"Defecting Baseball Players Throw Sports Agent a Curve" This is the title of an article from law.com about defecting players and their agents:

After Cuban baseball standouts Maels Rodriguez and Yobal Duenas defected to Mexico aboard a fishing boat, they allegedly staged a defection of another sort.



According to a lawsuit filed in Miami, they abruptly switched agents, from MVP Sports Management to Jaime Torres Sports Management. Torres also represents their friend, Chicago White Sox pitcher Jose Contreras. Miami-based MVP claims that Torres and Contreras interfered with its contractual relationship with the two Cubans.



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On Nov. 3, MVP filed suit against the two Cuban ballplayers, Contreras and Torres. The complaint in Miami-Dade Circuit Court claims that Contreras and Torres tortiously interfered with Duenas and Rodriguez's contracts with MVP by luring them away, and that Duenas and Rodriguez breached their contracts.



"We were provided information that led us to the conclusion that Jose Contreras was involved," said David K. Friedland, a partner at Lott & Friedland in Coral Gables who is representing MVP. "He and Duenas were close in Cuba."

This is an interesting subject that I have never considered. You can read the entire article here.

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