Reaching the Major League Baseball is the dream of every player who signs professional. Statistics say that only 5% reach the goal, the rest stay on the road.
Junior Noboa talks about his days in the minor leagues in the United States, after turning professional in 1981 after being signed by the Cleveland Indians. He moved up to MLB three years later, in 1984.
“We went through a lot of work and a lot of hunger because the money from the travel expenses was never enough. I tell you that in the apartment we lived in we used to get together up to 9 ballplayers, many of them with limited resources”, narrates Noboa, current professional baseball commissioner.
Noboa makes his journey in an interview with Héctor J. Cruz, sports editor, in Listín Diario’s Actualidad Deportiva and its section on Listin’s YouTube channel.
He also cites names of his teammates, and highlights that progress has finally been made since yesterday the signing of a collective agreement that protects the minor league player was definitively confirmed.
Noboa, 58 years old, focuses on other issues of baseball academies in the country and independent scouts.
Here you can see the interview: