Do you have any links showing the abuse 13 year old baseball players take in Cuba?

 

 

Well, since most are written in Spanish...Bjorkman would probably have some insight.

 

And someone writing a negative article about baseball factories in Latin America isn't exactly going to receive a warm reception from the folks down there.

 

 

I'll give you an example from basketball, though. The Chinese national team/government absolutely killed Yao Ming.

Well, since most are written in Spanish...Bjorkman would probably have some insight.

 

And someone writing a negative article about baseball factories in Latin America isn't exactly going to receive a warm reception from the folks down there.

 

 

I'll give you an example from basketball, though. The Chinese national team/government absolutely killed Yao Ming.

Basketball is much different than baseball and humans 7 feet 6 inches tall wind up with physical problems often. Cuba isn't trying to develop players to sign multi-million dollar contracts in the US. Besides if it was so abusive and Cubans age faster, how do you explain El Duque and Contreras, who both pitched until they were about 40 and some insiders swear 50 years old?

Edited March 30, 201412 yr by Dick Allen

Basketball is much different than baseball and humans 7 feet 6 inches tall wind up with physical problems often. Cuba isn't trying to develop players to sign multi-million dollar contracts in the US. Besides if it was so abusive and Cubans age faster, how do you explain El Duque and Contreras, who both pitched until they were about 40 and some insiders swear 50 years old?

 

I'm talking players like Pods, Jose Reyes, Chone Figgins...Roberto Alomar also comes to mind.

 

Not pitchers.

 

They are developing players to win international tournaments and the Olympics.