Ramón Flores, Jilton Calderón, Álvaro Acevedo, Iván Hernández and Derick Hebbert are the Nicaraguan baseball players who have emigrated to Costa Rica to play in that country’s baseball league, because no LBPN team was interested in acquiring their services.
A source informed LA PRENSA that Nicaraguan baseball players in Costa Rica will earn a competitive salary similar to what they had last season of the Professional League and that there is the possibility that more Pinolero players will reinforce the teams of the Costa Rican baseball league. .
Ramón Flores who was last season with the Tigres de Chinandega, Jilton Calderón with the Bóer, Álvaro Acevedo with the Gigantes de Rivas, Iván Hernández with the Tren del Norte according to the perspective of the five LBPN teams do not have the level to play in this Professional League campaign that looks stronger than previous editions due to the increase in foreign players in each organization.
This season’s Professional League will be dominated by foreign players as the number of them per team increases. Therefore, several managers have expressed the possibility of configuring a complete lineup with imported players, but national players continue to be important elements. of the LBPN groups.
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For the 20th edition of the Professional League, each franchise protected five national players and one or two more with the condition that they have joined the ranks of the U23 National Team that won the bronze medal in the World Cup of the category in China. .
Those who were not protected were available to the five Professional League teams in the 12-round Draft, where only the Chinandega Tigers recruited national players in all phases. Boer and Rivas only chose seven nationals in the Draft. Meanwhile, León at ten, Tren del Norte at nine, their last selection was Carlos Téller and they did not reach an agreement with him.
