There was an interview back in the early 1990s, where a baseball scout was asked about how many Cuban players could walk out and play pro-ball immediately, and his response was a minimum of forty players are talented enough to be on major league teams, with another hundred needing a year or two in the minors to make it.
What I suspect is that some baseball owner is in the middle of this...hoping to get an angle to move his team into Cuba within three years. My suggestion? Tampa Bay Rays, the Oakland A’s, or the Miami Marlins. They are all marginally surviving in their current environment, and zero profit (as least Forbes says that).
The problem is that no idiot in Havana would pay more than $3 for a entry ticket to a game. And even with a massive change in US relations.....it’s twenty years of recovery required before any team could market itself in Havana and sustain the operating costs.
An MLB team move to Cuba? LOL. No chance.
But it would be a good thing if MLB caliber Cuban players were allowed to come here freely, where the best players in the world belong.