Cuba national baseball team

The Cuba national baseball team (Spanish: Selección de béisbol de Cuba) also known as "Team Asere", represents Cuba in baseball at regional and international levels. The team is generally made up of players from the domestic Cuban national baseball system, though it has at times included players who defected to the United States. Cuba was described in 2009 as a baseball powerhouse and currently ranks 12th in World Baseball Softball Confederation's world rankings.

For much of the 20th century, Cuba dominated tournaments such as the Baseball World Cup (originally, the Amateur World Series), where it won 26 titles (22 more than the next-closest nation) between 1939 and 2005. Its success stemmed, in part, from the nominally amateur status of its domestic league, as professional players from other leagues were largely excluded from international competition. During this period, it enjoyed similar dominance at the Pan American Games and the Central American and Caribbean Games.

Cuba has been the most successful national team at the Olympics, medaling in five of the six Olympics in which baseball was played, with three gold medals and two silver medals. It has the distinction of being one of two nations to compete in the first five baseball contests at the Summer Olympic Games.

The Cuba national baseball have competed in the 2026 World Baseball Classic in March 2026, but were met with a shocking exit on Pool A, losing to both hosts Puerto Rico and surprising upstart Canada despite winning against Panama and Colombia, with Cuba having been eliminated for the very first time in a World Baseball Classic tournament.