All ready for the start of the top Italian baseball championship and, as they say in these cases, “rich dish, I stick to it“!
The table is laid and among the guests there is also the Codogno Baseball ’67ready for this splendid sporting adventure called A league.
The blue-and-white formation presents itself in the role of Serie A freshman after 21 years and will above all have to think about doing well in the second phase of the championship. Driven by Nice Michelean exemplary sporting history first as a player and then as a coach entirely dedicated to Codogno, the team presents novelties above all on the foreign front who are inevitably hired to be able to compete and play in a championship aimed at remaining in Serie A.
The roster is almost 90% that of the 2022 season with a very high percentage of talents from the youth academy. The new arrivals concern the Venezuelan pitcher Edward Paredes, 24 years old and chosen very young for 7 years in the minors of the Yankees with excellent statistics, then there is the promising catcher of 2004 Luigi Gintili, a Venezuelan with a Spanish passport who grew up in the Academy in Venezuela, and still the interior from Lodi Mattia Caimmi, 22 years old. The shoulder injury deserves a separate discussion for the left-handed national junior pitcher Edoardo Uttini, who will not be available and which will force him to undergo arthroscopic surgery and thus unfortunately miss out on the whole season. To make up for this situation, it was decided to bring the Argentine national pitcher with a Spanish passport Kevin Riello, already seen in Godo in 2018 and then in Germany in the Bundesliga for 2 years.
The technical staff, made up not only of Nani but also of GP Carini, M. Boccardi, M. Marchini, D.Zibra e Leonardo Espositois working at his best in training with the definitive roster which includes all the members of the promotion to Serie A in 2022 with Brian Severino, Francesco Gabbari, Marco Speziali, Tommy Nani, Andrea Bacciocchi, Matteo Rasoira, Luca Speziali, Richard Raimondi, Luke Trees, Andrea Boriotti, Lorenzo Loctelli, Joseph Corio, Carmelo Penaloza and already named Edward Paredes, Kevin Riello, Matthias Caimmi, Luigi Gintili ed Edoardo Uttini (who unfortunately won’t be able to take the field for a while).
The stated objective of the club is naturally a peaceful salvation, which will depend above all on the results we will obtain in the second phase of the championship and on the teams we will face in the post season.
After the presentation of our formation, let’s get to know our opponents from the first match and that is the Padova Baseballback from a 2022 season in which she earned a well-deserved salvation through the poule salvation.
Many purchases among the Paduans, led by a trio of Cuban technicians such as Narcissus Ferrer, Dianny Medina, Jorge Aruca e dal hitting coach Francesco Aluffi (former under 18 national manager).
Padova looks fierce with a Venezuelan star on the mound like Anderson Martinez Torresex of Castelfranco Veneto with remarkable 2022 statistical numbers with 5 games won and 7 lost, PGL 2.60, 114 innings pitched and 152 strike outs obtained. Next to him the new face is the interior Ezequiel “Piciu” Taleviformer Argentine national Parmaclima, and globetrotting pitcher Anthony Arcila, ex Bollate, Milan, Senago, Parma and in 2022 at the Turin Grizzlies. Another arrival to signal the receiver Michele Brunati by the Dragons of Castelfranco Veneto.
With these players we think that the president’s Venetians Marco Flores d’Arcais have all the requisites to battle for a playoff spot.
We therefore expect many of you for this awaited debut in Serie A, confident that we have done all the best to set up a complete and competitive team in every role, made up above all of players who will fight for every single out, and living with them every match “an inning at a time” because wearing the Codogno shirt we know what it means.
We are ready and you?
Good championship then and appointment at Sunday 16th April with the start of race 1 set for 11:00 and that of race 2 at 15:00.
