Deinis Suárez Laguardia (born March 13, 1984) is a Cuban former

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right-handed

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. Suárez pitched for

Industriales Industriales is a professional baseball team in the Cuban National Series. Located in Cerro, La Habana, it is known as the only team representing the country’s capital, Havana. Industriales is historically the most successful team in the Nat ...

of the

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and the Cuban national baseball team. He was part of the Cuban roster for the 2006 World Baseball Classic. Suárez was 8–3 with a 3.55 ERA for Industriales during the 2005-06 season. Suárez defected from Cuba and signed with the

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in April 2011. He pitched in 2011 for the New Britain Rock Cats of the Class-AA Eastern League and

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of the Class-AAA

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