The biggest news in baseball last week wasn’t a trade or signing, but the announcement of a new agreement between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) on an improved way to transfer talent between organizations. Most of this comes out of a mutual desire to lessen the impact of human traffickers and build a safer model for baseball players to pursue the highest levels of competition, and it also presents an opportunity for teams to tap into new veins of talent.
If you’re familiar with the Japanese posting system, you’ll catch up with the new process in Cuba pretty quickly.