Baseball players have been fleeing Cuba to play baseball in the U.S. for decades but even the recent increase in 'legal' exits aren't without risks. In some cases, it is putting ‘a young baseball player in a very vulnerable position.’
that would have allowed players to leave Cuba without having to use smugglers or sneak away during foreign tournaments. with the players union,"is to end the dangerous trafficking of Cuban players who desire to play professional baseball in United States."
Fired by MLB in 2014 in the aftermath of its Biogenesis doping investigation, the former Boston police detective wrote"Baseball Cop: The Dark Side of America's National Pastime" in 2018. Dominguez, a Cuban native whose family left the island legally in 1966, believes MLB's process for signing Cuban players has long bred corruption.
In recent years, young international-caliber Cuban stars, such as Yoán Moncada of the White Sox, have managed to leave Cuba legally, securing government permission to fly to countries other than the U.S. "The who leave are the ones they want to leave; it’s not whoever wants to leave," Álvarez said."The process for me was something independent. It was a decision that I made and they tried to not permit it, but in one way or another I was able to do it."
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