The Trump administration on Monday blocked a historic agreement between Major Le...
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Monday blocked a historic agreement between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation that would have allowed Cuban players to sign with U.S. teams without needing to defect.
The move essentially overturns an agreement reached between MLB and the Cuban federation in December following three years of negotiation under which Cuban players would have been able to sign with major league teams. In the past, some Cuban stars have been smuggled off the island in speedboats. The senior Trump administration official suggested that the agreement would have subjected the players to “human trafficking” by the Cuban government and made them “pawns of the Cuba dictatorship.”
The announcement came just days after the Cuban federation released a list of players authorized to sign contracts directly with MLB organizations.
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