Young baseball player Luis Enrique González asks for removal from the Cuban Baseball Federation

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The young man from Cienfuegos Luis Enrique Gonzalez, one of the promises of the ball on the island, requested the withdrawal of the Cuban Baseball Federation after being eliminated from the team that traveled to Mexico for the U-23 World Cup. Commissioner Juan Reinaldo Pérez confirmed that the Cienfuegos player himself made the request, as … Read more

Cuban baseball player Loidel Rodríguez: “I did not run away in front of my teammates so as not to disrespect them”

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The Cuban player Loidel Rodriguez, one of the 12 athletes who left the National Baseball Team at the U-23 World Cup in Mexico, confessed that he did not elope in front of his teammates out of respect for them. Rodríguez offered an interview to AmericaTV in which he narrated how jumped from a second floor, … Read more

A Cuban U23 player in Mexico fled the team, returned and now says he suffered ‘pressure’

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The Avilanian Yudiel González, one of the members of the national team of baseball U23 from Cuba to the World Cup recently held in Mexico, assured upon his return to the Island that did not leave the team, as did 12 others of his classmatesdespite being pressured to do so. “I did not even know … Read more

Ninth Cuban player leaves the U-23 team at the World Cup in Mexico

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Bryan chi, the right-handed pitcher of the Cuba U-23 team that participates in the World Cup in Mexico, this Saturday became the ninth player to leave the national team, in what constitutes an unprecedented flight of players in the history of Cuban baseball. “Cuban pitcher Bryan Chi (22) left the Cuban team at the U-23 … Read more

Former player Yoanis Delgado, member of the baseball family Gourriel Delgado, dies of coronavirus

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The player Yoanis Delgado Pedroso, former head of the Sancti Spíritus and member of the legendary baseball family Gourriel Delgado, He died this Thursday night a victim of COVID-19. He had just turned 39 years old. The death of the former player and coach occurred shortly before 8 pm in an intensive therapy room of … Read more

Champions and Maroons

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Seven Cubans were champions in the brightest diamonds in the week that ended. Another six escaped the surveillance and control of the bosses in Havana. And those bosses they whimpered and blamed others for their failure. Welcome to Cuban baseball, once again a national mirror! For second consecutive Year, Randy Arozarena (.273, 19HR, 3 3B, … Read more

Three other Cuban players leave the Cuba U23 team in Mexico

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Three other Cuban players left the Cuba Sub-23 team that is in Ciudad Obregón on Sunday to play the World Cup in this category. With these players, there are already six who have left the national team after his arrival in Mexico on September 21. “Three new retirements in the Cuba team in the U-23 … Read more

José Fernández in memory: The glow and the legend

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Five years have passed since the tragedy, but it is still a blow that I cannot assimilate as a permanent loss. It was a Sunday full of pain and sorrow that mourned the baseball fans, a city and a country. Jose Delfin Fernandez Gomez, called to reign as the best Cuban pitcher in Major League … Read more

INDER appoints a new Cuban national baseball commissioner

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The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) announced this Friday the appointment of Juan Reinaldo Pérez Pardo as the new national baseball commissioner, a position that was vacant after the death of Ernesto Reynoso Piñeiro last April 27, victim of the coronavirus in Cuba. With a degree in Physical Culture and Sports, … Read more

Cuban Major Leaguers fight for major awards this season

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With very little to go until the end of the regular 2021 campaign calendar, Cubans Jose Abreu, Yulieski Gurriel and Raisel Iglesias remain in the fight for the forefront of important individual leadership, while Adolis Garcia and Randy Arozarena they keep the wrestling for the award Rookie of the Year. American League driving leader in … Read more