Reports out of the Dominican Republic say Cuban star Yulieski Gourriel and his younger brother Lourdes slipped out of a team hotel in an apparent attempt to jump to the major leagues.
While U.S. and Cuban officials having been working on a legal framework for Cuban players to come to the States, no agreement is yet in place, so the Gourriel brothers will have to first establish residency in the Dominican or another country. "Nobody was expecting this," Cuban baseball historian Ismael Sene told the AP. But maybe they should have.
Back in February of 2014, Yulieski told Jesse Sanchez of MLB.