The Caribbean World Series starts on February 2nd, and like last year games will be on MLB Network. Let’s check to see who has already advanced:
NOTE: The CaribWS is weird in that often times the teams that win the League Championships will be bolstered by other players from that country for the CaribWS, so just because a Player is on a team now doesn’t mean they will be during the WS itself.
Venezuela: The Leones Del Caracas defeated Navegantes del Magallanes in game 7 of the Venezuelan championship on Friday to win the series. Pablo Sandoval arrived from the Bay Area to play in the game for Magallanes in order to “defend their honor”, and went 1-4 in the defeat. MLB-related Players on the victorious Caracas Leones, which came back from a 3-2 deficit to win the series, include Gregor Blanco, Jose Lopez, Luis Maza, Gregorio Petit and Juan Gutierrez.
Dominican Republic: The Escogido Leones defeated Cibao Gigantes 5-3 in the deciding game 9 (!) to win the DRWL title. Francisco Liriano struck out 10 in the game Thursday. Other MLB-related players on Escogido include Fernando Martinez (who went 1-4), Carlos Gomez, Wladimir Balentien, Brayan Pena, Nelson Figueroa, Jose Veras and Santiago Castilla. The great Victor Zambrano took the loss for Cibao, which also had Alexi Casilla, Wilson Betemit, Nelson Cruz and Ramon Santiago.
Puerto Rico: Mayaguez won the series 4-1 by beating Caguas 8-6 in 11 innings. Players for Mayaguez include Bernie Castro, Andres Torres, Jesus Feliciano, Randy Ruiz, Twins prospect Danny Valencia and Boston Minor Leaguer Angel Sanchez.
Mexico has yet to be decided, with Game 7 to be played tonight between Hermosillo and Mazatlan. I’ll bring a recap of that tomorrow.
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This win was specially satisfying, beating Magallanes on the final for the first time (this was the third time both teams met in the final round), and in light of bragging by He Who Shall Not Be Named, a known Magallanes fan.
http://urbanshocker.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/2009-2010-dominican-baseball-final-series-serie-final-beisbol-liga-dominicana/
The Round Robin semifinal tourney and regular season recaps are here:
http://urbanshocker.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/2009-2010-dominican-league-baseball-league-recap-playoffs/
After every stage of the season is done, the surviving teams can choose players from the eliminated teams as reinforcements and/or replacements for players whose participation is restricted by their MLB teams.
Between this and MLB-established players reporting late, the teams that play in the Caribbean Series look nothing like they were at the start of the season in October. On occasion, some teams (specially the Dominicans) stop the pretense and send an All-Star team of available players.
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