Cuban baseball players intensify training even as they wait on US visas to take part in the World Baseball Classic in March ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Star Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother slipped away from their hotel in the Dominican Republic early Monday in an apparent effort to launch ...

For years, the Cuban pipeline into Major League Baseball has involved a bit of a seedy underbelly, but an agreement between MLB, its players' association and the Cuban Baseball Federation plans to ...

Blue Jays pitching prospect, RHP Silvano Hechavarria, will not be part of Cuba’s roster for the 2026 World Baseball Classic, ...

HAVANA -- A lineup of Cuban-born baseball stars, including some of the most famous defectors in recent memory, made a triumphant return to the island Tuesday as part of the first Major League Baseball ...

LOS ANGELES -- It's a lesson in sheer determination. A baseball player from Cuba has been sleeping on the sidewalk outside Dodger Stadium for 17 days, waiting and dreaming about one thing: baseball.

— -- About this time last summer, two federal investigations into the smuggling of Cuban baseball players to the United States were gathering momentum. Most Cuban defectors on Major League ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Two Cuban baseball players defected in Puerto Rico, where a squad from their country is playing in the Caribbean Series against four other Latin American teams, Cuban sports ...