Pre-Antennis player Dayán García and experienced pitchers Miguel Lahera and José Ángel García stand out in the Cazadores de Artemisa team for the 61st National Baseball Series, whose actions begin next January 23.

Havana, January 11 (RHC/JIT)-- Pre-Antennis player Dayán García and experienced pitchers Miguel Lahera and José Ángel García stand out in the Cazadores de Artemisa team for the 61st National Baseball Series, whose actions begin next January 23.

Under the orders of the debutant mentor Lázaro Arturo Castro, the squad includes other well-known players such as the catcher Andy Cosme and the pitcher Misael Villa, equally called to show prominence in order to overcome the fifteenth place occupied in the previous edition.

The list with 13 rookies was announced in a session headed by the member of the Political Bureau of the PCC and its first secretary in this territory, Gladys Martínez Verdecia, and by Governor Ricardo Concepción Rodríguez.

The team emerged from a pre-selection to which 60 men were called and ended up composed of four catchers, 12 infielders, nine outfielders and 15 pitchers, after several weeks of work designed from the realities that affected the performance in the previous version, described as unfavorable.

The report presented highlights the priority assigned to a collective thinking that will allow to exploit the characteristics of each competitor and the mix of established and new players present in the team.

The national commissioner, Juan Reinaldo Pérez, described as positive the coherence appreciated between the diagnosis and the conception of the plan applied in view of a competition that will be demanding for the so-called Cazadores. He emphasized that it is essential to make preventive measures a permanent weapon in the fight against covid-19.

He recalled that on Tuesday, with the constitution of Industriales, this process will close and will begin the face-to-face segment of the meetings prior to the technical congress, scheduled for January 13 as a prelude to the 60th anniversary of the national series.