LAST MINUTE: Pedro Álvarez could receive the release of Sancti Spíritus

By SwingCompleto / contacto@swingcompleto.com

This Monday the INDER of Sancti Spíritus said what many thought would be the last word Regarding the situation of Yayabero pitcher Pedro Álvarez, who would have to go two years without playing baseball to be able to go to another team in the National Series.

It seemed like the worst ending to a movie full of absurdities in which almost everyone agreed that the reason was on the player’s side. Above all, for his right to be where he really felt good along with the wrongdoing on the part of the Spirituan authorities, including some legal rulings.

But a light has appeared at the end of the tunnel regarding his desire to continue pitching in Cuba now with the Industriales uniform, as confirmed by the 25-year-old pitcher himself, and thus a new chapter appears in this story, which many dismissed.

Pedro Álvarez’s public letter, the popular support of thousands of people through social networks and the push within Havana of influential executives and former players has made this a topic of interest for certain “heavyweights” .

Precisely the latter within the framework of the INDER and the National Commission, and especially outside it, carefully analyze this case due to how complex the situation has become, which has received criticism, which creates terrible precedents and contributes to ratify certain realities about the lack of player rights on the island.

“Many good people are moving to help me. My letter reached the hands of important people who want to solve this problem in the best possible way, which is clearly not to be left without playing ball for two years. I want to launch in Cuba, I don’t want to leave, but I don’t want to do it with Sancti Spíritus because of everything I’ve already said. I don’t know if the point was that the place that wants to receive me is Havana and maybe if it weren’t Industriales things would have been different. For the moment I have regained hope, ”Pedrito told a colleague of ours.

Although it is true that there is a regulation within the National Series, it is very ambiguous and needs to be updated for a long time. The same has been applied in some cases and not in others, and sometimes the power that managers or players have at certain levels to achieve the objective in a short time has influenced.

The lack of a Baseball Players Association in Cuba and the existence of a baseball that fluctuates too much between amateurism and some professionalism joins the disparity between the provinces when it comes to serving their players.

Cuban baseball players have a salary contract in the National Series that opens and closes in correspondence with the championship itself. In theory, the athlete remains as a “free agent” at the end of the season after paying the last salary, but this is not the case, as this has to do directly with the Cuban Federation of the discipline in direct agreement with the INDER of each territory.

The point is that there is a bond with the province in which the latter abrogates the right to the player with a maximum time of jurisdiction of two years. If before that the player is released it is mainly because the authorities decide to do so, but not because the law requires them.

When someone wants to change teams in the National Series, the process has three fundamental steps. The letter of approval of the new destination, the withdrawal in writing from the place where the player was and a third in which the transfer to another place is authorized. Honestly, this last step is absurd because the second is enough. There are multiple cases of territorial commissioners or directors of the INDER that have conditioned the dismissal in dependence on the future team, something completely questionable that supports the statement that many times Cuban players are treated as the private property of officials and coaches.

It is worth remembering that in the case of Pedro Álvarez had already been discharged from Sancti Spíritus complying with the second step explained above. But the third was the one that blocked everything, when it was learned that the objective was not to work in the EIDE but to go to the Cuban capital and be part of a group like Industriales.

It is logical that we will have to see how the case evolves during the next few hours, but there is a lot of noise that has been formed with this issue for the disastrous decision of last Monday to be ratified, together with the prominence that a group of people with power at the national level, and some for fairness, and others for avoiding certain consequences, will allow the long-awaited and total freedom of the talented pitcher.

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LAST MINUTE: Pedro Álvarez could receive the release of Sancti Spíritus