World Baseball Confederation rejects proposal for independent Cuba team

World Baseball Confederation rejects proposal for independent Cuba team

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) rejected the formation of an independent team who sought to represent Cuba in international tournaments like the next World Classicwithout the intervention of sports authorities of the Cuban government. Italian Ricardo Fraccari, president of the WBSC, told the official press that only the federations of each country can form … Read more

Cuban player Yuli Gourriel stays with the Houston Astros for another year

The Houston Astros extended the Cuban player’s contract for one more year Yuli gurriel, who will complete a seventh season with the team. “Happy and grateful that I will be wearing the Astros jacket again in 2022. We will continue to improve and struggle.”Gurriel wrote on Twitter. In September 2020 the Astros had already renewed … Read more

MLB arrives on the island to inspect the stadiums

With the upcoming season of the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (Lbprc) on the horizon, Major League Baseball (MLB) arrives on the island to inspect the stadiums where playball will be sung. Although the 2021-2022 tournament will have the participation of five teams, the official field examiner and consultant in the construction of MLB stadiums, … Read more

Cuban baseball player Loidel Rodríguez: “I did not run away in front of my teammates so as not to disrespect them”

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The Cuban player Loidel Rodriguez, one of the 12 athletes who left the National Baseball Team at the U-23 World Cup in Mexico, confessed that he did not elope in front of his teammates out of respect for them. Rodríguez offered an interview to AmericaTV in which he narrated how jumped from a second floor, … Read more

Cubans keep fighting for leaders in Major League Baseball

AL leader in the past two seasons, Jose Dariel Abreu wants his third title in a row and right now he ranks at the top of the tugs in all of baseball with a total of 92. This is the most dazzling news for Cuba when the statistics for the current season are reviewed, but … Read more

Patria y Vida rang out at the Miami Marlins stadium

Patria y Vida rang out at the Miami Marlins stadium

The Miami Marlins continue to be involved with the Cuban cause and have shown this in the last presentations of the team. On Thursday, those attending the LoanDepot Park in Little Havana enjoyed the theme ‘Homeland and Life’, whose video clip was broadcast on the giant screen to echo throughout the facility, where a Cuban … Read more

Yankees lose to Mets with uncontrolled shutdown by Aroldis Chapman

Yankees lose to Mets with uncontrolled shutdown by Aroldis Chapman

Designated hitter Domininc Smith and first baseman Pete Alonso homered for the Mets, who defeated the Yankees 10-5 on Monday in the first game of a doubleheader. The disastrous closing of the game fell on Cuban Aroldis Chapman, who accepted three runs in the final seventh inning. Smith (9) hit from all four corners in … Read more

Two Cuban-American players will be with the US at the Tokyo Olympics

Two Cuban American players will be with the US at the

Two Cuban-American players make up the official US roster for the Tokyo Olympics, an appointment to which the Cuban team, for the first time, failed to classify. Cuban Americans Nick Martínez and Eddy Álvarez they are part of the US roster, which includes 14 players with major league experience. The North American team appears as … Read more