MADRID, Spain.- The young Cuban baseball player Luis Miguel Rives arrived in the Dominican Republic this week, reported the specialized baseball journalist Francys Romero.
Rives, a native of Sancti Spiritus, in the current National Junior Championship batted for an average of .310 and was in the second position of stolen bases.
As Romero specified in his Blogin 12 games covering center field, he went 99 innings without committing errors.
In the National 15-16 of 2019 he was the leader in runs scored (43) and in hits (61). In said championship he was second among the batters, with .492, a home run, 14 doubles and a triple.
Romero, who considers him one of the 25 best U-18 prospects in Cuba in 2022, noted that “he stood out like few others in the lower categories.”
Rives will now try to become a free agent to be able to sign a contract with a team in the Major Leagues (MLB, for its acronym in English).
This new departure adds to the constant exodus of Cuban baseball prospects. Just last month, the leader of the U-15 national baseball team left Cuba and arrived in the Dominican Republic, Maykol Valdivia Brown; prospect Yorelquis Hernández from Santiago and Danell Figueroa from Matanzas, who projected to be a talent as a catcher.
However, the Cuban government continues to give athletes reasons to emigrate. This week transcended sanction imposed on baseball players who have left the island independently with contracts and have not appeared for the 61st National Baseball Series (SNB), since only the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) is the one who can authorize international contracts for players. ballplayers. For not adhering to the strict control of the regime, these athletes will not be able to play in the current season or the next.
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