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 ...

Cuban representation in MLB peaks with 26 players, but legal barriers, smuggling risks and shrinking domestic leagues keep careers fraught with obstacles.

Cuban baseball player Ivan Prieto Gonzalez defected in Miami after Cuba’s 14-2 loss to the United States in a World Baseball Classic semifinal at loanDepot park. Gonzalez served as Cuba’s bullpen ...

A member of Cuba's beleaguered CONCACAF Gold Cup squad has defected in the United States, coach Raul Mederos said on Tuesday. Speaking in Denver, Mederos confirmed that midfielder Yasmani Lopez had ...

Most Cuban defectors on Major League Baseball rosters, and many in the minor leagues, faced interviews by investigators from the Department of Homeland Security or the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cincinnati Reds have had a long relationship with Cuba, including some of the first Cuban players and a farm team, the ...

HAVANA (AP) --When President Barack Obama watches the Tampa Bay Rays play Cuba's national team Tuesday, it will come at the deepest moment of crisis in more than 50 years for the island's famed ...

EXCLUSIVE: A drama series about one of the figures involved in a high-stakes operation to smuggle Cuban baseball players into the U.S. is in the works. Julio Estrada is the figure in question. The ...