The protagonist who provided the winning hit for the Licey to conquer its long-awaited 23rd crown, still has no job to go to play in the summer.
Mel Rojas Jr is a kind of universal free agent, with almost no action options in Asia and although he has offers to go to Mexico, his main intention is to test the United States market, where he started in 2010, after agreeing for 450,000 dollars with the Pirates.
“I have several offers, from some places, but right now I would like to return to the United States, that is the goal,” said Rojas Jr, after participating as a guest on the program La Hora del Deporte, a space produced by journalist Héctor J. Cruz every Sunday from 11 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon on CDN Deportes.
Also in the Dominican Republic, the outfielder is a world free agent, because although the Licey has a month to be the only one to talk to him since February 15, they have not yet agreed on a contract in the first conversations.
Although he expects this to materialize in the next few days or weeks, otherwise he would test free agency. “What I would like is to stay at the Licey.” The last time he played in the United States was in 2017 with the Gwinnett team of the Braves.
Most historic hit and most attractive crown
Rojas does not think twice and says that the hit he connected against Ronel Banco to award Licey the crown has been the most historic of his career. “Nothing like that hit,” he notes.
And for him that Licey scepter has been the most emotional of all, due to the time the team had not won, the fact that the blue fans needed a crown, also having not worn the club’s shirt for five years.
“We had great harmony and brotherhood as a whole and this was a factor in reaching the crown,” said Rojas Jr, who maintains that even though he wasn’t playing he was watching the pitchers and studying them.
Praise Yermin
Rojas highlighted the great talent of Yermín Mercedes, to whom he advised that if he leaves Instagram a little, he would have a better performance.
He highlighted the type of baseball played in Korea and Japan, from which he adapted. This year he was the only one who could hit Blanco with authority, whose two rounds that he allowed came from Rojas Jr’s bat,
He also expressed that César Valdez was hurt when he pitched the last game of the Caribbean Series against Venezuela.
The outfielder highlighted that Chester Pimentel was one of the most difficult pitchers to hit.
