Cespedes, Cuba News

When Yoenis Cespedes signed a four-year, $36 million contract with the A's in February, his representatives say he agreed to pay 17-percent of his total income to the Born To Play Academy in the Dominican Republic, and 5-percent more to the Wasserman Group, the company which represented him in contract negotiations with the A's. According to an ... (more)

For those of you on Twitter, you may want to follow @CespedesAtBat . Created after Kevin Goldstein labeled Cespedes "the Cuban Bo Jackson" and wondered why such a thing didn't already exist, the account sends alerts when Cespedes is on deck or at bat, and reports the outcomes of the at bats.

Cespedes' extraordinary power and five-tool capabilities are the main stories in these parts, especially because he refuses to discuss politics or the circumstances in which he defected from Cuba.

Doorgunner : Sr. Eire: Left on my own in 1969, 14 years old. Franciscan priest Antonio Camin~as put us up in barracks... asombra : Cespedes, whose chief or only merit appears to be the lineage of which he has proved quite unworthy, is even... The Miami Marlins manager apologized on Saturday for telling a magazine that he loves Fidel Castro, a ... (more)

Despaigne hit two homers on Tuesday to lift his season total to 35, breaking the old record of 33 shared by Yoenis Cespedes , who now plays for the Oakland Athletics , and Jose Dariel Abreu.