OFFICIAL: Two young Cuban baseball prospects WILL SIGN in the Japanese League

By José Alejandro Rodríguez Zas

For some time now, the Japanese Professional Baseball League (NPB) has become one of the favorite destinations and even of the highest quality that the Cuban Baseball Federation uses to recruit, under its protection, prominent figures from the Cuban baseball.

Year after year, this bond is further strengthened and new players from the Island join the Japanese professional circuit and others consolidate their contracts such as the cases of Alfredo Despaigne, Liván Moinelo, Yurisbel Gracial, Raidel Martínez, Ariel Martínez, among others.

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On the morning of this Friday, October 22, the FCB reported on its official Twitter account that two young prospects from the National Series and members of the Cuba team to the U23 World Cup, the cases of the right-hand pitcher from Pinar del Río Frank Abel Álvarez and the outfielder and first baseman Guillermo García, from Granma, will soon sign contracts with the Chunichi Dragons of the NPB.

In this way, Frank Abel and Guillermo would join the Matanzas receiver Ariel Martínez and the Camagueyan right-hander Yariel Rodríguez, who already confirmed their continuity with the Japanese team. In the case of the Granmense, a note had already been published on our website, in a timely manner, announcing his possible signature and details of his salary.

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The aforementioned FCB publication on Twitter also refers to the fact that the fast right-hander Raidel Martínez is currently evaluating the contract proposal that the Chunichi team is making, while the left-handed closer Liván Moinelo, also from Pinar del Río, continues to be from interest for the SoftBank Falcons franchise of the Japanese professional circuit.