Republicans are taking aim at the new MLB-Cuba posting agreement

A little over a week ago Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) announced an agreement on a posting system that would allow players to join the league without having to defect. The deal allows Cuban ballplayers of a certain age and experience level to play in the United States and return to their home country freely, just as players from other countries can. In exchange, a portion of their bonuses will go to the FCB, just as posting fees for players from Asia go to their Asian teams.

It is hoped that the system will curtail the often dangerous process by which players obtain residency in countries like Mexico, where human traffickers and other unsavory types can threaten them and take advantage of them. Less nobly, the age restrictions will keep Cuban players in their teens and early 20s out of the United States, thereby eliminating a class of expensive free agents.

There are always tradeoffs, of course, and while the posting system may curtail player earnings and prevent some Cuban players from obtaining large free agent deals, it seems like it’ll also remedy a dangerous and unlawful system. A system which, at present, is the subject of a federal grand jury looking into all manner of illegalities and abuses.

The system, though, is now coming under fire from Senator Marco Rubio, who ows to put a stop to it before it begins:

The article Senator Rubio links lays out the specifics of it all. It argues — as Rubio argues — that President Trump should reverse the Obama-era Treasury Department’s ruling allowing Major League Baseball to negotiate the deal as an exception to the continued existence of the Cuban Embargo.

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