Cuban baseball players continue to make history in the Major Leagues. Athletes Randy Arozarena, Luis Robert Jr. and Adolis García will compete in the Derby of home runs that will take place on July 10 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle. It is the “first time” that three athletes born on the Island will participate in this event, which began in 1985, he reported in his social networks the journalist Francys Romero.
This year, outfielder Randy Arozarena, a naturalized Mexican, and player for the Tampa Bay Rays, will show why he is a key player in the American team. In the first half of the 2023 season, he has hit 16 home runs.
Joining this home run contest is Luis Robert Jr., signed for $50 million by the Chicago White Sox in 2020, who has hit 25 home runs this season. His personal best is surpassed by Shohei Ohtani in the American League.
Initially, Robert Jr. had no interest in participating in the Derbyas he declared to the magazine MLB stating that he “wasn’t a born home run hitter and didn’t know if his game could succeed in the event.”
“Although I do not speak the language, I am proud of my heritage. Cuba is a strong people”
Texas Rangers baseball player Adolis Garcia enthusiastically took part in the Derby of Home Runs. He was seeded fourth and said he was ready for a first-round matchup with none other than his friend Randy Arozarena (seeded fifth).
He Derby The home run game will take place the day before the All-Star Game, where Nolan Arenado will participate. This athlete, the son of Cubans, ruled out participating on behalf of the Island in an international tournament. “My father is from Guantanamo,” he told the magazine. MLB. “Although I don’t speak the language, I am proud of my heritage. Cuba is a strong people.”
Upon learning that the elimination of the repatriation rule for Cubans residing abroad could be the opening to integrate a team within the Island, he ruled out that possibility. “We will have to talk to my parents and my family about it and I would see what they say. But from now on I assume that they would say no until things change there (in Cuba),” he replied to the journalist from Cuban ball Jordan Carmona.
Arenado has won ten gold gloves, six platinum gloves, five silver batters and has been an All-Star eight times.
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