home because she is very sad," said Mirna Stephens. Two hours later, in his living room, Anderson suddenly confessed:  (Translated)

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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)

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Cuban National Baseball Series Suspends Until April 30, 2020

The National Baseball Series, the largest sports show in Cuba, was postponed like other local events scheduled until April 30, as part of the measures against the coronavirus COVID-19, which has reported 10 positive cases in the nation Caribbean and one deceased.  (Translated)

El Nuevo Herald

Daniel Condes Declared Free Agent

Lawyer Daniel Condes was declared a free agent a few days ago by the MLB Commissioner's Office and is now fit to sign with any major league organization.  (Translated)

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Yoelkis Cespedes Declaored Free Agent

There’s a new No. 1 on MLB.com’s Top 30 International Prospects List.

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Yankees' Denny Larrondo Tested Postive For Coronavirus

A source within the Yankees team just confirmed to our site that pitcher Denny Larrondo tested positive for the Corona Virus.  (Translated)

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