CITY OF MEXICO._ César Vargas began his participation in the preparation games in Japan on the right foot, in the preseason of the Orix Buffaloes, monarchs of the Pacific League and runners-up in the Nippon Baseball League.
The former major league right-hander pitched three scoreless innings in which he only allowed one hit, prescribed two chocolates and conceded a walk, in a 4-1 loss against the Marinos de Lotte, in Osaka.
In his first “spring training” in the NPB, Vargas is one of the 44 pitchers on the Buffalo roster, including American Jesse Biddle, who in 2021 went 0-0 and 8.44 in the Atlanta Braves bullpen, enough to reach a World Series ring.
The poblano will also make common cause with Masaru Nakamura, the 2021 Pitcher of the Year, as a smash hit for the Mariachis de Guadalajara (8-0, 3.25) in his debut in the Mexican League.
The Yucatan Lions have uncovered five of their seven foreigners, the pitchers, the Dominican Radhamés Liz and the Venezuelan Henderson Álvarez, the Nicaraguan third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert, the Panamanian reliever Enrique Burgos and the Dominican infielder, Ramón Torres.
And for the national cast, they announce a scary “trident”, the naturalized pitchers, the Cuban Yohaner Negrin and the Americans Jake Thompson and Casey Coleman, who are supposed to already know the history of El Pípila.
The long-haired men will open their training camp on March 17, although they already have people sweating their shirts at Kukulcán-Álamo, including catcher Sebastián Valle, who did not play in winter due to an operation on his right shoulder…
ON THIS DAY, in 1932– In Century, Florida, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ed Morris dies at age 32 from stab wounds inflicted in a tavern brawl. The player died in a hospital.
On March 1, on the eve of practice, Morris and a gas station attendant got into an argument at the scene where friends threw him a farewell party and as they got into a fight, the man pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest.
His tragic death came days after Red Sox owner Bob Quinn received an offer from the New York Yankees of nearly $100,000 for Morris’s services.
**”What the owners are doing is calling for a strike… I think it’s fair to say that the owners are on their way to making the same mistakes they did in 1994. I can’t say how far management will go by being stupid again”: Marvin Miller (+), director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, from 1966 to 1982.
IN seguidillas.- Dilemma of the directive of the Charros de Jalisco: to fix 100% the Pan American that they share with the Mariachis or that the champions of the LMP have a new house… The day of the break of the talks between MLB and the players, the pitcher of the Houston Astros, José Hernández Urquidy, was taking the “selfie” with some players from Mazatlán FC, in the soccer stadium… Few foreigners already retired in Mexican baseball can presume to work all year long, like the Dominican Dionys César. In the winter he is the first base coach for the Águilas de Mexicali and in the summer he will be the batting instructor for the Leones.
César Vargas started his participation in the preparation games in Japan on the right foot, in the preseason of the Oryx Buffaloes, monarchs of the Pacific League and runners-up in the Nippon Baseball League.
