Major League Baseball announced on Friday that Derek Jeter will be part of the entourage that will make the trip to Cuba where the Tampa Bay Rays will play the Cuban National Team.
It is not surprising that Jeter will take on a more active role as an ambassador to the game now that he is retired, and he may have made the trip no matter which team was going. But with the Rays playing in Cuba, this move is just going to further fuel speculation that Jeter will someday either join the Stuart Sternberg ownership group or he will front another group that works to buy the team from Sternberg.