At least age 23 and he has to have played three seasons in Cuban professional leagues (it's five years for players coming from the NPB or KBO). When does Abreu become available? Badler was really talking him up too. He's already 26 so whenever he wants to/is able to defect. Usually defecting stuff is kept pretty quiet, as some have talked about on here, so it's entirely possible he's in the process of defecting right now. Makes sense, given that Badler said he could step right into the majors. I have to think the bidding would be right around Cespedes. Hopefully the Cubs wouldn't let him go this time. He's a 1B so unless we plan on moving Rizzo or he can play OF/3B I doubt we'd have a ton of interest. He seems pretty athletic, or at least athletic enough, that he should be able to be passable in the OF. I have no idea if he has any experience playing a something other than 1B or if he'd even be open to a change, however.