Cuban pitcher Yeudis Reyes Gamboa, 28, from Guantánamo, became the third player to escape from the

national team that recently won the Caribbean Cup, held in Puerto Rico.

According to sports reporter Francys Romero on his

Facebook profile, the right-handed pitcher left "team Cuba at the airport before returning from Puerto Rico. Reyes participated with Cuba in the V World Baseball Classic. With this departure, a total of 53 Cuban athletes have abandoned delegations or contracts during 2023."

Reyes had been in Miami in March of this year during the V World Baseball Classic, which took place

in its semifinal stage at LoanDepot, and returned to the island, but apparently realized he had no future as a player there.

The pitcher is from Ciro Frías, in the municipality of Manuel Tames, and made his debut on August

29, 2016, with the Indios del Guaso team in the 56th National Series of Baseball. Over his career, after six series, he has accumulated an earned run average of 3.61 in 116 games pitched.

On the same day, October 9,

the escape of talented Cuban player Osday Silva, 30, was reported, who fled from the baseball delegation that won the V Caribbean Cup. Silva escaped from the concentration early in the morning, according to a report by sports journalist Francys Romero.

Romero indicated that sources close to the matter assured him that the Santiago native "left the Cuba

team participating in the V Caribbean Cup in Puerto Rico early Monday."

A little earlier, pitcher Franky Quintana, 28, from Isla de la Juventud, had also escaped from the

concentration in Puerto Rico. "Quintana was on Cuba's preliminary roster for the V World Baseball Classic 2023 and participated in the tour of Asia with the team," Romero recalled.

In relation to this news, at the end of September of this year, Cuban infielder Yobanys Millán Blanco

fled from the concentration of the Alazanes de Granma team, which finished in fourth place in the I Champions League of this discipline, held in Yucatán, Mexico.

In less than a month, four young talents of Cuban baseball have escaped from delegations abroad.

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