Major-league organizations are always looking for pitching.  Therefore, it's no surprise that they are looking at the pitching talent down in communist Cuba.  As I've been told, there are many hard-throwing young pitchers playing ball down in the island. Over the years, the MLB has required these players to defect, and then they are signed by a team.  I'm talking about Jose Abreu, Aroldis Chapman, and Yoenis Cespedes, to a few more. According to the Los Angeles Times, baseball wants to change directions: Major League Baseball presented a proposal that would allow clubs to sign players out of Cuba beginning next year, rather than forcing them to first defect from the country and establish residency elsewhere, to teams at the winter meetings in Las Vegas last week, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The plan, which resembles the posting system for Japanese players, stipulated major league teams...(Read Full Post)