Cuban Thaw Seen Creating ‘Open Season’ on Signings for MLB Teams
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Major League Baseball teams might have an “open season” signing Cuban players now that the U.S. and the island nation are taking steps to normalize relations, a baseball historian and Latin American studies professor said.
President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro’s agreement, which begins to mend diplomatic relations that were severed in January 1961, has the potential to open up the country’s baseball to MLB teams looking to sign the best players, said Adrian Burgos Jr., a Latin American history professor at the University of Illinois who’s written several books on baseball.