Ozzie Guillen Is Again Interested In Leading Venezuela In World Baseball Classic

The World Baseball Classic (WBC) will not be played in 2021 as planned. Its cancellation is one of the collateral damages of the Coronavirus pandemic and it is likely that the competition of countries will take place in 2023. Whatever the date, Oswaldo Guillén is again interested in leading Venezuela, after hearing that several players have proposed his name.  (Translated)

LVBP Official Site

Baseball Academies In Unusual Solitude

In a normal situation, the swing of the bats, the choruses and slaps of the players, the catches at this stage marked an atmosphere of joy and rejoicing in the baseball academies, since the teams were immersed in the so-called Grapefruit League, which serves as a prelude to the opening of the Dominican Summer League tournament.  (Translated)

Listin Diario

Caribes Made Push To Bring Michael Jordan To LVBP

If there were a sports contest program on current Venezuelan television, such as "El Batazo de la Suerte", for example, and in a round of true / false questions, the question was, was Michael Jordan close to playing in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League ?, surely many would affirm such a refusal. But as amazing as an incredible possibility almost came to fruition, prior to the 1994-1995 Creole ball season.  (Translated)

LVBP Official Site

Players & Fans Put Pressure On La Guaira

Burdened by the long string of 34 seasons without raising a cup that accredits his eighth pennant in almost 62 years of activities in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, players and fans of the Sharks of La Guaira have agreed in recent days, in a sort of campaign, for executive decision makers to take the step required to assemble a winning payroll.  (Translated)

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Coronavirus Outbreak In Venezuela Baseball Academy

The largest outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic in Venezuela directly hit the hotbed of its most popular sport.  (Translated)

Primera Hora

Jordan Hicks Continues To Make Strides On Rehab, Readying For Return When Or If Games Do

While baseball waits and wonders about when games will resume, rehabs continue.

Birdland

Jim Frey Played Three Seasons In The Venezuelan League

Jim Frey, who was the manager of the Kansas City Royals when they won the American League title in 1980 and led the Chicago Cubs, one win away from reaching the World Series in 1984, recently passed away at 88. years.  (Translated)

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Caribes Waiting To Hire Import Players

Caribes was one of the most successful teams hiring importers last season. Despite this, they still do not make plans to repeat any of them, waiting for a clearer picture with a view to the 2020-2021 campaign.  (Translated)

El Emergente

Bobby Abreu Has Interest In Buying Caracas

Bob Abreu, a former star of the Lions and a Venezuelan figure in the Major Leagues, confirmed on Monday that he wants to buy Caracas, giving flight to the rumors that weeks ago emerged in the Creole press, involving his name as a potential interested in the long-haired.  (Translated)

El Emergente

Lara Hasn't Given Up Hope On Rangel Ravelo Returning

The process for Cuban slugger Rangel Ravelo to acquire Venezuelan nationality is under arrest, but Lara does not give up hope that the bigleaguer will one day play as a creole in the LVBP.  (Translated)

El Emergente

17 Venezuelan Cardinals Quarantined At Dominican Academy & Kwang-Hyun Kim Unable To Travel To Korea

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Magallanes, Aragua Make Pitches To OFAC For Foreign Support During Season

Magellan and Aragua again expect a positive response. Four months ago they did poorly. OFAC, the office of the US Treasury department that controls assets abroad, ruled that the LVBP and six of its teams have verifiable independence from Venezuelan government entities and companies. Navegantes and Tigres were the exception, at least in the December ruling.  (Translated)

El Emergente

20 People Tested Positive For CoronavirusAt Baseball Academy In Margarita

Twenty people including athletes, workers and coaches from a baseball academy located in the Gómez municipality, Nueva Esparta state , northeast of the island of Margarita , tested positive for COVID-19.  (Translated)

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Baseball's Comeback Seems Farther Away The More You Think About It

At a time when optimism can be harder to find than toilet paper, John Mozeliak is asking for it, and hoping it rolls.

BenFred

John Mozeliak Talks Shutdown, Kwang-Hyun Kim, Injured Cardinals

On Thursday, the day the Cardinals were to have played their home opener, Busch Stadium wasn’t filled with fans wearing Cardinal red, and the Clydesdales didn’t trot around the warning track to “Here Comes the King.” Instead the team urged fans to stay home and stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
St. Louis Official Site

When baseball spring training camps closed officially about three weeks ago, at least some players on every team stayed around a while to work out, as best they could. But when they strongly were advised to go home, most of them did, either taking their families with them or to see their families.
Post-Dispatch

On what should have been the Cardinals’ home opening day Thursday, John Mozeliak needed only four words to describe what he thinks will happen with the game this season – “We just don’t know.”
STL Sports Page

What Will Happen If The Major Leagues Coincide With The LVBP?

What will happen if the MLB season finally takes place and coincides with the LVBP? What will happen to Caribbean baseball, to winter ball in general, if the proposals to extend the MLB schedule until November or December come true?  (Translated)

El Emergente

Phillies Signed Venezuelan Catcher Yhoswar Garcia

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Olympic Baseball Qualifier Postponed

The World Baseball and Softball Confederation, along with USA Baseball, announced the postponement of the Americas Qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as a preventive measure for players, staff, and health inspectors for the spread of the coronavirus.  (Translated)

Primera Hora

Leandro Cedeno Named To World Cup U23 All-Star Team

The U23 national team of Venezuela reached the Pre-World podium held in Nicaragua, the bronze medal also allows them to secure their ticket to the World tournament of the category that will be held in Mexico at the end of the year.  (Translated)

Deportes Digital

Cardinals Winter League Notebook 2-8-2020: Shane Robinson Singles, Hits A Two Run Homer, & Was Named ABLCS MVP; Mikey Reynolds Singles & Hits A Solo Home Run; Jeremy Hazelbaker & Edgard Montiel Each Hit Solo Home Runs

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