KBO & NPB Looking At Matt Harvey

Jon Heyman Twitter

Denard Span Discusses His Decision To Walk Away

Denard Span has played 11 seasons at the big league level, totaling 1359 games and 5956 plate appearances, but the former Twins, Nationals, Giants, Rays and Mariners outfielder confirmed to MLBTR this week that he’s suited up for the final time.

MLB Trade Rumors

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)

Pelota Cubana Blog

Matt Harvey Has Received KBO Interest

Former Mets ace Matt Harvey recently made known that he’s throwing regular bullpen sessions and hoping for another shot in the Majors, but the right-hander has also received interest from at least one club in the Korea Baseball Organization, MLBTR has confirmed. SBS in South Korea reported yesterday that Harvey had received interest and is at least open to the idea.

MLB Trade Rumors

CPBL Team Interested In Kang Jung-Ho

CPBL Stats Twitter

KBO Bans Kang Jung-Ho For One Year Before Potential Return

Former major league infielder Kang Jung-ho, seeking a return to the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) under the cloud of multiple drunk driving cases, received a one-year suspension from the South Korean league on Monday.

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

KBO To Meet Monday To Determine Fate Of Kang Jung-Ho

The South Korean baseball league will open disciplinary proceedings on Monday to determine the fate of a former major leaguer seeking a return to Seoul despite his checkered past.

Yonhap News Agency

Jung-Ho Kang Formally Applies For Return To KBO

Former Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Kang Jung-ho has taken a formal step toward a return to the South Korean baseball league.

Yonhap News Agency

Francisco Rodriguez Hasn't Given Up On Writing Final Chapter To MLB Career

Francisco Rodriguez’s illustrious Major League career didn’t end the way he wanted.

MLive

How Matt Harvey Is Trying To Fight Off The Baseball End He Fears

Matt Harvey headed back to the East Coast in March at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, traveling to his sister’s house in Rhode Island.

NY Post

Manny Ramirez Would Like To Return To CPBL

Jon Heyman Twitter

Jung-Ho Kang Removed From Retired List

Jeeho Yoo Twitter

Everth Cabrera Working Out As A Pitcher, Plans Baseball & Boxing Academies

La Prensa

Giants & Yasiel Puig Working On Agreement

Cuban outfielder Yasiel Puig is very close to signing with the San Francisco Giants, a trusted source confirmed to DIARIO DE CUBA.  (Translated)

Diario de Cuba

Audio: Jose Bautista On His Potential Return 4-23-2020

"I'm a hitter."

Pump the brakes on @JoeyBats19 making a return to the majors on the mound. pic.twitter.com/2cTL76p82X

— MLB Network Radio on SiriusXM (@MLBNetworkRadio) April 23, 2020

Austin Jackson Open To Return After Missing 2019 Season

Jon Morosi Twitter

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)

Pelota Cubana Blog

Padres Released Gordon Beckham

Anderson Pickard Twitter