Havana/Germany has put the final nail in the coffin of the Cuba team in the U-15 Baseball World Championship, which takes place in Mexico. Their 3-2 victory left Alexander Urquiola’s troops out of the fight for medals. In seven innings The Germans “have shown the defense and an offense that has almost disappeared,” the journalist noted on his social networks. Francys Romero.
According to the communicator, this group of boys “with quite a few deficiencies, needs to work hard to reform the talent.” Despite everything, he recognized the level of hitters Javier Roque and Braon González and pitcher Yoenys Puerta, who threw 89 miles per hour in the last inning before the Teutons.
The abandonment of athletes is beginning to take its toll. As the journalist remembers Yasel Porto“one of the keys to this defeat is that the highest percentage of the highest-level Cuban players, aged 14 and 15, are in the Dominican Republic, in Major League team academies or in private ones in search of a contract.”
The same day that Cuba failed, the arrival of Mario Oliva to Santo Domingo was confirmed. The Havana native is already in the process of free agency, which allows him to listen to offers from clubs and training academies. The athlete was elected the most valuable player of the U-15 team in 2025.
Last August, Francys Romero warned the specialized media Full Swing that until this year there were “between 45 and 60 departures of players in different categories, many of them between the ages of 13 and 17, who are the players that interest the industry the most. Many of these boys already have pre-agreements.”
This year there have been between 45 and 60 departures of players in different categories, many of them between 13 and 17 years old.
The sports analyst Juan Carlos Guerra Alonso, JuanKconsidered that Germany did not sink Cuba. “That ship had been loaded with ‘water’ before arriving at ‘port’.” In his analysis in Dporto Sports News It exposes the training process of baseball players by ensuring that they have stopped organizing “cups and recruitments in each and every one of the primary schools in the country” that served to choose the most outstanding talents.
Guerra Alonso affirms that the School Sports Initiation Schools (Eide) forgot to “carry out very rigorous limits and training.” From this filter, “a preselection was formed with the so-called players of The Street and the EIDE… All of the above, practically, is not done.”
In a second collaboration, the sports analyst affirms that baseball has stopped playing on the Island, but “I want to make something clear: Not everything is the embargo or ‘blockade’. Not everything starts from the absence of institutional fuel. “Not everything starts from Cuba’s economic situation.”
JuanK stressed that “the problems also arise from inactivity, from poor management of resources acquired with foreign currency from contracts in foreign leagues and from enormous bureaucracy that ends up turning even what should be simple into a problem.”
The analyst says that if in the National Series and the Elite League the referees and scorers do not receive established pay, even less so at the lower levels. “Our official scorers of the Elite League did not have salaries and, according to the information that has reached me, many are even owed payments corresponding to the National Series 64.”
Added to this is that “the balls and implements that are supposedly purchased for the lower categories and sports areas do not always end up taking that path.” According to the analyst, they end up being offered on Facebook.
