Without Castro, could Cuban stars move to majors?
Without Castro, could Cuban stars move to majors? Wednesday February 20, 2008#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) As Cubans celebrate the end of Fidel Castro’s reign in Cuba, there have to be a few baseball prospects who are anxious to see what happens next. Castro, himself a baseball player decades ago, helped develop a program that’s won three Olympic gold medals in the four Olympics it’s been played. But unlike Dominican or Puerto Rican players, Cubans rarely play in the majors because they must defect to play in the United States. And if they defect, they might never get to go home again. There are a few in the majors, most notably Mets pitcher Orlando Hernandez, his half-brother, Livan Hernandez (now of the Minnesota Twins) and Chicago White So
