Until recently, if a baseball player from Cuba wanted a shot at playing Major League Baseball, he had to defect from the island with the help of criminal organizations as part of a treacherous journey to the United States. This was life under the communist government’s rule prior to 2018, when a deal was struck between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation that allows certain ballplayers to sign with MLB teams. When Cuba was a protectorate under the U.S. gov