The players Alfredo Fadraga and Yosvany Ávalos, who last Wednesday had abandoned the Cuban team that disputes the Pan-American Baseball Championship, U-23 categoryheld in Aguascalientes, Mexicowould be back at the hotel where the delegation is concentrated, according to independent media reports.
The unexpected event was reported by the journalist based in South Florida, Francys Romero, through his Twitter account, and confirmed by swing baseball specialist website Complete with “close to the situation” sources.
Sources: Alfredo Fadraga and Yosvani Ávalos returned to the concentration with Cuba in the same hotel in Aguascalientes from which they left 24 hours ago on Wednesday night.
Amazing.
More details at: https://t.co/XdMNBDkFo6
— Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) June 17, 2022
Until then, the whereabouts of the two players, natives of the province of Ciego de Ávila, were unknown, and they would have decided to disassociate themselves from the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) with the aim of later settling in the United States and there getting a contract with one of the Major League Baseball (MLB) organizations.
Without providing further details, and also from his Twitter profile, Romero stated that, according to his sources, Fadraga (23 years old) and Ávalos (22) were being taken to an airport in Mexico for their return to Cuba “after the arrest last night for part of the authorities of that country»
Sources: Cuban baseball players ?? Alfredo Fadraga (23) and Yosvani Ávalos (22) are being taken to an airport in Mexico to be returned to Cuba after being arrested last night by the authorities of that country. Fadraga and Ávalos had escaped on Wednesday night.
— Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) June 17, 2022
Until the time of writing this note, neither the FCB nor the official media on the Island had confirmed any of the information related to this fact.
Previously, he had considered that the players “with the decision to abandon us turn their backs on the commitment assumed with the people that accompanies us in the desire to achieve the best possible result in this fair, and incur in reprehensible acts that we condemn since the decision not to give in to this or other obstacles.
The Swing Complete publication recalls that a similar situation was experienced during the World Championship of the same category, also held in Mexico last year, when a total of 12 players decided not to return to the Island and managed a league contract on their own. professionals, especially in MLB.
Then it was reported that Yuddiel González, also from Avilanian, was among those who had made that decision, but supposedly after having repented, he returned to the Island together with the delegation that participated in that event.