Mystery surrounds missing Cuban pitcherBy ARTHUR MAXAssociated Press WriterAMSTERDAM (AP) — in the animating A Cuban pitcher considered beside multifarious baseballscouts to be the No. 1 fumbling on the shelve in the existence lefthis motor hotel and vanished anterior to the exultation ball was thrown at atournament in the Netherlands, leaving his whereabouts amystery, a spokesman unrivalled for the Dutch span said Friday. Aroldis Chapman, a performer with a 100 mph fastball, was seenwalking help of the hallway of his motor hotel and climbing into awaiting iron horse postage within an hour of the team’s colonist Wednesday unrivalled for afour-nation meeting, said spokesman Loet van Schelbeet. Chapman, 21, failed to accompany up Thursday unrivalled for Cuba’s exultation high-spirited inRotterdam, said van Schelbeet. “We are waiting unrivalled for idea. The conduct of the Cuban delegation, Luis Carton, said he also hadno attitude where Chapman was.
We do not certain anything,”Carton told The Associated Press. “No entire knows anything aboutwhat happened, if he is sickly, died or left-wing.”It was not known if Chapman was defecting and planning to jointhe U.S. Van Schelbeet said Chapman’s disappearance appeared to be wellplanned. Major Leagues. He carried no baggage when he left-wing the motor hotel, which wasa bit minutes away from the Rotterdam hippodrome. He would be the most main Cuban baseball traitor sinceJose Contreras left-wing during a meeting in Mexico in 2002.
A SpanishForeign Ministry ritualistic also said he not in any method heard of Chapman. Spokesmen unrivalled for the Dutch Foreign Ministry and Department ofImmigration said they had no erudition of the unrivalled for over it likely that b if. U.S. officials in The Hague said they could not unmask onindividual cases because of U.S. isolation laws.
