The list of Los Piratas that will represent the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud in the LX National Baseball Series was announced today at the last meeting of its kind in the country chaired by Ernesto Reynoso Piñera, the national commissioner of discipline and Liván Fuentes Álvarez president of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power.
José Luis Rodríguez Pantoja, technical director of the team for seven consecutive seasons, reported the roster for the current season of the Cuban baseball classic, integrated into the catcher by Yordanis Acebal Pérez, Lázaro Humberto Ponce Oliva, César Vega Revé and Ariel Valera Hernández.
Leonardo Urgellés González, Eliseo Rojas Castellanos, Jhony Hardy González and rookies Osmany Ferguson Maldonado and Alexander Almaral Pérez will patrol the gardens.
The left-handers Wilber Pérez Rodríguez and Yunier Gamboa Correoso make up the pitching staff.
Right-handers Jonathan Carbó Campoalegre, Franky Quintana Gamboa, Miguel Ángel Lastra González, Raúl Guilarte León, Maikel Martínez Díaz, Luis Michel Rodríguez Pérez, Yeiniel Alberto Zayas London, Luis A. Padrino Farradá, Lázaro Guerrero Leguén, Yordanis García Revilla will also defend the box. , Raúl Alejandro González Rosabal, Angel Reynaldo Herrera Escalona and rookie Kendry Hernández Brown.
The local squad is completed by the outfield players, veteran Luis Felipe Rivera Despaigne, Yasmani Viera García, Aquimo Jiménez Oliva, Luis Miguel Arias, Jander Santamaría Casero, Eddy Rodríguez Lugo, Laydel Águila Otamendi, rookie Jeffrey Pérez Díaz and Dainier Gálvez Guerra, team captain.
Accompanying Rodríguez Pantoja in the technical team are assistants Alexander Ramos Rabell and Maikel Mc Coy Gutiérrez, as coaches Dioel Reyes Viquillón, Jorge Smith Díaz and Yoanys Pérez García and the physical trainer is Julio Miguel Valdés Guevara.
Enrique Gómez Valdés, baseball commissioner in the territory, emphasized that in the preparatory phase they worked to improve the technical and mechanical capacity of the muscles to obtain greater performance on the field and develop skills in group dynamics, with the purpose of being among the top eight in the league.
Under the isolation and biosecurity measures due to COVID-19, the athletes had an intense preparation in six weeks, there is a good atmosphere in the team now with a remarkable injection of young people and an average age of 26 years, he said.
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