I think Benintendi is the real deal. He's not going to replace Papi by any means, but he helps soften the blow and if Betts and Bradley continue on an incline in their career arcs, I think that lineup is going to end up being really good. The Red Sox have to be the favorites in the East going in, imo.
Pretty cool article written by Nolan Arenado about the WBC
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/no...pr=64466991112
Let's Rid3!!!!
The Americans are choking again.
USA has fallen apart.
Let's Rid3!!!!
I also have to be honest, it's more than a little annoying seeing that many ******* people rooting for the other team in an American baseball park. WTF?
Let's Rid3!!!!
Long read, but very good...
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/sto...dominicans-mlb
Out At Home
As many as 1 in 10 Dominicans are of Haitian descent. So why do we know of virtually no Haitian Dominicans in the major leagues?
by Bruce Schoenfeld
Arroz con pollo waits on the table at Miguel Sano's duplex condo, not far from Target Field. Sano's sister is visiting from the Dominican Republic, and her husband has made the Twins slugger's favorite dish -- mounds of it, enough to feed a baseball team. "Don't worry," Sano tells me. "I eat a lot." The aroma is seductive, an anamnesis of the Caribbean. It fills the top floor of the apartment where Sano spends the major league season, more than 2,000 miles from San Pedro de Macoris, where he was raised. The coastal city is renowned for turning out big league talent, an important source for the country's baseball pipeline -- 82 Dominicans made last year's Opening Day rosters from a population of 10.6 million.
Sano stands apart from the other 81 Dominicans in one significant way: He has publicly identified as an ethnic Haitian.
Baseball is not popular in Haiti itself, but as many as a million ethnic Haitians live in the neighboring Dominican Republic, where the game is ubiquitous. As the chicken waits on the table, Sano and Franklin Johnson Mateo, who serves as Sano's adviser and facilitator, shout out examples of former and current MLB players who likely share their Haitian ancestry. They rattle off seven or eight names. The total number, Sano and Mateo agree, would shock most observers.
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