CBL News: First-Year Player Draft
First-year players are drafted today in the Cuban Baseball League while front offices buzz with anticipation and opinion from GM to receptionist. The initial picks go to <Matanzas:team#315>, <Cienfuegos:team#313>, <Guantanamo:team#322>, <Santiago de Cuba:team#324> and <Holguin:team#323> and the favorites to be selected, according to the BNN reports, are ranked as follows:


1. <Domingo Hernández:player#3366>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
2. <Carlos González:player#3394>, 20 year-old catcher out of college.
3. <Bernardo Reynoso:player#3315>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
4. <Raúl Valdéz:player#3382>, 17 year-old starting pitcher out of high-school.
5. <Juan Carlos Rivera:player#3367>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
6. <Santiago Vargas:player#3371>, 18 year-old first baseman out of high-school.
7. <Jorge Ramírez:player#4623>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
8. <Francisco Vélez:player#3322>, 18 year-old right fielder out of high-school.
9. <Jaime Blanco:player#3343>, 18 year-old second baseman out of high-school.
10. <Jorge Sandoval:player#3349>, 17 year-old left fielder out of high-school.