Angel Valdes | January 4, 2023
The Federales de Chiriquí have incorporated into their squad the major league player, Iván Herrera, who in his first game this season of tests was designated hitter in the victory of the Chiricanos over the Águilas Metropolitanas.
For Herrera it is important to maintain the rhythm for the major league baseball preseason that begins at the end of February “Very happy to be with this team, which helped me a lot last year, I am willing to do what is necessary to help the team and this helps me to keep the rhythm for the arrival of Spring Training, keep me ready for any emergency that happens in the big team”.
Herrera who went up to the Major Leagues in July 2022 with the St. Louis Cardinals and was on several occasions between Triple A and the big team where he had an average of .111 product of 2 hits in 18 at-bats with 1 run RBI, 2 walks and 8 strikeouts in 11 games that saw action.
Regarding the possibility of being with Panama in the World Baseball Classic, Herrera pointed out that it depends on the permission that the Cardinals organization can grant him “I am thinking of playing in the classic, Panama has improved in recent years, I think we have a good team that He can compete and do something that we have not achieved before, about the permit my agent is talking with the organization ”.
For this year 2023 his goals are clear, to establish himself as a regular player in the Cardinals “Keep me ready, anything can happen and maybe they need me to stay in the big leagues in this way,” Herrera concluded.
