In the Mexican Baseball League (LMB), work is already underway so that the Mexican team can play, at least once a year, an exhibition match in which you can count on figures of the Major League Baseball (MLB) as it is Randy Arozarena.
“We have had talks with the Major Leagues so that, in the months between March and December, we can hold exhibition matches in which we will have the figures who were in the World Classic,” explained the president of the LMB, Horacio de la Vega.
Euphoria for Mexican baseball
The Mexican baseball team reached its highest level in the 2023 World Classic, when the euphoria of the people for this sport in the country reached such interest that they even reached sell out several of the jerseys and caps that went on sale, in addition to the fact that two games were played with sold out tickets, these being the ones that were played against the United States in the group stage and the semi-finals against Japan by star Shohei Ohtani.
The impact of this Mexican team, which was led by Major League players such as Randy Arozarena, also influenced the LMB, since in the 2023 season there was a record of 4.7 million fans in the country’s summer ball parks.
This allowed the Mexican team to capitalize on the fact that baseball is a sport that is in fashion with sponsorship, the first of its historywhich brings it closer to becoming an attractive product for brands, as is the case of the national team in soccer.
“We have 600 thousand followers across all the team’s social networks. We want to do things that have not been done before to see consistent progress with the team that has not been done historically in baseball,” added de la Vega.
“The boost they (GWM) give us is not a minor issue, it is an issue of growth for our sport, of being able to continue positioning these great feats of our players”
-Horacio de la Vega, President of the Mexican Baseball League pic.twitter.com/FCuNvLp32h
— Mexican Baseball League (@LigaMexBeis) April 5, 2024
What will the national team’s matches be like with figures from the Major Leagues?
The executive, who participated in the pentathlon events at the 1996 Atlanta and Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, believes that something that will allow the national team to take advantage of this euphoria experienced by local baseball is to hold games, not only when there are competitions. officials, but two or three times in the months of May to August.
It is likely that, in the majority of these meetings, there is participation of LMB players and some of them are carried out in Mexico and others in the United States, a country in which there are 38.5 million people of Mexican originaccording to local government data.
“Imagine that you go to Chicago to play with the Mexican baseball team against Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic, I am sure that we are going to be successful, I am sure that we are going to begin to generate a consistent economy,” de la Vega stated.
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2024-04-07 17:01:25
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