A team Baseball Cuban could be present in the Caribbean series of 2026 in Venezuelawhere an extension of the quorum is projected to eight participating nations and an unpublished celebration in three stages.
In statements to ESPN Digital, Giuseppe Palmesano, president of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), confirmed that he has on the table requests from several countries to participate in the tournament and “which has already been spoken with Cuba to participate and complete the eight teams” .
“We have already talked with Cuba, we are very interested in his baseball, of course Italy is an option that we are handling, the same South Korea, equal Japan Breeze,” the director told the middle.
If this interest arrives, in the 2026 edition, the representatives of the four leagues of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation (CBPC): Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela will participate.
These would be joined, in addition to the Cuban cast, the Japanese Brezzes Japan – invited in the 2025 edition – and representatives of the South Korean leagues and Italy, as the Dominican Juan Francisco Puelllo Herrera, commissioner of the CBPC, recently confirmed.
So far the Cuban Baseball and Suffault Federation (FCBS) has not confirmed conversations on this subject, or with the Caribbean Confederation, or with the authorities of the Venezuelan Professional League, which would be in charge of organizing the next Caribbean series.
Precisely in the Venezuelan Margarita Island, headquarters of the 2014 version, the return of a Cuban team to these leaders, of which she was founder was completed.
For a long time, the Cuban Federation tried to re -enter as a CBPC member, which came out shortly after the professional sport was eliminated after the triumph of the 1959 revolution.
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A year after that return with the sugars of Villa Clara, the best result came with the coronation of Los Vegueros de Pinar del Ríos in the fair that welcomed San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The island’s teams continued to receive invitations to venture into the following calls, but the interest of the organizers began to reduce from their discreet performances and the need to raise the level of the tournament.
The last Cuban presence in the Caribbean Series was also completed in Venezuela, when its capital hosted the call of 2023. There the farmers led by Carlos Martí they gave in their six presentations.
It remains to be seen how baseball authorities in Cuba react to the new possibility, since as a result of the absences to the two most recent tournaments, they decided to rearrange the calendars of the national competitions that had previously adjusted to participate in the series.
Cuba among the founders of New Baseball Association in America
In addition, it was involved in the foundation of the Baseball Association of the Americas (Abam), together with the Federations of Panama, Argentina, Curacao, Nicaragua and Colombia, which had not managed to enter the CBPC.
That entity convened and organized the first series of the Americas in the capital of Nicaragua, which was attended by the libators of the Tunas as Cuban champions, and was won by the Metropolitan Eagles of Panama.
