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Originally Posted by lukasberger
I don't entirely agree with those rankings, in fact I discussed them somewhere around here them a while ago. They underrate Korea and overrate the Euro leagues a bit but still, overall they aren't far off. Pretty good in general though there are also some factual errors in the article. f.e. Korea doesn't feed into the *** at all really, there are maybe 2 Korean players in the *** and Taiwan barely feeds the *** any more than that, with maybe 10 players or so.
As for Cuba, it's definitely below the Atlantic League. Probably below the American Association as well.
Cuba's lost so much top talent in recent years and the young guys coming into the league haven't adequately replaced the lost talent. Cuba still has better top end guys than say the Atlantic League does, but it's bench guys and even some starter types are way below American pro caliber. They're more like American HS type players honestly. A lot of 16-17 year olds and a few 40 year olds as well.
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Re-reading this, I sound too negative. This is a good article and good link, my comments are really only meant to clarify a couple things.