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PHOENIX -- Diamondbacks pitching prospect Yoan Lopez is considering quitting baseball a year after signing for an $8.27 million bonus as a Cuban free agent.Arizona confirmed Saturday night that Lopez, 23, left the Diamondbacks Double-A affiliate in Mobile, Alabama, recently and has yet to return to the team. Diamondbacks general manager Dave Stewart has since spoken to Lopez, and the pitcher agreed to take time to mull his future and not retire from baseball immediately.Lopez, a 6-foot-3, 185-pound right-hander, signed a minor league contract in January of 2015. After going 1-6 with a 4.69 ERA in 10 games with Mobile last season, he entered this season as a top-10 Diamondbacks prospect despite three stints on the disabled list.Lopez is 4-7 with a 5.52 ERA in 14 starts for Mobile this year, with 36 strikeouts and 32 walks. Hes lost four of his last five starts, including his most recent one on June 29.The Arizona Republic first reported Lopezs departure from the Mobile club. PORTLAND, Maine -- A Florida-based real estate investment trust has reached an agreement to sell more than a dozen major ski resorts and other properties from Maine to California.Under the deal, New York hedge fund manager Och-Ziff will assume ownership of 14 properties currently held by CNL Lifestyle Properties, including Sunday River and Sugarloaf in Maine, Crested Butte in Colorado, Brighton in Utah and Sierra-at-Tahoe in California.Missouri-based EPR Properties will retain the rest of CNLs holdings, including Northstar California ski resort and 15 waterparks and amusement parks.CNL will receive about $830 million in cash and stock under the purchase and sale agreement. When the deal closes, it will be the largest ski resort transaction in the history of the sport.Skiers wont see a big impact. Long-term leases will remain in place, so mountain operators will remain unchanged after the properties change hands.CNL and EPR are real estate investment trusts, which are investment vehicles for a variety of properties including hotels, office buildings and malls. They own the property and make money through leases with other companies that manage and operate them.CNL Lifestyle Properties was valued at as much as $3 billion in 2012 with ownership of more than 100 water parks, ski resorts, marinas and senior housingg developments.dddddddddddd. As part of its anticipated exit strategy, CNL has been selling off assets in the real estate investment trust.Under the deal, an Och-Ziff subsidiary will assume ownership of its share through cash and a $244 million loan.Steve Kircher, an executive from Michigan-based Boyne Resorts, which has leases to operate seven of the ski resorts, said its his understanding that Och-Ziff was brought into the transaction to diversify EPRs exposure to ski holdings.Other ski resorts are Cypress Mountain in British Columbia; Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts; Loon Mountain and Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire; Okemo Mountain in Vermont; Mountain High in California; and Summit-at-Snoqualmie and Stevens Pass in Washington state along with Gatlinburg Sky Lift in Tennessee.Kircher said skiers shouldnt be alarmed. Current lease holders will continue to operate the resorts as they have in the past, he said.From a skiers perspective, its akin to a home mortgage being sold between banks, he said.Its not an event from a skiers perspective, he said.---Follow David Sharp on Twitter at https://twitter.com/David-Sharp-AP. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/david-sharp. ' ' '