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Mariners News: M’s Sign Cuban Defector Dainer Moreira

The Mariners continue to sign players to fill their camp. Last year during the Caribbean Series in early February, Dainer Moreira and Vladimir Guerrero from the Cuban team walked out of the hotel they were staying at in Puerto Rico to defect and establish residency so that they could join their countrymen like Leonys Martin in the Major Leagues.

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Cuban defectors usually try to seek residence in a third country to be able to make more money as free agents. If they establish residence in the United States or Puerto Rico, a U.