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Posted: **Sat Nov 26, 2016 4:35 pm**

Saturday 26 | 2:55 pm

The Cuban Of 25 years Is One Of the Most Important Figures For the Lions -
Hopes To Maintain His Performance Until The End of The Season

VENEZUELAN BASEBALL

Yandy Diaz Still Has Hopes For The Lions

Naranjo Diego Cevallos || @ Diegonaranjo16

Since his arrival with the Leones del Caracas , Yandy Diaz , has become one of the most consistent hitters in the league. In addition the outfielder has enjoyed Venezuelan baseball and is optimistic about the situation his team faces.

"We are not defeated, we have the team to classify for the playoffs. "This league is a strong league," said Diaz, who since debuting in the circuit with the Lions is batting .360 with two homers, 13 RBIs and twelve runs scored. "Before I came here, I had heard about this league and the truth is that I found it to be a great league."

Yandy Diaz is one of the most important figures in the farms of the current champions of the American League Cleveland Indians . However, despite playing the entire year in the minor leagues, he heard about the duel between the Leones del Caracas and the Navigantes del Magallanes.

"Everyone had told me about the rivalry" confessed Diaz. "Really, these games were as I expected, stiff competition, large crowds, and it does good to play well in these games."

With a 14-24 record, the Lions need badly to win games. "We have to go out to win game by game", said Diaz. "We are not defeated yet, we have the team to qualify for the playoffs."

"We have no pressure," said Cuban, who hit safely in his first eleven games with the Leones del Caracas. "We always go out to play cheerful, happy, and with a positive attitude. I think things are well internally. We spent all day throwing joke around and having a good time . Coexistence between all of us is very good. "

Upon his arrival at the capital, Yandy only knew Jesus Aguilar and Yoxian Medina , who are teammates of his on the Indians Cleveland . With the passage of time, the Diaz has already made many friends. "I am very good friends with Danry Vasquez and" Betica "(Javier Betancourt)," said Diaz. "Since I arrived, everyone has made me feel welcome, although I had never played with them before."

One of the requests Cleveland had is that Diaz play several positions, especially the outfield, a place which the Cuban was not used to. "I have greatly improved my path to the fly balls , " he added. "Before I had a little difficulty with the throw to the bases, but it's something I've improved a lot on also".

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:10 am**

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Player	           Pos	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	 AVG
Giovanny Urshela	  3B	 4	1	3	 2	 0	 0	  1	 1	 0	.364
Ronny Rodriguez	   2B	 3	0	1	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 0	.315
Abraham Almonte	   DH	 5	0	3	 0	 0	 0	  1	 0	 1	.286
Michael Choice	    LF	 5	0	0	 0	 0	 0	  0	 1	 2	.236
Alexis Pantoja	    SS	 4	0	0	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 3	.280
Yandy Diaz	        LF	 5	0	1	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 2	.357
Jesus Aguilar	     1B	 0	0	0	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 0	.290
Yhoxian Medina	    3B	 0	0	0	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 0	.304

2B: Urshela 2 (14, Pasquale, Ortega, A)
RBI: Almonte (1); Urshela (25)
2-out RBI: Almonte
SB: Almonte (1, 2nd base off Candelario/Bemboom
CS: Almonte (1, 2nd base by Vasquez, E/Bemboom
Outfield assists: Diaz, Y (Rondon, Jos at 2nd base)

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:15 am**

2 GAMES WASHED OUT IN VENEZUELA
WHEN'S THE LAST TIME YOU'VE SEEN THIS ONE ???

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Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:41 pm**

11/26/16

Giovanny Urshela and Abraham Almonte have big nights

VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE (LVBP)

Yandy Diaz (Leones del Caracas, LF) - 1-5, 2 K - Not a great night at the plate, but enough to extend his hit streak to five games and his on-base streak to 26 between the International League Governor's Cup Playoffs (with Triple-A Columbus) and the LVBP. He also had a good night in the field, including an outfield assist.

Jesus Aguilar (Leones del Caracas, backup 1B) - no plate appearances - Aguilar replaced starting 1B Jesus Guzman in the bottom of the ninth in a road game for the Leones and thus never came to the plate on Saturday night.

Giovanny Urshela (Aguilas del Zulia, 3B) - 3-4, 1 R, 2 2B, 1 RBI, 1 BB - Gio put up some gaudy numbers on Saturday in his best offensive performance in nearly a week and a half. His slash line now stands at .364/.378/.554 with 25 RBI in 30 games.

Nick Pasquale (Bravos de Margarita, SP) - ND, 4 IP, 10 H, 5 R (all earned), 1 BB, 1 K - Pasquale followed up a solid LVBP season debut last Sunday (1 ER on 3 H with 3 K in 3 IP) with this clunker.

DOMINICAN WINTER LEAGUE (LIDOM)

Ronny Rodriguez (Aguilas Cibaenas, starting 2B) - 1-3 - Ronny-Rod makes it two games in a row with a hit after going three games without one.

Abraham Almonte (Toros del Este, DH) - 3-5, 1 RBI, 1 K, 1 SB, 1 CS - Any rust that may have affected his performance in his first two games of the LIDOM season appears to be gone.

PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE (LBPRC)

Alexis Pantoja (Tiburones de Aguadilla, SS) - 0-4, 3 K - Pantoja's six-game hitting streak came to an end on Saturday night with a hat trick of strikeouts.

MEXICAN PACIFIC LEAGUE (LMP)

Michael Choice (Charros de Jalisco, LF) - 0-5, 1 BB (intentional), 2 K - Choice's recent string of one-hit efforts looks good compared to Saturday's game, where he only saw the basepaths due to an intentional walk.

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:58 pm**

Bulls Defeat Stars

In another winter game in the Dominican Republic, The Toros were 3-2 victors over Estrellas.

The Bulls were the first to score in the fifth inning when Abraham Almonte singled to left scoring Manuel Margot against the pitches of Alex Candelario.

In the sixth inning the took the lead scoring twice when Jason Krizan doubled to right scoring Aneury Tavarez and Orlando Calixte both on with a pair of hits.

In the eighth, the Bulls regained the lead with two runs scored by Jorge Mateo and Teoscar Hernandez on a base hit by Eugenio Velez.

For Estrellas, Candelario began on the mound, followed by Marlon Arias, Esmerling Vásquez, Luis Garcia, Jose Fernandez, Lara Confesor, and Jose Molina.

Nick Martinez was the starter for the Bulls followed to the mound by Jayson Aquino, Luis Santos, Dario Alvarez, jarlin Garcia, Alexi Ogando who was credited with the save.

Alvarez (2-1) was the winning pitcher and losing was Garcia (0-2). Ogando got his seventh save.

Standing out on offense for the winners were Abraham Almonte with three singles; Carlos Franco two singles; Manuel Margot, Cristhian Adames, Deibinson Romero, Teoscar Hernandez, Ramon Santiago and Eugenio Velez each with a base hit.

For the Estrellas Orientales, Krizan Calixte and Aneury Tavarez each doubled, Gabriel Guerrero, Junior Lake, jordany valdespin and Anthony Bemboom had base hits.

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:44 pm**

Águilas 5 Bravos 7

Porlamar.-

A home run by American Sean Halton, in his debut, had the decisive blow in the Margarita Braves 7-5 win over the Eagles of Zulia, who, for the first time this season lost three games in one week but still dominates with a record of 24-17.

With the score 5-3 in favor of Zulia, Halton homered to left off of the pitches of Romulo Sanchez to reverse the score Margarita would not surrender the lead.

Anthony Ortega (1-1) in relief got the win in two innings of work. Romulo Sanchez (1-1) lost and Jose Arredondo picked up save number two.

For Zulia, Jose Pirela, drove in two with his first triple. Giovanny Urshela, got two doubles to reach 14 and collect 25 RBIs.

Reynaldo Rodriguez, reached 27 runs batted in for the season, his first single brought home Giovanny Urshela.

Dominican Joan Montero, in his role as opener went 3.1 innings giving up three runs, six hits, one walk and six strikeouts.

For this Sunday, both teams will meet again.

Zulia Notes:

Las Aguilas del Zulia closed out their worst week of the season (1-4) after losing to the Braves of Margarita 7-5;

Both teams meet again on Sunday from 2:00 pm at the Stadium Nueva Esparta.

Lifetime Series Vs. Braves (44-34).

With his two doubles last night Giovanny Urshela reaches 14 and is the leader of the season.

Urshela is batting 40-16 (400) with 8 runs scored and 12 RBIs in his last 10 games.

Giovanny is:
1st in the league with doubles (14);
4th SLG (.553);
5th in BA (.366);
5th with 25 rbi;
7th OPS (.933).
15th OBA (.366);

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 5:06 pm**

Comparisons Giovanny Urshela & Yandy Diaz

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BATTERS    AVE     G    AB  	R  	 H  	2B  	3B  	HR  	RBI  	BB  	IBB  	SO  	SB  	CS  	OBP 	SLG  	OPS 	SF SAC HBP GIDP 
Urshela	.364	 30	121	 17	  44	  14	   0	   3	   25	   3	    0	  12	   1	   0	 .378	.554 	.932	  2	0	1	5
Diaz      .357	 22	 84	 12	  30	   6	   1	   2	   13	  10	    1	  18	   0	   1	 .432	.524 	.955	  0	0	1	3

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BATTERS    AVE     G    AB  	R  	 H  	2B  	3B  	HR  	RBI  	BB  	IBB  	SO  	SB  	CS  	OBP 	SLG  	OPS 	SF SAC HBP GIDP 
Aguilar	.290	 19	 62	 12	  18	   4	   0	   3	    8	  12	    1	  12	   0	   0	 .413	.500 	.913  	0	0	1	4
Almonte	.286	  3	 14	  0	   4	   0	   0	   0	    1	   0	    0	   2	   1	   1	 .286	.286 	.571  	0	0	0	0
GonzalezGP.000	  4	  5	  0	   0   	0	   0	   0       0	   1  	  0	   1	   0	   1	 .167	.000 	.167  	0	0	0	0
Medina	 .304	 19	 23	  4	   7	   0	   1      0	    0	   1	    0	   3	   1	   0	 .360	.391 	.751  	0	1	1	0
Mejia  	.227	  9	 22	  0	   5	   0	   0	   0	    1   	0	    0	   7	   0	   0	 .217	.227    .445	  1	1	0	0
Mendoza	.250 	10	  8	  2	   2	   1	   0	   0	    0	   2	    0   	0	   0	   0	 .400	.375	 .775	  0	0	0	0
Murphy	 .222	 13	 36	  4	   8	   1	   0	   0	    1   	9	    0	  15	   1	   0	 .383	.250	 .633	  1	1	1	0
Pantoja	.280	 10 	25	  3	   7	   2	   1	   0	    2	   0	    0	   6   	0	   0	 .280	.440	 .720	  0	2	0	0
Quiroz	 .154	 10	 26	  3	   4	   0	   0	   0	    2	   2	    0   	6	   0	   0	 .313	.154 	.466  	0	1	4	2
RodriguezN.146	 15	 41	  3	   6	   3	   0	   1	    7	  12	    1  	17	   0   	0	 .364	.293 	.656	  0	0	2	0
RodriguezR.315	 24 	89	 12	  28	   9	   1	   3	   12   	3	    0	  21	   2	   0 	.340	.539 	.880	  1	2	1	2
Valdez	 .500	  4	  2	  0	   1	   0	   0	   0   	 0	   0	    0	   1   	0	   0	 .500	.500	1.000	  0	0	0	0
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PITCHERS  	W  	L  	ERA 	G   GS  CG SHO SV SVO    IP   H  R  ER  HR  HB BB IBB  SO WP GIDP  WHIP  AVG 
Linares	   0	  2	24.00	 4    0   0  0	0	0	3.0   5  8	8   1   0  5  1	 3  1    0  3.33 .357
Pasquale	  0	  0	 7.71	 2	 2	0  0	0	0	7.0  13  6	6	0	0  1  0    4  0    1  2.00 .419
Valladares	0	  0	 3.38	 7	 0	0  0	0	0	2.2	4  4	1	0	0  2  1	 3  1	 0  2.25 .308

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:09 pm**

11/27/16

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Player	           Pos	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG*
Gian Paul Gonzalez	 C	 1	0	0	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 0	.000
Ronny Rodriguez	   2B	 4	1	2	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 0	.323
Giovanny Urshela	  3B	 4	0	2	 1	 0	 0     1	 0	 0	.368
Guillermo Quiroz	   C	 3	0	0	 0	 0	 0	  0	 1	 2	.138
Yandy Diaz	        LF	 5	1	1	 0	 0	 0	  0	 0	 1	.348
Jesus Aguilar	     1B	 4	1	1	 0	 0	 1	  3	 1	 0	.288

2B: Urshela (15, Navas)
HR: Aguilar (4, 4th inning off Caramo, 2 on, 1 out)
TB: Urshela 3
RBI: Urshela (26); Aguilar 3 (11)
IBB: Aguilar (by McCoy)
2-out RBI: Urshela
E: Urshela (1, throw); Aguilar, A (1, fielding).
DP: (Urshela-Herrera, J-Rodriguez, R).

Giovanny Urshela Committed His First Error In His 31st Game; Defensive Stats

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NAME	      G	GS	INN	  TC	PO	 A	E	DP	DPI   %OR	PB	   %F	 %RF
URSHELA     30	30	250.2	78	13	65	0	12	 11  0.000	0	1.000	2.801

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:50 pm**

Lions Roar Loudly Against The Navigators in Valencia 7-4

Caracas Lions roared loudly to defeat the Navegantes del Magallanes 7-4 on home runs by Jesus Aguilar and Henry Rodriguez and timely hitting by Jesus Guzman to take the seventh game against their arch rivals.

Both teams started evenly matched during the game and it was not until the fourth inning when the Lions scored four runs.

Henry Rodriguez drove in the first run with a line drive to left and Yandy Diaz scored. With two men on base, Jesus Aguilar homered and made the score 4-0.

The Navigators scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the inning after filling the bases with no outs.

Magallanes evened the game in the seventh inning. Mario Lisson homered with a runner base to make it a 4-4 game.

The Lions took the lead in the top of the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly and solidified the win with two runs in the top of the ninth. Felix Perez doubled (3) to right field with two outs. Henry Rodriguez followed with a homer (5) on a fly ball to right center field driving in Felix Perez.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 7:36 pm**

11/27/16

VENEZUELAN WINTER LEAGUE

Giovanny Urshela (Aguilas del Zulia, 3B) - 2-4, 1 2B, 1 RBI, 1 E - Urshela made it back-to-back multi-hit games and increased his slash line to .410/.439/.641 in his last 10 games with 11 RBI (full season numbers are .368/.382/.560 with 26 RBI in 31 games).

Yandy Diaz (Leones del Caracas, LF) - 1-5, 1 R, 1 K - Despite grounding into two double plays on Sunday, Diaz extended his hitting and on-base streaks to six and 27 games, respectively.

Jesus Aguilar (Leones del Caracas, 1B) - 1-4, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB (intentional) - Aguilar's three-run homer in the fourth increased the RBI Machine's 2016-17 LVBP total to 11 in 20 games.

Guillermo Quiroz (Tigres de Aragua, starting C) - 0-4, 1 BB, 3 K - Quiroz has seen more playing time in recent weeks (nine of his 30 at-bats have come since Nov. 16), but he continues to struggle at the plate (.133/.297/.133 in 11 games).

DOMINICAN WINTER LEAGUE (LIDOM)

Ronny Rodriguez (Aguilas Cibaenas, 2B) - 2-4, 1 R, Picked Off 1 time - Ronny-Rod extended his hitting streak to three games (with two multi-hit efforts) and is now batting .323.

PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE (LBPRC)

Gian Paul Gonzalez (Gigantes de Carolina, backup C) - 0-1 - Gonzalez, who grounded into an inning-ending double play in his lone at-bat on Sunday, is still looking for his first hit of the season after six Puerto Rican League at-bats.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:48 pm**

2016 Jesus Aguilar 3 Run Homer Vs Arch Rival Magallanes Gives Leones 4-0 Lead Last Night

https://youtu.be/XJprRqGUz7A

2016 Henry Rodriguez 9th Inning Homer Last Night Locked Up A Leones Win Last Night

https://youtu.be/euw4vreOgUI

2015 Caracas 5 homers Vs Magallanes Jesus Aguilar Was First

https://youtu.be/azU2Z8Hy-7A

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 11:36 pm**

Roberto Perez will not play with Mayaguez

The third-year receiver did not receive approval from the management of the Cleveland Indians

The Mayaguez Indians received bad news knowing that the receiver of the Cleveland Indians, the Major League runners-up, Roberto "Bebo" Pérez, will not wear the uniform of the tribe in the 2016-2017 season of the League Professional Baseball Roberto Clemente (LBPRC).

Perez became, along with shortstop Francisco Lindor, one of the key players of the Indians on their way through the postseason in the majors. In just his third season in the Indians, Perez fired three homers and drove in seven runs in the postseason (including five during the World Series against the Chicago Cubs) and took over the starting job at catcher for the Indians.

"I called the agent for Bebo indicating that although it is not certain at 100 percent, the percentage is quite high that Bebo will not play with the Indians this year," said general manager, Frankie Thon, in a press release.

Thon said the explanation he received from the management of the Indians is that they are thinking of changing the catcher.

"Cleveland's team said they were trying to change Yan Gomes then give the position to Perez and they preferred Perez not play to avoid getting hurt. We have not lost hope completely, but the probability of not playing is very high," said Thon.

For his part, Perez agreed that the management of Cleveland told him not to play this season in the Puerto Rican winter league. Perez said, that despite the decision, he remains focused on his training with a view on playing in the World Baseball Classic next March.

"I'm not playing and I'm preparing for the 2017 World Baseball Classic and for spring training," Perez said.

Despite the decision of Cleveland, the Mayaguez Indians will have a trio of quality receivers with the integration on December 2, of Martin "Machete" Maldonado, catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Maldonado batted .202 with eight home runs and 21 RBIs for Milwaukee. Thus the West will have two major league receivers. They already have Carlos Corporán.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 11:49 pm**

Joe

Just wondering who pays these guys in the Venezuelan league. The Venezuelan bolivar is crashing and is virtually worthless.

Venezuela's bolivar currency has depreciated an unprecedented 60 percent in a month against the U.S. dollar on the black market to trade at nearly 3,500 on Monday, according to the widely-tracked web site DolarToday.

That makes the largest-denomination note of 100 bolivars now worth less than 3 U.S. cents in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.

Do our Major League clubs pay for players in the Winter Leagues?

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:10 am**

Seagull,

The winter leagues pay the player salaries.

I recently posted that the Aquadilla Tiburones players (Puerto Rican Winter League) forfeited a ball game because the league failed to pay their salaries for the first half of the month.

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Aguadilla Sharks May Refuse To Play Today
If They Do Not Receive Salaries

The picture in the West is becoming dangerous and it seems that is not because Aguadilla is killing themselves with bullets but because management is not providing money for salaries.

After the organization confirmed that they freed five players this week, [FREED = RELEASED for ineffective performances] and making no moves to prevent the team from weakening, the players of the Sharks were waiting last night for salaries for the first half of November. Last night Aguadilla lost 4-1 to the Carolina Giants. After the setback in Canena Marquez Stadium in Aguadilla, the Sharks sank further in the basement with a 1-12 record.

The information was confirmed this morning by the president of the Professional Players Association of Puerto Rico, Yamil Benitez, who said he is on his way to Mayaguez, where the Sharks play tonight. He will meet with players and management together, hoping that the situation can be solved.

"I will be on my way to Mayagüez to take the action that we have to take there, but now I can not advance anything. We'll get there and if the checks do not, we will take the steps we have to take. Not paying the salaries as mandated by the collective bargaining agreement, is against the agreement of the players from the Professional Baseball League of Puerto Rico, "Benitez said.

"Now after 12 midnight on the 15th, they are lacking a contract."

According to Benitez, management is failing twice because besides not meet the payment on time, the roster is below 30 players.

"All the time the team must have 30 active players, and they have 27".

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Aguadilla Sharks Return To The Field

The league ensured that all will receive their salaries on or before next Tuesday.

Aguadilla will return to the diamond tomorrow, Saturday, to welcome the Carolina Giants in the stadium Luis A. "Canena" Marquez, as agreed today at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the League of Professional Baseball Roberto Clemente.
The conclave, which was represented by the Professional Players Association of Puerto Rico with its president, Yamil Benitez and legal counsel Hector Benitez was on hiatus until next Monday, November 21, at 10:45 am.

That day Israel Roldan will also appear before the administrator of Aguadilla to give explanations about the delay in payments.

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Sharks do not play for nonpayment

"They reached an agreement, we were given some guarantees and we will play," confirmed Yamil Benitez to Primera Hora not wanting to give details of what was discussed at the meeting.

According to a press release sent by the league organization, the Sharks players will receive the money owed, which includes salary and dietas- on or before next Tuesday. the Board of Directors also gave the president of the winter league, Hector Rivera Cruz, "the powers necessary to fulfill the commitment to pay."

The players of Aguadilla decided not to play on Wednesday against the Indians of Mayaguez due to delayed payment of wages and, as a result, the game was forfeited in favor of Mayaguez to leave the franchise record at 1-13 thus far this tournament.

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:15 am**

Better hope these guys have contracts in US dollars

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