The Cuban Baseball Federation will summon the players who play in the Minor Leagues of the United States to integrate the team that will represent the Island in the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023 in October. According to the specialized media Cuban ballEverything will depend on the permits that are granted to them by the American clubs.
“Perhaps, this is due to the evident lack of quality existing in the National Series and the urgency of first-rate results on the part of the Cuban Federation,” the same outlet stressed. The second week of May, The departure of three players from the Island was confirmed young people looking for an opportunity in the Dominican Republic with one of the US Major League teams.
“The National Series is feeling very closely the fateful result of this migration,” warned the journalist Francys Romero after the departure of these athletes. “The political and economic situation continues to encourage young talents and their families to seek new paths outside the Island,” stressed communicator in FR Baseball!
The decision to summon athletes from the US Minor Leagues, according to the editor of Cuban ball, Ariel Santa Cruz, “accentuates the despair of the governing organization of baseball in Cuba.” There are already more than 150 players who left the island in the last two years.
According to the specialized media Pelota Cubana, everything will depend on the permits granted by the American clubs.
Baseball, declared Cuba’s cultural heritage in 2021, is in crisis. Last year, he did not win any of the nine tournaments he participated in and extended a losing streak that now exceeds six years. The last championship in which Cuba triumphed dates back to August 2016 (Under-15 World Cup).
The call for Cuban athletes will only be for the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile. The team will play the tournament from October 21 to 27 at the Bicentennial Park in Cerrillos.
It will be the second event to which Cuba will take players who play in the US. It did so with active players from the Major Leagues in the last World Baseball Classic, where the so-called Team Asere finished in fourth place.
The news comes after learning that in the National Series the balls are scarce. According to the official publication Hitthe TeamMate company, the same one that was bad with the delivery of uniforms to baseball players months ago, now failed to comply with the distribution of balls for the games, it only made one shipment.
The Cuban tournament is using Batos brand balls, which had been purchased as “reserve.” The same medium warned about many ball expenses per game. “Until May 17, there have been 4,207 lost balls in our stadiums.” In Guantánamo, Villa Clara, Isla de la Juventud, Pinar del Río and Havana, between 17 and 20 are lost per challenge.
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