By Robert Dominguez Yordan Alvarez turned a midseason call-up into a rookie performance for the ages. The Houston Astros’ Cuban-born DH was the unanimous selection for AL Rookie of the Year in 2019 and just the 11th player to top all 30 ballots in what amounted to a no-brainer choice for voters. His other major
Mookie Betts may have been the American League MVP last season and is the face of the Red Sox, but no way does Boston dominate the league and beat the Dodgers in the World Series without J.D. Martinez, LatinoBaseball.com’s 2018 Player of the Year. While Betts is arguably the better all-around player, Martinez was definitely
By Robert Dominguez and Beto Villa "Count 'em, 60! Let's see some other son of a bitch match that!" Babe Ruth had good reason to gloat in 1927 after the Sultan of Swat broke his own single-season home run record of 59 set six years prior. After all, no one hit them harder or farther
Panama turned out to be the accidental host with the most. A last-minute choice to hold the 2019 Caribbean World Series due to safety concerns over original host country Venezuela’s ongoing political strife, Panama became the tournament's unlikely champion. The Toros de Herrera outlasted the five other teams in the series and won the title
By Robert Dominguez A hurting hammy put a sudden halt to Adrian Beltre’s historic march to Cooperstown. The Dominican native, who last year became the 31st player to collect 3,000 hits, on April 5 became baseball’s all-time hits leader among Latin American-born players when he smacked a second-inning double in a game against the Oakland
By Robert Dominguez Looks like Vladimir Guerrero is about to hit it over the fence in his second time up. The free-swinging Dominican slugger, who was at the crest of the wave of Latino baseball stars who swept over the game in the 1990s, is poised to become one of only a handful of players
