Few times has the training of a Cuban baseball team for the principal international event left so many doubts. The island’s team that is in Barranquilla was not good at all in its preparatory meets and has set off the alarms among fans and specialists. Not even the crushing victory (15x4) of the farewell at home against the U.S. university students served as a tranquilizer: barely four victories in 10 games, counting what was done in Venezuela and Colombia, is a concerning result not only for the Central American and Caribbean Games, but also as a compass of Cuban baseball’s current moment. Let’s start by the end, with the game against the Americans. In a practically empty Latin American Stadium, in which the small amount of public booed more than once the local players, Cuba lost the first three games, in which they only scored one run and barely connected 12. In those games the bats froze before the pitching of some quality university students who have field experience. Meanwhile, the Cubans looked like schoolchildren, with little discipline in the batting mound and inadmissible tactical faults among men with long experience on the island and several months of training. Moreover,...