Category talk:Cuban National Team Players

We're up to 50 entries. - --Mischa 12:18, 3 March 2008 (EST)

Our 4th country to 100, following the US (over 300), Japan and South Korea. It should be noted that all 3 of those other countries turn over their rosters much more frequently so we may have a higher percentage of people who have ever played for Cuba; on the other hand, Cuba has fielded international squads for over 80 years whereas Japan and South Korea only go back about 50. - --Mischa 20:02, 23 April 2009 (EDT)

150 entries, following the USA, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan to that figure. - --Mischa 12:55, 21 September 2010 (EDT)

The great Natilla Jiménez is #200. Only the US (over 400) and Japan (232) have more - --Mischa 11:28, 21 September 2012 (EDT)

Urbano González gets us to 250. The US (just over 500) and Japan (275) remain ahead. - --Mischa (talk) 12:01, 10 June 2015 (EDT)

Esteban Maciques puts it at 300. The USA (546) and Japan (343) are still the only countries ahead. South Korea had passed them again briefly but Cuba passed them up with players from the 1920s-1940s, before South Korea even existed. If I keep up adding players from pre-1960, they'll likely pass Japan at some point as I haven't found English-language rosters for Japanese teams prior to 1978 - --Mischa (talk) 23:27, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Ariel Martínez is the 350th player. Still about the same distance behind the US (600) and Japan (387) - Mischa (talk) 18:33, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Yudier Rodríguez gets us to 400, still #3. They've fallen further behind the US (701) and are about as far behind Japan (432) while the Dominicans have been closing ground (381). Given that the Dominican teams have had much more turnover in recent years than Cuba, I could see them catching up as we had more pages. - Mischa (talk) 16:46, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Our 450th is Jonathan Carbó. Down to 5th, well behind both Japan (Rugosa found the pre-1978 rosters I had been unable to locate as of my 2018 note above and filled in all the red links) and the US and now also trailing the Dominicans (as predicted in '21) and Taiwan (thanks to Rugosa's work on finding older rosters and then filling in all the red links). - Mischa (talk) 17:34, 8 February 2024 (UTC)