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LazerTown
Let the frenzy begin.
East Coast Bias
Yanks should try to get this guy. We didn’t have space for the OF and 1B players coming over from Cuba, but middle infield is a huge weakness for the team. I hope they make a competitive offer, if everything else checks out with Olivera.
Marc
Agreed. He’s a Yankee.
JacobyWanKenobi
Unless Prado is starting at shortstop every day I don’t see it. I’d rather get a SS, have Prado play 2nd and see what happens with Refsynder.
bucsws2014
You’d think that by now, the Cuban government would catch on that nobody really wants to stay there.
LazerTown
Do you think they are unaware?
The people in the top are able to be best off with the current situation, and thus everything else falls into place.
Elsalvaje
He’s MLB ready, great ball player!!
Marc
I hope he’s ready; he’ll be 30 next season.
charlesk
The Jays need him
douglasb
so who are the 5 better players in Cuba and why haven’t they left?
Morley C
Because it’s their home. A lot of people would rather stay there and work for change than move somewhere else and leave their families behind.
Plus, nationalism, climate, pre-existing fame.
Elsalvaje
Because that is a big Prision, they put their life in risk to be free and play where they belong at the maximum level.
liberalconservative
Oakland needs him. He would love it in Oakland and can become a allstar.
Flash Gordon
These Cuban signings are going to take a turn for the worse here eventually. I’m sure the best players such as Cespedes, Puig, Soler, Abreu, Chapman are already here. More young phenoms will come along but I’d be wary of the direction this market is headed. I’ve been watching Rusney Castillo with the Red Sox and I’m concerned. While his defense looks fine perhaps better, his speed on the base paths and out of the box is not as elite as everyone said. Furthermore I have a hard time seeing him prospering offensively. Every swing is from his heels. He does not stay through the zone for long. I’m just having a hard time seeing anything good with him. Their will still be good players coming over here but a lot of these guys coming here right now in their late twenties are signing contracts above and beyond what they are worth. The Cuban market is no longer the market inefficiency that is was.
John Q Ballplayer
Blue Jays. 3 years, 30 million. You heard it here first.
DAKINS
So you’re saying he fits the Jays’ needs nicely? I’m listening….