As published by the portal Diario de Cuba, The talented right-handed pitcher Marlon Vega left Cuba and is in Mexicowith the goal of becoming a free agent to sign a contract with a Major League Baseball (MLB) organizationreports in his Blog sports journalist Francys Romero.
Vega will be a guest pitcher in the Meridian Baseball League, which will begin in August in Mexico. He will train and pitch on that circuit and then appear before MLB scouts, according to Romero.
The journalist also reported that Vega will be represented by the ThOr agency, which mediated the contracts of players such as Loidel Chapellí Jr. and Earle Zulueta.
In Romero’s opinion, Vega will sign as soon as he finishes his first appearances and earns free agency. The journalist describes the player as a pitcher of “exceeding quality, resources, speed and repertoire”, whose pitches “possess extreme mobility.” He also remembers that he included Vega in his list of the 25 best prospects of 2020.
A year later, during his debut, in the 60th edition of the National Baseball Series, Marlon Vega won nine games, lost only two and saved three. Such performance earned him to be appointed Rookie of the Year in the Cuban domestic tournament.
In the following campaign, played in 2022, Vega was selected the Most Valuable Player. He was influential in 23 victories for his team, the Huracanes de Mayabeque, they won 12 games and lost only two. That year, the National Baseball Commission chose him and fellow pitcher Raidel Martínez as the best exponents of the discipline.
Marlon Vega was part of the Cuba team that participated in the 2021 U-23 World Championshipin Mexico, and was reduced by half, for the abandonment of 12 players. He was also part of the national team that participated in the next edition of that tournament, held in Taiwan, and was left out of the medal discussion.
Vega also represented Cuba at the Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, in 2021, and at the ALBA Games in 2023. He was also in the reserve team that attended the V World Baseball Classic.
This was one of the best pitchers in his category left in Cuba. His departure is another example that the hiring abroad through state entities, approved in 2013 by the Government, cannot stop the exodus of athletes from the country.
At the end of August 2022, the state sports media Jit announced the hiring of this pitcher in the Japanese Nihonkai Ocean Baseball League, through the Cuban Federation of this sport, subordinate to the Cuban Government.
Less than a year later, the news is that Vega will look for a future in the Major Leagues, without the mediation of the Cuban State. Next to him was the 16-year-old pitcher Daivel Álvarez de la Torre, who played with the Havana team in the last Under-18 National Championship, Romero reported.
FOUNTAIN: diariodecuba.com
