I heard that CUBA always beat AMERICA at Baseball why is this?

Answer 1

IN THE CARIBBEAN, BASEBALL IS KING.

Answer 2

I have played against the Cuban National team while participating in a tournament in Cuba. They are great players, but to be totally honest, if you were to put their National Team into the Major Leagues and play a 162 game schedule against other MLB teams they would be hard pressed to be .500. Their teams are built to play games in a tournament type setting, not for the long haul. In baseball, it is very easy to have success in short tournament type situations. Where Cuba would have trouble stacking up over the long haul is that they don't have the pitching depth the U.S. does. In the game I played against them we saw their #4 starter and he was nothing, the 2 relievers that followed him were nothing, then the closer came in and he WAS something. The biggest reason for the lopsided nature of the Cuba-U.S. match-ups in international competition is that for the most part their pros are playing our college kids. The reason the Cubans did well at last years WBC is the same reason the Asian countries did so well, they were in game shape already. The U.S. players and some of the South American/Carribean players were not in mid-season shape since their season had not begun yet. You play that same tournament in mid-July and my feelings are that the U.S. wins it. Heck, the Japs won the tournament but when the MLB all-stars went over at the end of the year for their 5 game tour against the Jap all-stars, MLB won it 5-0! I would suspect the same thing would happen should they ever be able to arrange an all-star series against the Cubans.

Answer 3

Not always. Aaron Sele pitched the only shutout against them in this international / Olympics type of play (at least it was the only one at the time it happened, pre '93ish)

Baseball is Cuba's national pastime. They love the game, they play it as soon as they can walk in some form or another. As in communist USSR, the kids are singled out young and put into sports schools. They aren't just into baseball, other sports are big too. If a kid shows potential in baseball, they go to a school that focuses on baseball mainly. They do normal school stuff too. This means they are given much more training that US ballplayers from a young age. Year round ball helps too.

Look at the Cuban players that have made it to the US. They are usually really good, at least for a time. Jose Canseco, Rafael Palmeiro, Yuniesky Betancourt, El Duque Hernandez....

In the WBC we got a chance to see them play. I was impressed. It's definitely a different style of ball than we see in the MLB. They're scrappers, they play small ball and don't rely on the cheap long ball like our boys do. Maybe the men with machine guns in their dugout motivate them. :)

Answer 4

The Cuban weather is ideal for playing baseball all year long. The players that are on their National Team are products of the school system that plays an extended season.
The National Team are professional calibre players that consistently beat our team, MLB teams and other countries teams.

Answer 5

The reason why Cuba usually beats the USA in internation play is because Cuba sends in their professional ball players from their league, who should be in MLB but aren't allowed, meanwhile USA sends in their college amateur players.

Answer 6

I don't know exactly how many wins and losses.
Anyway, Cuba plays with National pride.
USA doesn't even form the best possible team because of the MLB schedules and indivisual concerns.

Answer 7

There's nowt else to do on Cuba so they should be good

Answer 8

baseball sucks hockey rules.