Team Cuba catcher Ivan Prieto defected to the United States during the World Baseball Classic. Prieto reportedly did not return home to Cuba on Monday following the team’s 14-2 loss to Team USA in the ...

Ivan Prieto Gonzalez, Team Cuba’s bullpen catcher for the World Baseball Classic, defected in Miami on Monday, a day after his team lost to Team USA in the semifinals at loanDepot Park. Prieto did not ...

MIAMI — Jose Vilela fled Cuba for the United States when he was 14 years old after spending six months in a concentration camp. Like many of his compatriots, he settled in Miami's Cuban neighborhood, ...

MIAMI (AP) — 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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Following a loss to Team USA in the World Baseball Classic in Miami, one player from the Cuban team did not board his plane back to Havana. Instead, reports say catcher Iván ...

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 ...

Runs will be hard to come by, but if Great Britain can carry a lead into the ninth inning they’ll have a big arm ready.

You don’t have to follow baseball to be riveted by the details of Yasiel Puig’s defection. His extraordinary journey from Cienfuegos, Cuba, to Los Angeles by way of Mexico is complete with smuggling, ...

The Trump administration on Monday said it blocked a historic agreement that allowed Cuban baseball players to join a Major League Baseball team without having to defect because it enriched the Cuban ...