The 17-year old's reported deal will consist of a bonus worth $375,000, fully guaranteed. He is the third Cuban international ...

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 ...

From the global stage of the inaugural World Baseball Classic to a defining defensive play in one of the most iconic ...

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.

Cuba was long viewed as one of the powerhouses of international baseball. Outside of the first iteration of the World Baseball Classic, in which it lost in the Finals to Japan, the Cuban team has yet ...

MIAMI — A month before their fellow major leaguers will report for spring training, Aroldis Chapman, Yuli Gurriel and several other Cuban big leaguers assembled on an intimate field in Miami this week ...

Cuban baseball player César Prieto, a highly touted 22-year-old infielder, ditched the Cuban national team Wednesday and defected to the United States. Prieto and his then-teammates arrived in Florida ...

HAVANA (AP) — Could a new wave of Cuban baseball players be headed for the majors in America without having to defect from the communist island? Cuba announced Friday that athletes from all sports ...

Corban is the first-ever collegiate baseball team to travel to Cuba on a Missions Trip with the intent on sharing the gospel and playing baseball as well. Danny Day, Sports Information Director ...

Just about every Cuban boy hopes to play baseball for the national team in the Olympics. It is only when that wish is taken away -- as it was from Francisley Bueno -- that thoughts turn to America.

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Team USA battles Cuba in the first game of a five game series Wednesday in Cary. Contests between these countries over the years have always carried meaning beyond the diamond.