LAST MINUTE: Cuba announced the release of players to hire abroad on their own

By Yasel Porto

This Tuesday, the National Director of Baseball Juan Reinaldo Pérez appeared on the Bola Viva program on Cuban TV, and among the most important issues addressed in the popular space was the hiring of Cuban baseball players in different international leagues beyond MLB, of course. .

“The hiring of athletes goes through a process that the FCB governs and tries to insert the players in the leagues where they can have a development and a benefit. It is a mission of the Federation to manage contracts for them, and the players themselves look for their contracts that under the protection of the FCB have the guarantee of greater protection in many ways, ”the manager began by saying.

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For three minutes he gave explanations on this matter without saying something that was not already known until the question of the space host Hernández Luján arrived.

It was the question asked by my colleague that actually had the greatest impact of the entire statement by the Commissioner of Baseball after answering affirmatively about the possibility of Cuban players seeking a contract on their own without the FCB serving as a mediator. in case the athletes want it.

Lujan: The athlete can receive a contract by the FCB at the request of a club, a contract can be managed and he decides if he wants it in a personal capacity or if he wants the protection, the legality of the Federation.

John Reinaldo: Exactly.

Shortly after he added that the FCB would recommend to the players that it serve as a representative but it would be optional. If the National Director of Baseball understood Luján’s question correctly, his answer could generate a considerable change in the future policy of the Cuban authorities and not only the players will not have the obligatory tie to have the FCB, but the contracts they have the presence of this entity will not be economically affected.

That must also be important for those who today play in other leagues and have long since dissociated themselves from the National Series. If several of them are interested in playing again for their team and public, the situation could be more favorable than before. Of course, nothing was said here about eliminating repatriation, but sooner or later that will have to be eliminated logically and for so many other things.

Pérez Pardo, who has held that position since September of last yearalso clarified that the only percentage that the FCB charges is the one paid by the clubs for the player’s training right, so that according to what was publicly said by this official, the athlete’s salary is fully respected.

Although all this that Juan Reinaldo clarified came out in the aforementioned television program, the most sensible thing is to wait for what he expressed about hiring and the rest of the issues indicated by him to have their full compliance. It is that there have been many cases where from saying to doing the distance has not only been great, but the merger has never existed.

We are still waiting for the manager for a period of four years, the players in the Cuba team who play independently in different professional circuits, the president of the FCB, among many other examples of unfulfilled promises.

Hopefully this will not remain in words or a replay of the same and finally each person has the right to choose where to play and with whom to be represented without having to give up participating in the National Series of their country or play with the Cuban team if they have the sporting ability to do so. Time after time to see how all this evolves and how far the doors open for the good of our baseball.

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LAST MINUTE: Cuba announced the release of players to hire abroad on their own