MADRID, Spain.- Tony Guerra from Pinar del Río joined the long list of players who have left Cuba in the last year. Guerra, 24, arrived in the United States this weekend after crossing borders from Nicaragua to Mexico.
According to reported sportswriter Francys Romero will reside in the Houston, Texas area and seek new opportunities in baseball.
Cuban society continues to emigrate terribly and with it the baseball players.
Another player who saw action in the last National Series arrived in the United States. He was the regular 3B for Pinar del Río and hit .300 AVG with 18 extra-base hits. https://t.co/z2mgxjMRbT
— Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) November 7, 2022
Tony Guerra competed in Cuba in five National Series with the Vegueros de Pinar del Río. In the last one he was the regular third baseman of his team; he hit .300 with an average of 18 extra-base hits and drove in 34 runs.
In 2021 he had integrated the Cuba Sub-23 Team that competed in the Junior Pan American in Barranquilla, Colombia, where the Cuban team finished in third place.
In September of this year, Guerra, together with Reilandy González and Lázaro Emilio Blanco, also from Pinar del Río, had asked to leave of national baseball.
Last week, Cuban baseball prospects Alejandro Prieto and Anthony Santa Cruz immigrated to the Dominican Republic with the aim of settling there and seeking a professional signing.
Both players were part of the Cuba U-12 Team that competed in the 2019 World Cup; and who managed to get on the podium with the bronze medal.
Of the 18 players who participated in the aforementioned World Cup, eleven are already outside the Island. Among them are the talented Christian SaezLuis Valdes and Yeison Acosta.
At the beginning of this month it transpired that the young pitcher Yadier Batista He had left Cuba, also for the Dominican Republic. In this year’s U-23 National Championship Batista achieved a no-hit, no-run game against Camagüey.
A few days before the renowned Cuban ex-pitcher Angel Pena He left the country with the intention of reaching the United States making the usual Central American migratory journey.
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