SE ABREN LAS PUERTAS A UNA NUEVA TEMPORADA / DOORS OPEN FOR A NEW SEASON

After the culmination of the traditional Caribbean Series that is played annually every February, and in a year of World Classic, a new season in Major League Baseball began with spring training, earlier than usual due to the classic, the different teams opened their doors to the camps, to receive their players and start their engines, for what will be a very busy and exciting months of March and April, which undoubtedly will give us a season full of emotions towards a new monarch in MLB, The different teams opened their camps to welcome their players and start their engines for what will be a very busy and exciting March and April, which will undoubtedly give us a season full of emotions on the road to a new MLB champion, or why not, to see a Houston Astros team repeat a World Series championship.

UN NUEVO COMIENZO PRIMAVERAL / A NEW SPRING START

The wait came to an end last Friday, February 24, when the different teams in full preparation phase, began what all lovers of this sport expect every year, the main training camps in Florida, Arizona and Tampa came to life with the realization of the first meetings, giving us to know from now on, what the different teams bring for this season of 2023 in MLB, calibrating everything with the different pieces added in the dead season, to face once again, 6 months of hard battle to achieve the goals set by each organization.

One of the focuses of attention this spring is the camp of the New York Mets, expectations are very high, after all the moves during the dead season, the big apple see how in their location, are each of those acquisitions that came to the team from free agency, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga are the main novelties of this team and from now on, they create an illusion in the orange and blue fans, forming one of the best rotations in the National League that together with what they already have from the mound, they predict that they will be the champions in the ''East'' division of the National League.

As for the position players, the only relevant novelty for this spring is the inclusion of veteran American outfielder Tommy Pham, their bet seems to be more towards pitching, since they keep practically all their infield and outfield players with respect to last season, letting us know that they will continue with the same style of being constantly on the bases to achieve victories, relying on the versatility of the bats of Francisco Lindor and Eduardo Escobar, to add the strength of Pete Alonso and Starling Marte, not leaving out the always dynamic Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimmo who are already getting in shape to always be on the bases to score the necessary runs and thus support the New York offense.

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En el campo primaveral de los Cardenales de San Louis ya nada será igual, por primera vez en casi 20 temporadas, el conjunto perteneciente a la división del ‘‘Centro’’ de la Liga Nacional, comenzará estos entrenamientos sin su principal figura desde la receptoría como lo fue Yadier Molina, acudiendo rápidamente a su ausencia luego del retiro inminente del boricua, los pájaros rojos se movieron rápidamente y trajeron al equipo al Venezolano Wilson Contreras, quien tendrá toda la responsabilidad de suplir al careta puertoriqueño en esta nueva etapa de la novena, quienes también tendrán una temporada muy importante, debido a que será la campaña de despedida de otro grande de la organización como lo es Adam Wainwright.

In the spring camp of the St. Louis Cardinals nothing will be the same, for the first time in almost 20 seasons, the team belonging to the ''Center'' division of the National League, will begin these workouts without its main figure from the catcher as it was Yadier Molina, going quickly to his absence after the imminent retirement of the Puerto Rican, The Redbirds moved quickly and brought to the team the Venezuelan Wilson Contreras, who will have all the responsibility of replacing the Puerto Rican catcher in this new stage of the ninth, who will also have a very important season, because it will be the farewell campaign of another great of the organization such as Adam Wainwright.

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Nothing will be the same for Adam Wainwright, who will see not only that it will be his last passage in his professional baseball career that began 20 years ago, but it will be the first without his faithful friend Yadier behind the plate, who accompanied him during much of his career, all that journey with the St. Louis team and it will be interesting to see how it will be his performance, It will be interesting to see how he will perform, because it was a long time of communication and affectionate relationship between the two, and as a famous TV sports announcer would say, he even knew his thoughts, a great challenge for both, for the team and for the player on his way to conquer again the central division of the old circuit.

Camelback Ranch-Glendale, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is where the season starts every year for them, from this place for weeks now, things have been moving for the team led by Dave Roberts who is going into his 8th season as the pilot of the blue team, the Dodgers start again as favorites and will want to erase the disappointing performance in the last post-season where they were left out in the first round after finishing the regular season with a magnificent record of over 100 wins, for this they have been reinforced in a great way and have brought to their ranks power and versatility in the hands of J. D. Martinez and the versatility of the Dodgers. D Martinez and Venezuelan Miguel Rojas who will cover shortstop and provide defensive solvency in the box.

LO QUE TODOS ESTABAN ESPERANDO / WHAT EVERYONE WAS WAITING FOR