Renowned Cuban baseball player Yulieski Gurriel, who is striving to stay in Major League Baseball at 40, recently reflected ...

For baseball players, like former Houston Astros star Yulieski Gurriel, and boxers, like 2021 Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz, it's more common to establish residency in a third country ...

Mickey Rooney as "Mr. Yunioshi," Breakfast at Tiffany's (1963) Source: Public domain During Game 2 of the 2017 World Series, Houston Astros first baseman Yulieski Gurriel homered off struggling ...

In 2016, both of Gurriel's sons - Yulieski and Lourdes Jr. - defected to Haiti. Yuli soon joined Alvarez as a member of the Astros while Gurriel would ink a contract with the Toronto Blue Jays ...

Let’s GOOOO H-Town. #LevelUp #World Series" - @ Yulieski Gurriel Gurriel is hitting .349 this postseason and is one of the best contact hitters in the game. If he is to sit out Game 6 ...

Houston has a projected lineup with Yordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker, Yulieski Gurriel, Chas McCormick and Aledmys Diaz, who all have a .200 ISO or better against lefties over the last two seasons.

Players like Jose Abreu, Aroldis Chapman, Yasiel Puig, Yulieski Gurriel—and Yoenis Cespedes—have all left for the major leagues, leaving the domestic league much weaker than it once was.

Yulieski Gurriel, 33, was born into a baseball family in Cuba. He was a standout there on the diamond - where baseball is the most-played sport. He played for the primary Cuban league and the ...

Gurriel started at first base and went 1-for-4 in Friday's 3-2 win over the Rangers. Gurriel returned to the active roster Friday after spending the first two weeks of the season on the disabled ...

Half of that damage came on a Yulieski Gurriel blast that evened up a seemingly insurmountable 4-1 Dodgers lead. That was just the beginning. A parade of relievers followed: By the time the night ...