11. Garcia and Estefan are also Cuban defectors. 12. He became the first U.S.-based Cuban defector to win a world championship when he took the WBA title in May and has dominated every fight since. 13. He would be the most recent Cuban defector to sign with a major league club with Cubas as the intermediary. 14. Hernandez, the Cuban defector with the high leg kick and sliding arm angle, has been virtually untouchable in his two years of playing in October. 15. If the owners needed any incentive to go global with the draft, they got it with the negotiations of the two Cuban defectors. 16. Instead of seeking asylum in the United States, as other Cuban defectors had, Fernandez and Hernandez gained resident status in the Dominican Republic. 17. In the past, Cuban defectors were available only through the annual amateur draft. 18. Instead, he said, he is caught up in an elaborate counterespionage effort involving Cuban defectors to exchange Cuban military secrets for U.S. technology secrets. 19. Jorge Diaz, Cuban defector and second-base hopeful for the Rangers, spent Monday at the American consulate in the Dominican Republic, resubmitting his visa application. 20. Now comes an increasing flow of Cuban defectors into the baseball mainstream, and the age question begins to rise again. |