{"id":262854,"date":"2022-12-28T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=262854"},"modified":"2022-12-28T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T01:27:26","slug":"cuban-baseball-players-renew-their-contracts-in-japanese-professional-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/cuban-baseball-players-renew-their-contracts-in-japanese-professional-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban baseball players renew their contracts in Japanese professional baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a Cuban National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) publication, Cuban baseball players Yariel Rodr\u00edguez, Frank Abel \u00c1lvarez, Pedro Pablo Revilla and Guillermo Garc\u00eda renewed their contracts with the Chunichi Dragons in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/tag\/nippon-professional-baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japanese professional baseball<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camag\u00fcey\u2019s right-handed pitcher Yariel Rodr\u00edguez signed a two-year contract, and the rest of the athletes did so for at least one more season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Star Omar Linares also made his new contract official, in this case as coach of the franchise belonging to the so-called central league.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The president of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB), Juan Reinaldo P\u00e9rez Pardo, accompanied the process and spoke with the athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The official highlighted the importance of their contracts and the economic contribution they mean for the Cuban Baseball Federation, which receives a fee from the clubs for the training right, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chunichi Dragons also has in its ranks star pitcher Raidel Mart\u00ednez.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yariel Rodr\u00edguez, Frank Abel \u00c1lvarez, Pedro Pablo Revilla and Guillermo Garc\u00eda ratified their contracts with the Chunichi Dragons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":262856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13926],"tags":[14947,9412],"ppma_author":[33546],"class_list":["post-262854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cuban-baseball","tag-nippon-professional-baseball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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