The Cuban baseball team is one powerful magnet. It has attracted scouts from across Major League Baseball to the World Baseball Challenge.
One of those talent-seekers is Tim Hallgren, who is in Prince George on behalf of the Detroit Tigers. Hallgren, from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is here primarily to watch the Cubans, who are favoured to win the six-team tournament being played at Citizen Field.
"We didn't really have a guy to come up here to see the Cubans play," Hallgren said. "They [the Tigers] asked me if I could do it and I said, 'Yeah, I can do it.' They want to have reports on file just in case, in the future, Cuba does open up to signing free agents. Or sometimes you get defectors. We want to make sure we have scouting reports on the Cubans so in case we do want to try to sign them, we do have reports."
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