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The Camagüey pitcher was repeatedly marginalized from the Cuban teams that went out to compete abroad
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Yosimar Cousin pitching for the Camagüey provincial team. (Photo: Granma)
Camagüey pitcher Yosimar Cousin asked to be removed from Cuban baseball, thus joining the long list of young prospects who are leaving the ranks of “revolutionary sport” to seek a better future in professional baseball.
The information was shared by journalist Carlos Alberto Hernández Luján, who on his Facebook profile echoes a text published in “La Comarca de los Toros”, which groups baseball fans in Camagüey.
“An old saying goes that the pitcher goes so much to the source that in the end it breaks and that was precisely what happened between the pitcher from Agramontino Yosimar Cousin”, indicates the note in reference to the continuous marginalization of the Cuban teams that the young man suffered. serpentine.
Eriel Sánchez, director of the U-23 ball team that participated in the World Cup in the category in Mexico, did not include Cousin in the pitching corps, since in his opinion he did not meet the “patriotic” conditions for it. The former receiver from Spiritus apparently did not select the rest of the team well because on Mexican soil he ended up deserting half of the delegation (12 of the 24 players he brought to the event).
The inconveniences for Cousin continued when he did not get a contract in a foreign league, a firm that was to be managed under the protection of the Cuban Institute of Sports and Physical Recreation (INDER).
That was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” for deciding to leave the Cuban Baseball Federation and seek a professional ball contract on his own. In the end, he felt excluded at all times and those actions led to catalyze his decision to abandon the ball in Cuba.
The members of the group “La Comarca de los Toros” fear that with so much output of quality young athletes the National Baseball Series will become “a sixth category banana league.”
“Anyone who loves this beautiful sport and feels it as the heritage of our nation is clear that a deep analysis is needed,” they concluded.
Cousin was part of the list of 34 prospects available to play in the MLB that was prepared by the Cuban authorities in 2018 when it was believed that the agreement between the MLB and the Cuban Baseball Federation was going to bear fruit. In the last national championship the pitcher won seven games, but had a 5.68 ERA in 19 starts.