After finishing in second place of the newly completed Champions League of America, the Las Tunas They returned from Mexico without two of the players most important payroll.
It’s about versatile Rafael Viñales and of the box player Dennis Peñawho have become important figures for the formation of the current monarchs of the island’s national series, and with relevant performances in the tournament that ended this weekend in the capital Mexican.
We reported that the players Rafael Viñales Álvarez and Denis Peña Rivero did not travel back to Cuba as part of the delegation that represented us in the Baseball Champions League in America, played in the capital of Mexico.
Attitude that turns its back on the commitment assumed.– Inder (@indercuba) April 15, 2025
The news was confirmed by the INDER Through his account in X, where the agency questioned the decision of both players, which valued as “an attitude that turns its back on the committed commitment.”
So much Viñales like Peña completed their participation in the tournamentWhen his team gave in the final with a 1-6 board in front of the Red Devils at the Alfredo Harp Helú stadium.
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Viñales, 32, has experience in 13 national series, in which he has worked as a receiver, initialist and gardener. More for its offensive power that has managed to integrate the selection that has represented Cuba in several international competitions such as the most recent Premier 12 tournament.
Throughout their trajectory in domestic tournaments compile an offensive average .311, with almost 300 extrabases, of them 129 home runs, according to the statistics Officers
For his part, Peña, who has played mostly as the foregoing foreigner, has 8 Cuban series divided into several times, due to his permanence for a while in the Dominican Republic, where he looked for a contract with some of the major league teams (MLB).
In summary, the 29 -year -old set an average.
The departure of players by the most diverse routes has been one of the factors that have most influenced the Cuban baseball results crisis in the main tournaments of different categories.
The authorities have rehearsed variants to contain the bleedingpromoting the possibility that players access professional contracts in foreign leagues, or trying Improve conditions of those who participate in national tournaments. However, none has achieved palpable results.
Peloteros, like the rest of the population, suffer the shortage of products due to the serious and prolonged economic crisis that the country is going through, and some have declined to continue their trajectories and look for other ways to meet their needs and those of their families.
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