Why the Marlins pay almost 10 million to Arráez

Coral Gables, Florida (VIP-WIRE). “There are no paths to peace; peace is the way (Mahatma Gandhi)

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Jorge Figueroa N., from Hermosillo, states: “Here we have a municipal president who really likes the baseball. Several sports journalists meet with him frequently because they publish these gatherings on social networks, but they do not rescue anything from the great history of the Fernando M. Ortiz stadium, in which Héctor Espino won seven batting championships, Miguel Sotelo and Baltazar Arredondo pitched without hit or run, there the Pirates and Braves faced each other in the 40s, Casey Stangel and Connie Mack played there, and these journalists do nothing to rescue anything from that history, not even with an allusive plaque.”

Sinhanie Richardson of Miami asks: “How is it possible that Marlins send to Luis Arraez in a trade to the Padres, for three minor league players, ‘for economic reasons’, but they have to pay him close to 10 million dollars of this year’s salary, because in San Diego they will only pay the 740 thousand of the minimum fees? ”.
Amigo Sin: Luis can go to arbitration in 2025 and be a free agent in 2026. It is clear that the Marlins will not be able to pay him the 50 million or more that he will earn per season. That is, they would lose it without receiving anything. In the operation they just carried out, they have three young players left in the minors. It’s something.

Demóstenes J. Prado, from Higuerote, asks: “What is that story about a big leaguer throwing two no-hitters in the same day?”
Demo Friend: It was not “on the same day”, but consecutively. On June 11, 1938, soon to be 86 years ago, Reds left-hander Johnny Vander Meer, 22 years old, threw in Cincinnati, against the Boston Bumblebees, a game without hits, for a score of 3-0 .
Four days later, on the 15th, it was Johnny’s turn to start another game, but at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, first under artificial light in New York. He then dominated the Dodgers without a hit, with a 6-0 finish. The audience, of course, mostly supporters of the locals, rewarded de Vander Meer with an emotional and prolonged ovation.
He has been the only one in the Major Leagues to throw two no-hitters in a row. To overcome it, you must achieve three consecutive no hit no runs.
Since then, Vander Meer has been known as “Johnny Double No-Hit.”

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Of Venezuelan origin, naturalized American. He was born on January 10, 1929. He began working as a reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1947, and later graduated, in 1953, as a journalist from the Márquez Sterling school in Havana, Cuba. Postgraduate degree in historian in 1963, at Saint Francis College, Andale, Minnesota. He has covered all types of sources in journalism, has directed newspapers and magazines in Venezuela and the United States. Since October 1960, he has dedicated himself exclusively to Major League baseball. He was a radio and television announcer of Major League games for 22 years for Latin America, including Mexico. He has produced and broadcast numerous television programs about baseball. His daily column,

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