UNA RESPONSABILIDAD DIFERENTE / A DIFFERENT RESPONSIBILITY

Throughout the professional career of each baseball player, there are a series of events that mark the course of his career in this sport, millionaire contracts, injuries, among others, as well as his performance on the field, which is the main factor in determining his life during each season, when a player is a rookie and is given the responsibility for the first time to be the starter of his position, it is quite a challenge, the same thing happens when someone signs a million dollar contract that binds him to a certain team and that makes the pressure to do well increase, and we cannot leave behind the injuries, or the change of position of a player, which is to move him to another location on the field, with the objective of getting the most out of his attributes or simply looking for a place in the starting lineup, below we will study 3 cases very similar to the above and that undoubtedly will mark the course of each one of them in this season of 2023 that is about to begin.

NUEVOS RETOS INDIVIDUALES EN MLB / NEW INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGES IN MLB

The New York Mets catching staff has not had a player of this type since the time in which they had in their lineup the recognized and so far the best offensive catcher that has been seen as Mike Piazza, and for this 2023 the team of the big apple will give the opportunity to see more action to the Venezuelan and number one prospect of all major league baseball Francisco Alvarez, who has been given a whole process of formation and training so that in due course he will be the one to take the reins of the pitching staff of the metropolitan team on a frequent basis.

That time has come and this 2023, everything is served for the Venezuelan catcher to start a path which could be the most important of his career, a very different responsibility to the one he had been playing and that will be from the hand of the greatest pitching today, A job that could be a challenge both for him and for the management, who will have the great task of competing once again against the Braves and Phillies in a season where they will be the big favorites, Alvarez has it all, batting and defense, he is good in both roles and has the power in his bat that perhaps the team was looking for in that position.

A challenge that will also be the Dominican third baseman Rafael Devers, after signing a millionaire contract with the Boston Red Sox, which will bind him to the Red Sox franchise for more than a decade, I think that more than a challenge will be a responsibility, in the past great players have signed such juicy contracts and have been left to owe, The role that Devers will have, will be to be the new figure of the team belonging to the ''East'' division of the young circuit, this responsibility could be a pressure on his game, since he will feel the pressure of having paid a lot of money to see immediate results.

La novena de Boston parece cuidar muy bien su nueva inversión y en dias pasados, ha recibido la visita de una de sus grandes figuras en el pasado como lo es David Ortiz, el retirado jugador, ha llegado al campamento del equipo rojo, para apoyar en cierta forma a Devers, quien además de ser su compatriota, es la figura que ha de ser a resaltar en esta nueva etapa en el equipo, en donde en las últimas temporadas han llegado en el último lugar, y con la presencia del recién firmado y otros jugadores veteranos, buscarán no tocar fondo y sacar adelante a este equipo que no gana una Serie Mundial desde 2013, responsabilidades que se adquieren en este tipo de acuerdos en donde llegas a ser el jugador mejor pagado del equipo y cuyo propósito es impulsar a un conjunto a alcanzar la cima, estas cosas no solo consiguen con grandes sumas de dinero sino con dedicación y mucho esfuerzo en equipo.

The Boston ninth seems to take good care of its new investment and in recent days, has received the visit of one of its great figures in the past as it is David Ortiz, the retired player, has come to the camp of the red team, to support in some way to Devers, who besides being his compatriot, is the figure that has to be to highlight in this new stage in the team, where in recent seasons have come in last place, and with the presence of the newly signed and other veteran players, they will seek to not hit bottom and move forward this team that has not won a World Series since 2013, responsibilities that are acquired in this type of agreements where you become the highest paid player of the team and whose purpose is to promote a set to reach the top, these things are not only achieved with large sums of money if not with dedication and hard work as a team.

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A very different case from the previous two is that of the outstanding Dominican player Fernando Tatis Jr., already leaving all his problems behind with the issue of banned substances, Tatis Jr., begins this 2023 with a new job, right field, infieldr of birth Jr. He sees with his team the San Diego Padres as the best option to play right field, a way to avoid the injuries that plagued him so much in the past and that led him to make that mistake of using substances to attack those physical ailments that led him to incur in that fault, which then ended in a suspension of almost half of the games last season.

What started last season as an experiment has now become a project, Tatis Jr, has been placed in the right field more often and seems to be the most viable and real option to take advantage of his excellent arm, his physical conditions do not help him to continue in the infield and the best decision for the ninth is to move him and establish him in right field, He still has a long way to go but the player's enthusiasm to return to action and be a starter in the team, has made it a reality and in this 2023 we will see a new Fernando, the same player but now in a different position in the field, meaning this, a new opportunity for his young career, to take forward his talent in another way and in another place.

ESTARÁN PREPARADOS.? / WILL BE PREPARED?

The new challenges that come to others to assume a role for which they have been preparing for some time is also something we will see a lot of in this new season, Bobby Witt Jr., Adley Rutschman and Francisco Alvarez himself, are just some of the new crop of players who will be the new ones in charge of running good baseball in this era.

De ser cierto o no, ya es hora para que estos jugadores y sus distintos atributos ayuden a sus respectivos equipos, creo están lo suficientemente preparados para asumir estos roles que los conduzcan al siguiente nivel, que es establecerse como jugadores de todos los dias para asi en algun momento alcanzar junto a sus novenas, lo que todos desean en este juego, un anillo de la Serie Mundial, Francisco Alvarez tiene todo consigo, Rafael Devers posee la experiencia, y Fernando Tatis Jr., está en un conjunto que las tiene todas para realizar eso que todo estan esperando de él.

Whether it is true or not, it is time for these players and their different attributes to help their respective teams, I believe they are sufficiently prepared to assume these roles that will lead them to the next level, which is to establish themselves as everyday players so that at some point they can achieve with their teams, what everyone wants in this game, a World Series ring, Francisco Alvarez has it all, Rafael Devers has the experience, and Fernando Tatis Jr., is in a team that has everything to do what everyone is expecting from him.

HASTA LA PRÓXIMA / SEE YOU NEXT TIME