The year of Puig
We could call the 2014 Major League Baseball as the "Year of Puig" because the Cuban baseball player is really ripping the ball in the best baseball in the world. But that term has no such pretensions, because if we speak of the "Year of Puig" we refer to the first anniversary of his debut in the majors, which he met just today, June 3. That Monday, and 365 days ago, the millionaire roster of the Los Angeles Dodgers received in their land of Chavez Ravine the San Diego Padres, a duel for attempting to leave the terrible hole that they were in, with only 24 wins and 32 losses!, well distant from the top in the National League´s West Division. The talent of Hanley Ramirez, Adrian Gonzalez and Andre Ethier was not enough to fill the gaps by injury of Matt Kemp, Carl Crawford and Juan Uribe, so they needed someone capable of revolutionizing the whole atmosphere generated in doubtful Dodgers fans . Then Yasiel Puig came, a chunky black man with a perennial broad smile, the same dreamer boy, back in his native Palmira, running shirtless and with broken shoes in the nineties, challenging the survival of a...