MEXICO CITY._ Recruited by the Rakuten Eagles, pitcher Manuel Bañuelos will become the 21st Mexican player in Japanese baseball and the fifth to sign up with that Pacific League club, the most prosperous establishment after Major League Baseball.
The account was released by first baseman José Tolentino (Seibu) from the capital, it has been going for 30 years, and since 2019 to date it has been toured by such distant lands, Joey Meneses (Orix), Christian Villanueva (Nippon Ham), César Vargas (Orix ) and Roberto Osuna (Chiba Lotte).
The left-handed native of Gómez Palacio, Durango, will be the third with tours in Asian circuits, acting in 2021 in the Taiwan League (2-1, 2.94). He joined Narciso Elvira and Karim García, legionnaires in the NPB of the thousand-year-old empire and in South Korea.
At 31 years old and active since 2008, it is likely that the adventure to Japan will now mean the end of his aspirations to consolidate in the Major Leagues, where he compiled 6-9, one save and a 5.64 ERA in 58 games, for the Atlanta Braves. , Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees.
And one more distance from the LMP in which he has been seen intermittently with the Tomateros de Culiacán in the winters 2017-2018 (1-0, 3.60), 2019-2020 (1-1, 5.40) and 2021-2022 (4-3, 2.25).
THREE of three: Jesús Cruz, one of the 26 Mexicans who performed in the Big Show in 2022, lives his stellar moment in Arco, covering the breaks of Jake Sánchez (0-0, 10, 1.32) in the bullpen of Águilas de Mexicali: 1-0, 3, 0.84 and 16 strikeouts in 10 and two-thirds innings.
After taking off in the rotation of the Charros de Jalisco with 0-2 and an ERA of 10.13, the experienced Cuban Yoennis Yera is 4-0 and 1.59 in his past 7 starts, including five of six chapters.
Tampa Bay Rays homer Isaac Paredes (.160, 1, 2) was also a prey to pitching on the coastal circuit in his debut with the Hermosillo Naranjeros.
ON THIS DAY, 1982: In what will turn out to be a pair of botched deals, the Yankees sign free agent outfielder Steve Kemp to a five-year contract and trade outfielder Dave Collins, pitcher Mike Morgan and pitcher Mike Morgan. minor leaguers Fred McGriff to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitcher Dale Murray and minor leaguer Tom Dodd.
On Saturday, December 9, 2006: Joakim Soria achieved the third perfect game in the history of the Mexican Pacific League and the Yaquis of Ciudad Obregón defeated the Naranjeros de Hermosillo 6-0, at the Tomás Oroz Gaytán stadium.
Soria only needed 76 pitches to equal the feats of Vicente Romo (1971), of the Yaquis against Ostioneros de Guaymas, and Jesús Moreno (1989), of the Cañeros of Los Mochis, against the same tribe from the old Cajeme.
**”I see great things in baseball. It’s our game, the American game.”– Walt Whitman.
IN seguidillas.- Another of the young Mexicans who changed organization in the United States, via rule 5, is Manuel Urías from Mochitense, from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Houston Astros. He broke stone four years as a rookie and class A (8-10, 2.14) and is now a solid reliever and occasional starter for the Cañeros (0-0, 1.98)… Jack Reinheimer, short-term infielder in MLB with Diamondbacks and Mets, went down on a rebound in Mexicali. The Toros del Este (.200, 0, 0) released it, in the Dominican League… The Monclova Steelers have not confirmed Matías Carrillo at the helm, who listed all of 2022 for Gerardo Benavides Pape’s checkbook. He was in charge of the quarry at the academy that bears the name of the father of the industrialist—Gerardo Benavides Luna—and replacement manager of the LMB team and starter in the squad of the boys who lost to the Pericos de Puebla in the final series of the Mexican winter.
Recruited by the Rakuten Eagles, pitcher Manuel Bañuelos will become the 21st Mexican player in Japanese baseball and the fifth to sign up with that Pacific League club, the most prosperous establishment after Major League Baseball.
