GROSSETO. The baseball market is moving for BBC New Energy: Carlo Del Santo is the new manager of the red and whites.
The first purchase, that of., was also formalized in the previous days receiver Niccolò Cinelli from the cousins of the Bsc.
After the farewell of Jairo Ramos at the end of last season and the interim of Filippo Olivelli, the BBC has therefore opted for a manager who knows the environment well, precisely Carlo Del Santo. The new skipper already had led the BBC in 2015, taking over from Paolo Minozzi, with the experience ending after just one year.
«Precisely in 2016 I accepted the call from San Marino: I thought it was the turning point of my career and so it was. But now I’m back at my house. And I want to take with me what I learned in the nine years of San Marino, at the organizational level, at the structural level, at the knowledge and game level. My wish – said Del Santo – was return at all costs. We spoke with the club and I can only thank them publicly for having bet on me.”
«Here we are agree in an instantI only wanted guarantees that the BBC had a project, otherwise I wouldn’t have accepted. With me cthey will be the pitching coach Angel Marquez and Stefano Turci who was like me in 2015 too. Cinelli was the first name I mentioned to the company and I’m happy that it arrived. We have to understand if we will play two games or three games, and only then will we understand how to move.”
Together with the manager Del Santo, this is his staff
Angel Marquez pitching coach, Stefano Turci, Simone Fiorentini, Alessandro Fiorentini and Federico Cipriani coach.
Cinelli, the first arrival
Comes from Bsc 1952 the first reinforcement of the BBC Grosseto New Energy for the 2025 season: the wide receiver Niccolò Cinellicaptain of the team led by Stefano Cappuccini, with whom he played the last five seasons, two in Serie B and three in Serie A.
«I’m happy that Niccolò chose to come and play with us – says the sporting director Filippo Olivelli – He knows well that It’s not the first year that I’ve been courting him to get him back and we finally did it: he is a prospective player, he is in the national team. We are focusing a lot on this reinforcement.”
Cinelli, before starting the adventure con the BSC (147 matches, of which 101 in Serie A with an average of 268, 3hr and 39pbc) he had been hired by the manager Olivelli for Jolly Roger Grosseto in Serie A2 in 2019, he arrives with great enthusiasm, ready to embrace the BBC project.
«I have a good impression and I am happy to have made this choice – are Cinelli’s first words – I have already shared a season with Filippo. I have positive feelings, even if before wearing another red and white jersey I want to thank the BSC and in particular Stefano Cappuccini for what he made me become in this period.”
Cinelli, what is part of the Club Italia LA28started playing in the under 12 Juniors, then played his first under 15 season with Grosseto Baseball. From the second year the students began to grow on the pitch in via Orcagna, reaching the point of wearing the jersey of the national under 23 team.
«Niccolò is an important addition – adds marketing manager Claudio Banchi – because he is a boy from Grosseto, who grew up in the BSC nursery, he knows the environment, he knows the stadiumis an arrival that follows those of Filippo Piccini and Omar Benelli last year, two other boys who moved from the BSC to the BBC. We are setting up a competitive training, starting from local talents. From this perspective, the partnership with the YMCA and the Francisco Cervelli Academy is expanding who will make some young players available for the first team. Implementing the number of local players means guaranteeing a more peaceful future.”
Olivelli said: «We want to be competitive by enhancing the Grossetan nature: we also have Gabriele Chelli, Niccolò Biscontri, Tommaso Franceschelli and Francesco Vaglio, a Maremma by adoption, on the team.”
