MÉRIDA, Mexico -. Former Cuban major leaguers Liván Hernández, José Canseco and Rafael Palmeiro are among the 2024 nominees to the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame.
The list of those eligible for the ballot corresponding to Class 2024, eleven of inductees, comes out after evaluating the statistics of more than 150 former Latin players.
“The international induction committee put the extensive list to a vote, to then announce the players eligible for the ballot who will subsequently be inducted as part of the 11th Class of the facility,” said Robinson Paredes, Director of Operations of the Hall of Fame. of Latin Baseball, in statements collected by Free Diary.
The process will continue in the coming weeks when a group of more than fifty sports writers from Cuba, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, vote for those who they consider have the greatest merits, according to the criteria of Hall eligibility.
Among those previously inducted into this prestigious Hall are Liván’s brother, Orlando The Duke Hernández, the Panamanian reliever Mariano Rivera or the Puerto Rican catcher Iván Rodríguez.
Dominicans David Ortiz, Carlos Beltrán, Adrián Beltré, Bobby Abreu and Manny Ramírez were inducted last year.
In addition to the three Cubans, this year’s ballot is then made up of Dominicans: Julio Franco, George Bell, Plácido Polanco, Alfonso Soriano, Aramis Ramírez, Miguel Tejada, José Reyes, Francisco Cordero, Hanley Ramírez, José Rijo, Rafael Furcal , Bartolo Colón and Alex Rodríguez.
Also included are Puerto Ricans: Carlos Baerga, Sandy Alomar Jr., Bobby Bonilla, Rubén Sierra, Benito Santiago, Mike Lowell and Javy López.
Likewise, there are Venezuelans: Félix Hernández, Carlos Zambrano, Johan Santana, Magglio Ordóñez, Víctor Martínez, Francisco Rodríguez and Freddy García.
The Mexican Adrián González, the Nicaraguan Vicente Padilla, the Colombian Orlando Cabrera, the Panamanian Carlos Lee, Andruw Jones (Curaçao) and Sydney Ponson (Aruba) complete the ballot.
Founded in 2010 in Casa de Campo, Dominican Republic, by businessman Roberto Weill and Rafael Ávila, legendary scout and executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Latin Baseball Hall of Fame seeks to recognize the best Latin American exponents in the history of the baseball
Since 2022, it has been based in Punta Cana.
The Cuban nominees
José Canseco was born in Havana and grew up in Miami. He added 462 home runs, drove in 1,407 runs and stole 200 bases in MLB, becoming the first Major League player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases (42-40) in a season.
He won Rookie of the Year in 1986 and Most Valuable Player in 1988.
Rafael Palmeiro, for his part, was also born in Havana and grew up in the United States. He is in the elite group of six hitters with 500 home runs and 3,000 hits.
His name should be in the Hall of Fame, but his statements in the United States Congress and his positive test for steroids remain in the minds of journalists, becoming a difficult barrier to break to reach Cooperstown.
Pitcher Liván Hernández recorded 177 victories in the Major Leagues, leading the Majors three times in innings pitched, twice in starts and two other times in complete games.
In 1997, with the Florida Marlins, he won the Most Valuable Player award in the National League Championship Series and then in the World Series against the Cleveland Indians.
2024-04-29 21:33:45
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