SUSTITUCIONES Y ADICIONES / SUBSTITUTIONS AND ADDITIONS

Giving continuity to the coverage of the various major league teams for this new season ahead, we will now focus on the movements of some teams and how they replaced some losses during the dead season, giving an immediate solution to these absences with similar players, covering player by player and whose characteristics are very similar, to solve this problem, and thus maintain the level of the previous season, and have a season, the one of 2023, that allows them to fight for the first places, and why not, reach what all teams are preparing for, which is to win the World Series in the month of October.

MISMAS CARAS-NUEVO HOGAR PARTE II / SAME FACES-NEW HOME PART II

What happened in the last World Series with the Houston Astros and the Cuban player Yulieski Gurriel, was something that was among the possibilities that could happen, an injury in one of his legs took him away from the final games of that series and what led the management of the team of the state of Texas to think very well about the renewal of the Antillean player, I say this because of his already advanced age and whose consequence from now on will probably be a low performance and that the player will not accept what they offer him from the high commands, being forced to not commit many risks and look for an immediate solution to maintain the level of last season, and revalidate the championship achieved, replacing the player with another of similar characteristics to give foot to the plan of dominance that lately have had in the American League.

And is that they have gone out in search of replacing that position of first base and have succeeded, with another Cuban player, it is the former first baseman Jose Abreu, who comes from the Chicago White Sox precedent to replace that low, hair to hair, Abreu's characteristics are very similar to those of Gurriel, and fit perfectly in the team led by Dusty Baker who sees in him, power, This will add more in quantity and will put the team at the level of other teams like the New York Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays in terms of offense, and will armor a lineup that already looks very solid and very compact player by player, leaving the team's performance almost intact with respect to 2022 but now with this piece in the roster that we can not have the slightest doubt that it will work optimally.

Another team that saw one of its pieces of years left the ship, was the San Francisco Giants, after a long career with the Bay Area first baseman Brandon Belt left San Francisco to look for a new direction, opening the way for the Giants to immediately look for a replacement in the lineup by bringing another left-handed bat with similar characteristics to Belt as Michael Conforto, this left-handed hitter coming from the New York Mets, arrives to the west of the National League with perogatives to give San Francisco what they lost with the departure of Belt, not at first base but as a left-handed hitter that despite constant injuries, if he stays healthy, is a good piece in the field for any team.

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Yo siempre recuerdo a este pelotero en la Serie Mundial del 2015, cuando en condición de novato, en un partido despacho hasta un par de cuadrangulares, mostrando sus capacidades que en los años subsiguientes luego vimos de el, Conforto podría estar en un resurgir de su carrera, en una de esas etapas en donde lo que necesita un jugador es eso, un cambio de aires, conduciendo al mismo, a ser el que en algún momento fue y que debido a las lesiones dejó de ser, una apuesta por un jugador así por parte de los Gigantes luego del decepcionante intento frustrado de contar con Carlos Correa para este 2023 por unos exámenes médicos, deja dicho de que para el equipo, Conforto esta en buenas condiciones físicas, para ayudarlos en esta nueva temporada.

I always remember this player in the 2015 World Series, when as a rookie in a game, he even hit a couple of home runs, showing his capabilities that in subsequent years we then saw from him, Conforto could be in a resurgence of his career, in one of those stages where what a player needs is that, a change of scenery, A bet on a player like this by the Giants after the disappointing frustrated attempt to have Carlos Correa for this 2023 due to medical examinations, leaves said that for the team, Conforto is in good physical condition to help them in this new season.

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The final destination of the player Brandon Belt is the American League, the Toronto Blue Jays are responsible for bringing him to their ranks after several years in the National League, this particular case is not to fill the casualties of a player who left, This particular case is not to make up for the loss of a player who left, but it is the answer to make up for a shortage of left-handed hitters that the Canadian team has had for some time, and it is perhaps what they need to give chase to the New York Yankees who last season dominated all year and could not catch them, falling short in their attempt, at the point of hitting but not doing much damage.

Analyzing the bulk of the Blue Jays lineup, we find that they have: Bo Bichette, George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr, all of them right-handed hitters, that with the arrival of Belt, they will add a one-handed hitter different from those used to see in these Toronto teams in recent years, and that is that left-handed bat that they just need to give them a very good and real balance, that could add a different dynamic to this team offensively and generate many more runs in other ways, leaving a little aside that way front hitting coming from right-handed hitters to give way to something new thanks to Belt, who also will give defensive rest to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. which would not be a bad thing in this day and age.

CÓMO CUBRIR UNA FALTA.? / HOW TO COVER AN ABSENCE.?