Manager Eriel Sánchez saved the patriots team speech that he praised so much just a little over a month ago and no longer wants to talk about the historical bleeding that Cuban baseball has just suffered in the U-23 World Cup in Mexico.
That, in fact, is what put requirement to the official newspaper Escambray to grant an interview. In it, Sánchez focuses on talking about the participation of the Cuban troops in Colombia and, without giving names, says that five of the youths who traveled to Mexico will remain. Again, Yosimar Cousín and Yunior Tur will be excluded.
Between the lines, however, he did acknowledge that “due to the number of experienced and established players” that there are, the youth players “do not have the possibility of intervening in the National Series”, so a “U-23 event should be developed. where only those in that category participate in order to have 16 complete teams “.
Just a few days ago, in the column Why are the players leaving? published in GranmaThe group of coaches was held responsible for not strengthening “ethical and moral values.” The manager It seemed like I was walking a tightrope, but the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) kept him in place for the First Junior Pan American Games, which will take place in Colombia next November.
Eriel Sánchez acknowledged that “due to the number of experienced and established players” there are, the youth players “do not have the possibility to intervene in the National Series”
And while Eriel refuses to touch on the subject of defections, Diasmany Palacios connected the fifth home run of the 12 players who defected from the Cuban under-23 baseball team who traveled to Mexico.
Since Tuesday, he has been in the United States and joined Loidel Rodríguez, Uber Mejías, Yeiniel Zayas and Miguel Antonio González in search of an opportunity in the amateur draft next June.
“We still do not know where the opportunity will be, but I will continue playing baseball to see if I can fulfill my dream,” he told Francys Romero, the Cuban pitcher who spent six days at the border crossing before stepping on US soil.
The one born in Sancti Spíritus possesses as qualities “discipline in home and contact with only 22 strikeouts in 59 games played “, highlighted the Miami-based editor. He left the Cuban representative on September 26, taking advantage, Palacios said, that everyone was sleeping to descend by a palm.
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