Mazatlan – Free agent receiver Yadier Molina, who reinforces the Creoles of Caguas, Is 100 percent focused on the Puerto Rican rep, and for now sees no further than winning the title in the Caribbean Series.
Molina, a receiver with a career worthy of being immortal at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, is a free agent after 17 years in the Major Leagues, and for now doesn’t think about what might happen in the future.
“I’m focused on winning the Caribbean Series, I’m 100 percent with the team, I’m not thinking about anything other than winning this tournament,” Molina told a news conference after the Criolls’ 5-1 defeat to Águiles Cibaeñas , of the Dominican Republic.
“Already after the tournament is over, sit down and think about what happens,” added the nine-time Golden Glove winner as a receiver in the National League with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Molina returned to a Caribbean Series after a 15-year absence, having participated with the Carolina Giants in 2006 in Venezuela. It had activity in six games and beat 188, with three hits in 18 turns to the bat,
“(Back) it feels really nice, to be here, happy to be in Mexico and play with Puerto Rico who has so much talent,” Molina said.
“I really feel very happy to be here in Mazatlán, Mexico, with the beautiful Mexican fanaticism and to play the baseball one has dreamed of,” the nine-time major league player added.
Molina played in Puerto Rico this year, after not doing so since 2012, when he participated in 14 games with Carolina, hitting 2 homers and towing 10 runs.
“I’m very proud to be here, well honored to be here, sharing with this tremendous Caguas Creoles team representing Puerto Rico, it’s really something I’ve always wanted as a child to play in these kinds of events.”
In the match against the Dominican Republic, Molina had to beat Carlos Martínez, the “Tsunami”, of whom he has been a receiver for more than 100 games since 2013 with the Cardinals in the Major Leagues.
“I was previously in the World Classic and it’s really a very rare thing, you spend a lot of time with them, but you have to be professional and try to do the best you can for your team. That’s what you have to do. to do and that was what we did, ”he said.
Against Martinez struck out in the first episode, he gave a roll to the short stops in the fourth and in the eighth he hit a high on the warning strip all over the central garden that marks a distance of 400 feet at the Stadium Teodoro Mariscal.