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00:00Welcome to this edition of the Infil podcast, the first chapter of this year 2025,
00:25I hope that this year will be very beneficial for each of you,
00:31always thanking you for your support, for being attentive to each of the Infil editions.
00:38Carlos, we are going to start the year by talking about the awards that are to be announced in the next few days.
00:47The best of the 2024-2025 campaign.
00:53I don't know if you think we should start with our votes,
00:58with respect to the award for the return of Luis Salazar.
01:03Correct.
01:05We are going to start with that award, Efraín and friends,
01:10that will always arouse debate for the different prisms with which you can look.
01:22In principle, I would like to hear your candidates, Efraín, your choices.
01:31Well, about what you just said, about the different ways that can exist
01:37when interpreting the candidates for this award,
01:44I want to clarify that for me, and considering that the award is named after Luis Salazar,
01:49someone who throughout his professional career was able to recover,
01:56to return, to overcome different obstacles,
02:02I consider that the candidates for this award are those players
02:09who came to have a relevant status in LaLiga and who, for different reasons, lost it.
02:16Reasons that represented difficulties,
02:20either because after reaching that status they lowered their performance,
02:28either because they were absent due to injuries,
02:33or because they suffered a drop in their production due to physical inconveniences.
02:40And then considering those concepts,
02:44for me, the players that I saw with real qualification from this point of view for the award
02:54were Junior Guerra and Pedro Rodríguez, both launchers.
02:59Junior Guerra was my first option, and second, I signed Pedro Rodríguez,
03:08the reporter for Los Tiburones de la Guaira.
03:11Those were my choices for this award, Carlos.
03:17Correct. The truth is that in this award I was always very clear about who my first two choices would be.
03:24That Junior Guerra, who went through really bad seasons,
03:31who suffered injuries, who deserved operations with prolonged recovery processes,
03:41because he jumped to be left with five punches from the triple crown,
03:48made me very clear that he should be the return of the year,
03:56and that Pedro Rodríguez should escort him for very similar reasons.
04:01Pedro Rodríguez came from very bad campaigns,
04:05and the 2024-2025 was really exceptional.
04:09And since there is room for a third alternative, I cited Wilkin Rodríguez.
04:15Wilkin Rodríguez had a very short campaign in 2023-2024 due to injuries.
04:23In addition, he did not do well in what little he launched.
04:26And in 2024-2025 he had an impressive relationship of five goals against 26 punches.
04:34In 19 innings and two thirds, he was one of the most dominant referees.
04:38Seven saves, four holds, and those were my three selections for the return of the year.
04:43Very good. With respect to the manager of the year,
04:47for me it is always more difficult to select,
04:55because it turns out that for the manager of the year,
04:59one evaluates what one sees on the field of play.
05:06But it is increasingly common to hear sports managers, general managers, managers,
05:15even players, say that the most difficult job of a manager,
05:22the most important, is before and after each game.
05:28In the way the strategy of each match is programmed,
05:34in the way the player is prepared,
05:37in the way the player is informed that he must fulfill a certain role.
05:46It is quite difficult for the analyst to evaluate that work,
05:55which, I repeat, is done before the games and many times also after each match.
06:05But, taking into account that what one sees the most is what is on the field of play,
06:14I want to say that in this opportunity, and remembering the recent past of the Aguilas del Zulia,
06:24consecutively with campaigns, qualifying rounds,
06:29of more losses than wins, last year they qualified for the postseason,
06:35considering that series between Comodines as a postseason,
06:41because they finished in sixth place with a record of 25 and 32,
06:46and this year they culminated in third place with a record of 30 and 26.
06:54I voted for Lip Zonava, and the truth is that it was difficult for me to choose
07:02between Lip Zonava and the winner of the award the previous year, José Moreno.
07:08It is true that last year the Bravos de Margarita finished among the top four,
07:15they had already evolved compared to previous campaigns.
07:21However, Carlos, this year they finish in second place,
07:25with a team, it is true, very similar to that of the previous campaign,
07:30but always remembering that the Bravos de Margarita do not have much depth
07:35in terms of nomination, in terms of players with whom to count,
07:42different from most of the other teams that come to life in the LBBP,
07:50and also remembering that the Bravos de Margarita played their first 13 games
07:56on the road, that is, almost a quarter of the regular season,
08:02almost a quarter of the qualifying round away from home,
08:06and then when they go to Margarita, the first weeks, as you know,
08:12they develop it with meetings always at one in the afternoon,
08:17which is also a difficulty.
08:21In addition, there was that period in which the island suffered
08:26from multiple inconveniences due to the power cuts.
08:33But it seems to me that Navas, Lipso Navas,
08:38because of the previous year of the Aguilas del Zulia,
08:41it is more meritorious.
08:44That is why my vote was Lipso Navas and José Moreno.
08:50Yes, we agree on this.
08:52I voted for Lipso Navas as manager of the year
08:56for reasons very similar to those that Efraín exposes.
09:01The Aguilas came from successive seasons
09:06in which they had a discreet performance.
09:10Lipso Navas arrives with all his meticulousness,
09:14with all his analytical capacity
09:20and to understand and to motivate the players,
09:24and he achieves that very meritorious third place
09:29for a club that one could see
09:34was going to have certain difficulties in its pitching.
09:38And the way Lipso Navas handled it, I think it was very well done.
09:43And that's a good reason to award a manager.
09:48And in second place, yes, also José Moreno
09:52for what Efraín exposed,
09:56as much as Bravos did not come from a bad season,
09:59the point is that Moreno won the manager of the year
10:02in the previous campaign.
10:04It is not a club that abounds in human resources,
10:08it is a team that has to be managed
10:14with a criteria of scarcity.
10:17Some of its most outstanding players
10:21played very little,
10:24as is the case of Edward Olivares,
10:27who was like the star of that set.
10:30And for all that, yes, the choices in my case
10:34were Lipso Navas and José Moreno.
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11:16with more of our votes.
11:20In this case, our explanation and argument
11:23as to why we voted the way we voted.
11:26The next award, Carlos,
11:28has to do with the Novato Award of the Year.
11:34What were your choices?
11:37I was very clear about the first and second choice.
11:43I was absolutely aware
11:46that there was no Novato more outstanding
11:49in the 2024-2025 season than Luis Matos
11:53from the sharks of La Guaira.
11:56A man who was around 30 extra bases,
12:01who also played practically from start to finish.
12:05He had a really brilliant performance
12:07among the best in reached bases.
12:10He was a leader in doubles
12:12among the most outstanding in quadrangles.
12:15Also, a round season for Matos
12:20who undoubtedly deserved that award.
12:24I was also very, very clear
12:29that José Fernández from the Caribbean of El Suate
12:32should occupy the second box.
12:36I think that the numbers that he gathered
12:39support the contribution he made
12:42to a team that was so bad.
12:47He had the motivation and the ability
12:51to stand out in a club that didn't bat.
12:56Because the Caribbean of El Suate
12:58was beyond his pitch.
13:00It was a club that also had a hard time batting.
13:02However, Fernández was able to escape
13:05that tendency to bat.
13:09My great doubt, Efraín,
13:11was in the third team.
13:14Who to put third?
13:16I had two candidates,
13:18both from Cardinals of the Ara.
13:20Jesús Valles, who was a really valuable relegation player
13:24with very good numbers
13:26in a season in which all the pitchers,
13:28almost without exception,
13:30were knocked out.
13:32He worked for more than 30 innings
13:34with very low efficiency.
13:37And Luis Ángel Acuña.
13:40In the end, I ended up
13:43signing Luis Ángel Acuña as third
13:46because of the quality of his numbers,
13:48although he didn't have such extensive participation.
13:51In any case, he took more than 100 turns,
13:53and that seemed to me
13:55a sufficient sample
13:57to take into consideration.
13:59He was a rookie with more than 900 OPS,
14:01with almost 30 runs,
14:03which was key
14:05in his defense of the short field
14:07for Cardinals of the Ara.
14:09And that's why he preferred him
14:11over Jesús Valles.
14:13Very good.
14:15For the reasons that you already
14:19very well explained
14:21regarding Luis Matos and José Fernández,
14:24I included them,
14:26they were my first
14:28and second choice, respectively.
14:31I really liked seeing Fernández,
14:34because in the case of Luis Matos,
14:36I already knew him.
14:38Although I hadn't seen him in the LBB,
14:40he was already a player
14:43with more than one experience campaign
14:45in the major leagues
14:47with the Giants of San Francisco.
14:49He was even a prospect
14:51before he went up to the majors
14:53in that organization.
14:55He was always very well seen.
14:58In the case of José Fernández,
15:00who made his debut
15:02already last season,
15:04but retained the status of a rookie
15:06for this one,
15:08it was Carlos who confirmed
15:12that he was a player
15:14with a very good projection.
15:17Someone who, sooner or later,
15:20must reach the major leagues
15:23and must be consecrated.
15:26He is a player with the ability
15:28to establish himself there.
15:30He is really talented.
15:32At his young age,
15:34what he can do
15:36on a field of play
15:38is,
15:40I think,
15:42impressive.
15:44I think he is a player
15:46to have a successful,
15:49outstanding career
15:51in a world as competitive
15:53as that of the major leagues.
15:55We could say something similar
15:57to someone who was not taken
15:59by us in the vote,
16:01but who has a very good perspective
16:03and that I particularly liked
16:05to see.
16:07Luis Suizbel.
16:09Although he did not have impressive numbers,
16:11I think seeing him play
16:13on the field of play
16:15makes us think
16:17that he is going to be
16:19an important player
16:21or a future player.
16:25My third selection
16:27was Jesús Valles.
16:29Because, although it is true
16:31that Luis Ángel Acuña
16:33had very good numbers,
16:35unfortunately he did not reach
16:37the number of appearances sufficient
16:39to compete
16:41for the prize,
16:43in this case for the leadership
16:45of Bateo.
16:47Regarding Luis Valles,
16:49in a championship
16:51whose effectiveness
16:53was 5.24,
16:55the fact that he left
16:57an average of free races
16:59for each 9 episodes of 1.78
17:01in 30 episodes,
17:0325 appearances,
17:05remember he always
17:07acted as a relay player,
17:09and that he left
17:11a whip of 1.28
17:13when the whip
17:15of the tournament
17:17was 1.58,
17:19made me
17:21select him
17:23as a third
17:25option for
17:27this prize.
17:29But yes, I had
17:31a good time
17:33comparing
17:35Acuña,
17:37overshadowing
17:39that last space
17:41in the ticket
17:43to the novice prize of the year
17:45between Luis Ángel Acuña
17:47and Jesús Valles, but I ended up
17:49defining myself,
17:51as I said before,
17:53for Jesús Valles.
17:55Now let's go, Carlos, with the Pitcher of the Year.
17:57I think the first option
17:59was
18:01simple, right?
18:03Yes,
18:05it was
18:07very obvious
18:09that Junior Guerra
18:11was going to claim
18:13that first place
18:15in the
18:17competition for the Pitcher of the Year.
18:19As we said before,
18:21they only needed five
18:23punches to reach
18:25the triple crown.
18:27A leader in
18:29victories, a leader in
18:31effectiveness, a pitcher
18:33who really
18:35stood out to the point, Efrain,
18:37that I spent a lot of time
18:39evaluating the possibility of including him
18:41in my ticket for the most valuable,
18:43because it was a great
18:45season and it was very important
18:47for the
18:49Magallanes navigators,
18:51and it is obvious that
18:53Junior Guerra
18:55should be the Pitcher of the Year,
18:57as it also seems evident to me that
18:59Jimmy Enders should be cut
19:01for his numbers, right?
19:03In some moments of dominance
19:05it was even better
19:07Junior Guerra was the leader
19:09in WIP of the
19:11season, he was a really
19:13dominant pitcher in a campaign that,
19:15as you said, there was no
19:17pitching, it was the worst
19:19effectiveness in the history of the league
19:21since it was founded
19:23in 1946,
19:25that's why you have to give so much value
19:27to any pitcher who has had a
19:29worthy job, and that of Jimmy
19:31Enders was much more
19:33than that.
19:35Any questions for the third
19:37stage, for the third
19:39choice? But in the end,
19:41Efraín, my friend,
19:43I ended up
19:45voting for Pedro Rodríguez,
19:47because Pedro Rodríguez
19:49was, in my opinion,
19:51one of the most impressive
19:53pitchers of the season,
19:55with his effectiveness of 1.44,
19:5731 innings
19:59and a third of the work,
20:01which is a lot for a short
20:03pitcher, for a man who came
20:05towards the final episodes,
20:0730 appearances
20:09of the 56
20:11games they had, or the 57
20:13that the sharks of
20:15La Guaira had, a
20:17really brilliant WIP
20:19of 0.89,
20:215 saved, 6
20:23holds, for me, of the best
20:25the season had, and that's why
20:27I put Pedro Rodríguez in third place
20:29in the pitcher of the season.
20:31Interesting
20:33that third
20:35place
20:37in the voting.
20:39Look,
20:41in my case,
20:43I put Junior Guerra,
20:45Jimmy Endersby
20:47and José Rodríguez,
20:49the Cuban
20:51from the Caribbean
20:53of Anzuatec, who
20:55ended up among the leaders
20:57of not a few departments.
20:59That was
21:01my third
21:03option.
21:05Always considering,
21:07Carlos, how difficult
21:09it is for a
21:11pitcher
21:13from
21:15Anzuatec and the Caribbean,
21:17due to the characteristics of
21:19that scenario, to have
21:21to throw
21:23there, to keep
21:25good numbers.
21:27However, in his case,
21:29he ended up among the leaders
21:31in departments such as
21:33Affectivity, he was third,
21:35he was
21:37also
21:39third in wins
21:41with 5, and second
21:43in innings thrown, only
21:45behind Junior Guerra
21:47with 60 episodes
21:49thrown. Junior Guerra threw 68
21:51and a third,
21:53but I think
21:55Junior Guerra
21:57supposes one
21:59should win the pitcher's
22:01award of the year, return of the year,
22:03unanimously, one believes,
22:05it is so, but well, the
22:07votes, both here
22:09and in the awards of the
22:11major leagues, not a few
22:13times
22:15give surprises.
22:17I think the pitcher
22:19of the year will win it unanimously.
22:21I'm sure
22:23he's going to win it, or almost sure
22:25he's going to win it unanimously.
22:27Record of 8 and 1,
22:29that of Junior Guerra.
22:31Effectiveness of
22:332.63,
22:35we reiterate, in a championship whose
22:37effectiveness was 5.24
22:39and his whip of 1.33,
22:41the whip was 1.58
22:43in the LBBP.
22:45We pause
22:47to
22:49talk about the last
22:51pitcher, who is considered the most important,
22:53the most valuable player.
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23:25Carlos,
23:27the most valuable player
23:29Efrain,
23:31I think it does not generate
23:33greater controversy,
23:35Renato
23:37Núñez of the Magallanes navigators,
23:39champion
23:41Jhon Ronero, tied
23:43the brand of Buenos Aires
23:45for a season with Alex
23:47Cabrera.
23:49unos números globales unos promedios realmente notables fue el mejor jugador de octubre de
23:56noviembre en fin una campaña brillante en la cual también se destacó como inicialista no existe
24:06creo yo mayor motivo de discordia en quien debe ocupar la primera casilla para el del más valioso
24:18de la campaña 2024 2025 día y en adelante todo es opinable Efraín de quien puede hacer segundo
24:27quien puede hacer tercero en mi caso particular yo inscribí a lorenzo cedro la de los tigres
24:34aragua como segundo porque lorenzo cedro la fue realmente vital para su equipo porque su campaña
24:40fue brillante fue el campeón bate fue el campeón de la estadística de porcentaje de envasados
24:46líder en anotadas líder en hits estuvo quedó de segundo Efraín para la fórmula del productor
24:52del año alguien que fue primer bate remolcó también una gran cantidad de carreras fue un
25:02jugador defensor del jardín central fue primer bate esos son dos atributos que ya de suyo dan
25:10valor agregado estuvo entre los mejores en carreras creadas en fin lorenzo cedro la fue
25:17un pelotero que hubiese podido ser perfectamente más valioso de no ser por la existencia de renato
25:23núñez y para el tercer lugar inscribía a harold castro después de también pensarlo mucho con el
25:29caso de junior guerra pero no podía dejar pasar una temporada de 15 honrones como la de harold
25:36castro entre los mejores en ops del circuito un jugador además polivalente que podía jugar en
25:44segunda que podía ir a los jardines que podía aportar corriendo las almohadillas por eso harold
25:53castro fue mi tercera selección coincido con tus dos primeras elecciones quiero agregar en el caso
26:01de lorenzo cedro la que fue líder en averaje con hombres en posición anotadora con un promedio por
26:08encima de 500 en esa circunstancia hay que ver lo que significa eso sobre todo para alguien que
26:17está ubicado en un lugar en el cual su principal responsabilidad como todo bateador pues todo el
26:26que está inscrito en el ley no tiene como misión elemental en basarse pero por supuesto quienes
26:36están en el medio de ellos se espera que conecten extra bases que remolquen carrera pero en el caso
26:44de lorenzo cedro la pues su averaje con hombres en posición anotadora fue por encima de 500 el
26:52líder en ese departamento lo cual pues habla de manera muy clara de su valía para los tigres de
27:00agua durante la ronda eliminatoria mi tercera opción fue junior guerra porque en un torneo
27:06en el cual el picheo fue tan superior a la ofensiva pues contar con alguien con los números de guerra
27:14alguien que en casi todas sus aperturas lanzó cinco o más episodios lo cual es una especie en
27:23extinción presentaciones así de parte de un lanzador incluso en las grandes ligas esas salidas
27:32a nido disminuyendo pues me hizo verlo como la principal opción para el tercer lugar
27:44tomen muy en cuenta lo hecho por por harold castro pero me llamó más la atención me
27:52pareció más importante más trascendente más fuera de lo común por lo positivo lo hecho por
28:01por junior guerra bueno creo que terminamos coincidimos en la gran mayoría de los de los
28:08premios sobre todo en los dos primeros lugares creo que prácticamente todos lo vimos de la de
28:13la misma manera sí y yo creo que va a ser una tendencia general porque eran son muy cristalinos
28:21esos dos casos esos casos de los dos primeros lugares de casi todos los premios y en el caso
28:28de junior guerra yo te digo yo hay una guerra lo tenía entre mis tres para el más valioso
28:35hasta mediados de diciembre cuando empezó a tener algún decrecimiento en su efectividad en su dominio
28:46de todas maneras la temporada de junior guerra es excepcional y me parece muy justificable que
28:55se premie un desempeño así de un pitcher en una campaña con tan poco picheo entonces la verdad
29:05es que quien haya escogido como es tu caso a junior guerra para tercero en el más valioso
29:13tiene múltiples argumentos para defender su postura fue una gran temporada y la verdad que
29:23me costó bastante no incluirlo en mi terna muchísimas gracias a todos por estar atentos
29:31a estas ediciones del podcast los invitamos a que nos dejen sus opiniones sus pareceres porque
29:40seguramente ustedes también pues tienen claro cómo debe ser el la votación para cada uno de
29:53estos galardones y a nosotros nos interesa saber su opinión así que pueden dejarla allí más abajo
30:00sus comentarios nosotros los leeremos de manera muy atenta y pues si les gustó este capítulo
30:09pueden darle like nosotros nos reencontraremos la próxima semana cuando pues siga la acción
30:19del round robin de la campaña 2024-2025 muchas gracias a todos este episodio del infield podcast
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