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Cuban players will reportedly be free to sign with MLB

CiberCuba, a website based in Spain and dedicated to informing Cubans worldwide, has published a story, that according to an anonymous official “close to a Major League organization” MLB has signed an agreement with the Cuban government’s National Institute of Sports, Education and Recreation (INDER) allowing MLB to sign players currently living in Cuba.

Full disclosure: I am currently under contract to 18 of the 30 MLB teams to provide them with a variety of statistics, obtained from INDER, in all it’s leagues ranging from players as young as 13 up to the National Series.

Reportedly there are three main points to the agreement (as translated by Google)

1.