HAVANA TIMES – The Major League Baseball (MLB) season has kicked off, and one of the best players to have graced the big leagues in the last decade, Yuli Gurriel, remains unemployed, albeit hopeful of joining a team.
His latest move, just before the season began on March 27th suggests as much. The infielder from Sancti Spiritus bid farewell to his then-agent Diego Bentz and hired the services and contacts of an old fox, Gene Mato. Gurriel wants actions, not just more promises of a possible return to Major League Baseball.
According to sports reporter Francys Romero, the 39-year-old two-time World Series champion with the Houston Astros continues to train daily for a possible last-minute call-up.
Gurriel leads the list of Latino players with recent MLB experience who remained without a team this season, according to ESPN sports network.
He boasts a solid lifetime batting average of .281 in MLB and can boast of holding a Gold Glove at first base, despite having a discreet regular season in 2023 with the Miami Marlins (.245 average, 23 extra-base hits, and .663 OPS in 329 at-bats).
In his eight years in the Major Leagues, he has also accumulated eight home runs and 39 runs batted in the postseason and was an important factor in the Houston Astros’ conquest of the first two World Series titles (2017 and
