The nightmare for Cuban player Dariel Fernández ended. This Thursday he left the El Valle Immigration Center in Texas (USA), where he was held for “almost a month,” he informed 14ymedio his agent Carlos Pérez. “Bad luck” for the boy, “they kept him in custody without having committed any crime.”
Pérez, director of the representation company RI Total Sports, said that Fernández was detained while crossing the border to request asylum. “Apparently it was because many people passed that day”, but “did not commit any crime” and has no charges.
The plan is for Fernández to join Miami-Dade College, where Loidel Rodriguez and Andy Rodríguez are already, both also on the run from the Cuban baseball team, one in Mexico and the other in the Pre-Olympic in Florida. And from there “to wait for an opportunity in the next draft“.
The agent, originally from Havana, said that the important thing is that the player “is already free and is in a country where he can choose between playing baseball or education” and he does not have to be “hiding anything nor does he have to be at it. let others dispose of their career. “
The pitcher had an outstanding performance last season, being one of the left-handed pitchers with the greatest projection on the Island. “He allowed only 46 indisputable in 226 at-bats, for a discreet average of .232, with an ERA of 2.17,” he posted Play-Off Magazine.
The plan is for Fernández to join Miami-Dade College, where Loidel Rodriguez and Andy Rodríguez are already present, both also on the run from the Cuban baseball team.
Fernandez He is one of the 12 players who escaped during the participation of the Cuban team in the U-23 World Cup that took place in Sonora, Mexico. He took advantage of the fact that everyone was sleeping to leave the hotel where they were staying. This bloodletting of players broke with the idea of “patriotic” team that formed the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) and directed Eriel Sánchez.
Other baseball players who contacted agent Carlos Pérez were Darlin Jiménez and Gustavo Urgellés, who last Tuesday they left the island looking for some opportunity in the Major League Baseball of the United States (MLB).
“The two are in a European country, but very soon they will move to Colombia, ” said Pérez.” There they will establish their training base and we hope that they will show themselves in the best possible way in front of the talent evaluators. Of course, we expect them to sign their contracts there. ”
Jiménez was dismissed from the Granma sports authorities after his refusal to join the national preselection that will participate in Cali (Colombia). He is the same young man who was excluded from the so-called patriotic team that participated in the U-23 World Cup in October.
Meanwhile, Urgellés was part of the current preselection of Industriales. The receiver from Havana was a member of what they consider specialists, one of the best U-15 representatives who participated in the 2015 World Cup.
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