Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the powerful first baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays, affirmed this Monday that the Leones del Escogido disrespected him when they decided to leave him off the roster the day he was preparing to debut in the last Professional Baseball Tournament in the Dominican Republic.
“Vlady” Jr. established that he has no interest in returning to uniform on the circuit. “Right now I have no interest in playing in the Dominican League.”
They called me to tell me ‘look, he’s not on the roster, don’t come’, I’m on my way to San Francisco, I returned from the Capital. Obviously, he had already been running for an hour and a half,” said the stellar baseball player, who thought that that day he would debut with the scarlet team in the game that the Lions, already disqualified, had scheduled that day with the Cibao Giants at the Julián Javier Stadium. .
“You cannot disrespect a player who every year tries to ask permission to play. I lasted two months asking for permission and the permission came in that time, but they saw it differently and they disrespected me,” he declared during an interview given in New York to the chronicler Martín Zapata for the radio program Grandes en los Deportes, which airs on Escandalo 102.5 FM.
He added that after that he has not had communication with Luis Rojas, the general manager of the scarlet team, and reiterated that it is not among his plans to see action in the local autumn-winter tournament.
“It is a lack of respect. I am leaving my family to go play, ”she said during an interview on the radio program Grandes en los Deportes, which is broadcast on Escándalo 102.5 FM.
El Escogido claimed that there was no point in putting him to play with the disqualified team, as this would be seen as disrespectful to the fans of the red team.
At the time it was conjectured that Guerrero Jr. chose to uniform with the Melenudos to be eligible in the Native Draft that Lidom would do on December 18 for the All Against All and thus have the opportunity to dress for the Tigres del Licey , that after winning the regular series they had the right to select first.
He participated in two seasons with the scarlet team, a team that selected him in the 2017 LIDOM Rookie Draft with the third overall pick. In 36 games and 129 official appearances, he averaged .256 cib with two home runs and 17 RBIs.
El Escogido is the second team to which “Vlady” Jr. puts “the cross and the line”. In April of this year he reiterated that “not even for a billion dollars” he would be part of the New York Yankees.
“They can offer me Yankee Stadium, but no. I haven’t liked them for a long time, nor has my dad either, ”emphasized the son of the immortal Cooperstown Vladimir Guerrero.
