Mayaguez – What for some has been a long year of pandemic that dramatically disrupted the sport, for others -like the stellar receiver Yadier Molina- has actually been a period of sleep.
The veteran Puerto Rican receiver has found in the middle of the emergency for the Covid-19 the way to keep sportingly active from different facets and it has been in this traffic that has tasted the typical champagne of a championship twice in a period of just 38 days, and it looks like it could lengthen the streak.
Molina, who after playing 17 seasons with the Cardinals of Sant Lluís a les Majors, is now a free agent, was first crowned as the Bayamón Cowboys’ representative in the National Basketball Superior (BSN) bubble that went concluded last December 17 and celebrated again on Sunday as a reinforcement of the Caguas Creoles, helped this ninth in the Professional Baseball League Roberto Clemente (Lbprc) to rise with the winter scepter in the series against the Mayagüez Indians.
Now the nine-time Golden Glove aims to further increase the voluminous summary by adding as part of the Puerto Rican team that will play from Sunday in the 2021 Caribbean Series in the city of Mazatlán, Mexico.
“There is a higher percentage that does go, I will make the decision soon,” Molina revealed in a separate with the spokesman during the celebration of the Creoles in the stage Isidoro “Cholo” Garci’a de Mayaguez. “Obviously they (the Creoles) are willing for me to go, it’s a decision that as a player and with the family you have to make. I’m well motivated.”
Oil mill was selected like reinforcement by the equipment of Caguas after its elimination in semifinals with the Athenians of Manatí.
The ninth, led by Ramón Vázquez, scored a four-game sweep on Sunday over the Indians to strike his ticket to the Caribbean Series, which will be held from January 31 to February 6.
For this commitment already the experienced leader thinks big and yearns to keep in the winning formula the stellar receiver Puerto Rico.
“(Yadier Molina) would be a great addition. So far I understand that there is interest, it all depends on several things. We’ll see what happens from here to there. Who does not want to have a future Hall of Fame in the Series of the This year’s Caribbean? ”Vázquez commented.
The former Major League player also said that the final composition of the team could be known between Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
“The league is in charge of making the ‘roster’ by seeing which players are available, who want to go and who don’t. I have several names that I know are available to go, but we will see others. From Tuesday to Wednesday we have to to have an idea of who they are. I hope the players I have in mind meet and take on the new challenge, “Vazquez anticipated on his second trip as a leader to a Caribbean Series.
Another player who said he was analyzing the option of traveling to Mexico is the Most Valuable Player of the final and prospect of the Boston Red Sox, Jarren Durán.
The Creoles have been crowned five times in the Caribbean Series (1954, 1974, 1987, 2017 and 2018). The last four have been on Aztec soil.