{"id":695586,"date":"2018-12-19T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=695586"},"modified":"2018-12-19T19:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:52:14","slug":"mlb-union-cuba-reach-deal-for-players-to-play-in-us-without-defecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=695586","title":{"rendered":"MLB, union, Cuba reach deal for players to play in US without defecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/mlb-union-cuba-reach-deal-for-players-to-sign\/18075565\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/baseball\/mlb\/2018\/12\/19\/18075690\/5c1ac55347cda-media_d7d735ff782649d48ec03b570d5c0062-DMID1-5h6th3mor-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"MLB_Cuba_Agreement_Baseball_71382\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball, its players&#8217; association and the Cuban Baseball Federation reached an agreement that will allow players from the island to sign big league contracts without defecting, an effort to eliminate the dangerous trafficking that had gone on for decades. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/mlb-union-cuba-reach-deal-for-players-to-sign\/18075565\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/mlb-union-cuba-reach-deal-for-players-to-sign\/18075565\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"MLB, union, Cuba reach deal for players to play in US without defecting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball, its players&#8217; association and the Cuban Baseball Federation reached an agreement that will allow players from the island to sign big league contracts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}