{"id":37,"date":"2004-06-23T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/2004\/06\/23\/the-cuban-baseball-exodus-continues-m"},"modified":"2004-06-23T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T02:37:40","slug":"the-cuban-baseball-exodus-continues-mostly-unnoticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/2004\/06\/23\/the-cuban-baseball-exodus-continues-mostly-unnoticed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cuban baseball exodus continues, mostly unnoticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a49'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>ESPN.com&#8217;s Jayson Stark mentions as a footnote to his &#8220;Rumblings and Grumblings&#8221; piece today that &#8220;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Four more Cuban players have defected in the last month &#8212; a list topped by the best young Cuban position player in years, 20-year-old first baseman Kendry Morales. But teams we&#8217;ve surveyed are a little unsure about the other three. So their agent, Bill Rego, has lined up a July 6-7 showcase for them in Torreon, Mexico. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Catcher-DH Barabaro Canizares &#8212; who once hit cleanup behind Morales for the Industriales team in Havana &#8212; is the biggest name. The others are first baseman Mitchel Abreu and pitcher Yosandy Ibanez. &#8220;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN.com&#8217;s Jayson Stark mentions as a footnote to his &#8220;Rumblings and Grumblings&#8221; piece today that &#8220; Four more Cuban players have defected in the last month &#8212; a list topped by the best young Cuban position player in years, 20-year-old first baseman Kendry Morales. But teams we&#8217;ve surveyed are a little unsure about the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kirkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}