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Cuba will play at Miami’s loanDepot park Sunday against the winner of the semifinal game between Venezuela and the United States. A look at Cuba’s World Baseball Classic team and how it ...
Cuba competed in the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic (WBC) tournament, despite the controversy of Cuban involvement and the United States embargo against Cuba. In the final, Cuba lost the gold medal to Japan, 10–6. Cuba was originally slated to host the 2009 Baseball World Cup, however, they willingly gave up the honor to Europe.
The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, [4] is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), [a] the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
Since the Cuban Revolution, the official Baseball Federation of Cuba has largely restricted Cuban players to the amateur domestic league system.Players signing contracts with Major League Baseball were considered defectors and were not seen as eligible to represent Cuba in international competition, like the Baseball World Cup and later, the World Baseball Classic.
The 2009 tournament is the only World Baseball Classic in which every team had appeared in at least one of the previous tournament. Prior to all 16 teams that participated in the 2006 tournament were invited to the tournament that year. The total number of teams that have participated in the World Baseball Classic until the 2023 edition is 23.
The qualifying round of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, officially called the World Baseball Classic 2025 Qualifiers, will be held from February 21 to March 6, 2025. The top four teams in each pool of the 2023 World Baseball Classic automatically qualified for the 2026 tournament.
Yosvani Pérez Ruiz (born January 23, 1974, in Rodas, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba) is a left-handed pitcher for Cienfuegos of the Cuban National Series, and the Cuban national baseball team. [1] [2] Pérez was part of the Cuban roster at the 2006 World Baseball Classic.