Rolando Viera
From Industriales to the Red Sox Without Defecting, and Cuba Branded Him a Traitor
He never defected: the Industriales pitcher left Cuba legally in 2001, and Cuba still banned him from baseball for life and erased the Viera name from his nephew's jersey. Then came the Red Sox, Pedro Martínez, Manny Ramírez and seven months in a COVID coma.
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