The teacher Chelo De Castro (1920-2022) had a humorous and real statement in his sports columns: “Checker than a Paraguayan short stop or a Uruguayan third baseman.” Hey. WHERE. It sounds very strange to talk about a Guaraní or a Charrúa in the world of bats and handles.
It is also not very common to speak of a “Brazilian pitcher”, but it is less exotic because baseball, with the crucial contribution of the Japanese colony that exists there, has gradually managed to filter and develop into a country that mainly referred to football and samba. In fact, there are several players from Brazil who have progressed through the Major Leagues since the first, Yan Gomes, arrived in 2021.
André Rienzo (2013), Paulo Orlando (2015), Luiz Gohara (2017) and Thyago Vieira (2017) are other names who have come to the sport of Babe Ruth from the land of Pelé.
Daniel Missaki, born in Tokyo but raised, naturalized and a baseball player in Brazil, is one of the men helping to get Brazilians out of Don Chelo’s statement. The pitcher wasn’t just another foreigner on the roster of Caimanes, which was just crowned champion of the Colombian Professional Baseball League (LPBC) after defeating Vaqueros de Montería in the last series (4-1).
The 27-year-old right-hander won five games all season, including two in the final. He lost three games, but had an ERA of 0.89. He was a very consistent pitcher. He threw more innings than anyone else, 50.2, and became the strikeout king, 60 in total. He struck out more than he worked innings.
Excellent numbers in his first experience in the hot Creole ball, which ultimately exceeded his expectations.
“It ended up being much more than I expected. “I was pleasantly surprised,” Missaki said in conversation with EL HERALDO on Monday, in the middle of the title celebrations, at the Édgar Rentería stadium.
Source: El heraldo
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