The 2021 campaign of Major League Baseball (MLB) was historic for Venezuelans, with Miguel Cabrera’s 500 home run and the great individual performance of Salvador Pérez, who led the American League in home runs and RBIs. However, the “Great Tent” also played an important role in Anzoatigue.
Avisail García, a native of Anaco, was undoubtedly the one who best represented the state in the best baseball in the world, as he played 135 games, in which he hit .262, hit 29 home runs, 121 indisputable and drove in 86 runs. These numbers helped his team, the Milwaukee Brewers, achieve first place in the NL Central.
The beer team obtained the qualification to the Postseason, instance in which it fell in a series of four games against the one that in the end would be champion, Atlanta Braves.
From Anaco is also Orlando Arcia, one of the Venezuelans who made the Atlanta roster. Arcia was in 32 regular-season games, hitting a pair of home runs and driving in 13 runs. In addition, he played a World Series duel against the Houston Astros, winning the championship ring.
Talent of the “Tribe”
2021 was also the season that Rafael “Balita” Ortega established himself in MLB by being present in 103 Chicago Cubs games. The one from El Tigre had a batting average of .291, hit 11 homers and drove in 33 lines.
Ortega is one of those who came to the Caribes de Anzoátegui to play the Round Robin of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP). There he will share with Víctor Reyes, Asdrúbal Cabrera and Willians Astudillo. All of them Anzoatiguenses who saw action in the last Major League Baseball season.
Reyes played 76 Detroit Tigers games and with five homers set his best record in MLB. He also gave 54 untouchable and added 22 RBIs, with a .258 batting average.
Astudillo was part of the Minnesota Twis, a team he defended in 72 games. The Barcelonan hit .259 and had seven homers and 21 RBIs. Meanwhile, Cabrera returned to the Venezuelan ball after appearing in 110 games of the 2021 season of the “Big Top”.
The portocruzano militated in two squads. First in the Arizona Diamondbacks, with whom he played 90 games and then he would play 20 more with the Cincinnati Reds. In total, he hit seven hits and drove in 42 runs.
On the mound, were José Álvarez and Mauricio Llovera. The former had 67 starts for the San Francisco Giants, going 5-2 in 64.2 innings pitched, posting a 2.37 ERA. While Llovera had six presentations, a 1-0 record with a 9.45 ERA in 6.2 innings of work.
Puerto La Cruz / Alejandro Jesús Fernández
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