Roger Machado Morales, former manager and player for the Cuba and Ciego de Ávila teams, recently arrived in the United States thanks to the parole humanitarian, reported the specialized media Cuban ball.
Machado, one of the most successful directors of baseball on the island in the past decade, won the National Series at the helm of the Ciego de Avila Tigers in the 2012, 2015 and 2016 seasons.
Likewise, he led the Cuba team at the 2015 Pan American Games and in the Can-Am League between 2016 and 2017. In command of Cuba, he won the Rotterdam Interport Tournament in 2009, where the supersonic Aroldis Chapman defected, recalls the summary of Cuban Ball.
As a baseball player in tournaments on the island, he participated in 17 National Series, two Development Leagues, four Super Leagues, one Revolution Cup, five All-Star Games and two Cuban Sports Olympics.
integrated the team Cuba on several occasions, among which stands out the one that reached the runner-up in the First World Baseball Classic.
In 2019, Machado Morales he was fired as manager of Ciego de Áviladue to “changes in management, not attributed solely to sporting results, but as a natural process of renewal in the team strategy”.
In a recent interviewMachado told Julita Osendi in CyberCuba that “I wanted to retire as champion or at least qualify for the postseason, but it was a decision of the authorities of the province and I respected their criteria.”
The ex-manager described the exodus from Cuban baseball as “an open faucet without shoes.”
