MADRID, Spain.- Cuban baseball is one of the scenarios where the migratory crisis that Cuba is going through continues to be reflected. The constant exodus of players leaves the already lackluster National Baseball Series more and more in check. In this sense, the most recent casualties came out this week. They are the Edelvis Pérez pitcher from Sancti Spiritus and the Granma outfielder Ernesto Santi.
The young people, both 18 years old, immigrated to the Dominican Republic and will try to find a professional firm, said the journalist specialized in baseball Francys Romero when sharing the news.
Edelvis Pérez, who recently competed in the National Under-18 Youth Championship with Sancti Spíritus and reaches 90 miles, “could increase the speed (of his pitches) in Quisqueya with new training methods, in addition to perfecting his command and repertoire,” Romero considered.
For his part, Ernesto Santi, “if he manages to demonstrate all his tools before talent evaluators, he will have no problems entering the MLB system.”
Last week transcended that the second baseman of the Villa Clara team, Magdiel Alfredo Gómez, and the Guantanamo pitcher Alexander Valiente, left the National Baseball Series, which is developing its 62nd edition.
In the case of the man from Villa Clara, with six national series on his journey, it is because he will leave Cuba soon, according to confirmed the manager of his team, Ramón Moré. While Alexander Valiente, who has participated in two seasons of the National Series and participated this year in the Caribbean seriesin Venezuela, with the Agricultores team, alleged “personal problems” to request his withdrawal from the sports authorities, whose response “is waiting.”
With this panorama and its incidence in the National Baseball Series, Francys Romero considered that it has become a “uneven, old and without an audience” tournament, similar “to an old Development League compared to world talent.”
