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Undoubtedly the 2024-2025 season has been one of the closest and evenly matched in recent years, the current campaign in addition to battled, was also full of surprises, so much so that the current champion of the league and the Caribbean was left out of any option to revalidate its title, but the escualos were not the only favorites that were eliminated, It should be noted that there are many fans nationwide, the capital city of Venezuela has been left without professional baseball and that is a hard blow to the league, since it is considered one of the pillar cities when it comes to holding major events, but the reality is that the teams with real options to the title are: Cardenales de Lara, Bravos de Margarita, Águilas del Zulia, Navegantes del Magallanes and Tigres de Aragua, the latter were in charge of eliminating the Melenudos del Caracas and surely the fans of the Leones will flirt against this set throughout the Round Robin.
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The postseason will begin on December 27th, previously it was scheduled for December 26th, but by request of the teams it was rescheduled for the aforementioned day, the Round Robin does not show a clear favorite to go to the final, due to the fact that the 5 teams look solid, especially with the additions and substitutions that were made yesterday December 24th, each team sought to solve their weaknesses, The Cardenales de Lara, who ranked first, had the benefit of choosing first and took a couple of hitters and the pitcher who could serve as their new closer, a figure they did not have throughout the season and which is considered one of their weaknesses, with the two hitters they will seek to improve on offense, since they ranked last in that area of the game, Rondón and Castro will give solidity to a line up that looks fearsome, from first to ninth bat.
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For their part, the Bravos de Margarita took Jesus Vargas, a starting pitcher that can help them a lot, since he would be integrating a trio of excellent starters, with Felix Doubront and Osmer Morales, they also added Oswaldo Arcia and contact with Herlis Rodriguez, an offense that already looked fearsome, ends up being strengthened with this pair of players, The Águilas del Zulia team is relying 100% on its offense and was reinforced only with pitching, especially in relief, in the last weeks they showed an offense that could produce more than 8 runs per game, that in average, for my taste, I would have taken a player that would give me a little more power and that would make a duo with Andres Chaparro in the center of the lineup of the rapaz team.
Por último, los Tigres de Aragua hicieron los mismos movimientos que los zulianos, tomaron piche y a un campo corto con experiencia, que llega para cubrir el gran espacio que había dejado Keiber Rodríguez, Aragua tiene ofensiva de calidad y en sus últimos compromisos lo demostraron, quedará ver que tal le funciona su pitcheo abridor y de relevo, en mi opinión, me parece que los equipos que se reforzaron de mejor manera, fueron los Cardenales, Bravos y Magallanes, y considero que de este tridente debe salir el par de equipos finalista de la presente zafra de la pelota profesional de Venezuela.
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Unlike the Águilas, the Navegantes del Magallanes went looking for offense, there is no doubt that the Turks have a robust and good quality relief corps, it strikes me that Gabriel Arias with his major league status would have been available to the fourth round pick, I did not think Solarte was available either, but luckily for the Navegantes both came as additions, they will significantly improve their offense and with Solarte they have the plus of defense, now they have a high quality third baseman.Finally, the Tigres de Aragua made the same moves as the Zulianos, they took piche and an experienced shortstop, who arrived to cover the big space left by Keiber Rodriguez, Aragua has a quality offense and in their last games they showed it, In my opinion, it seems to me that the best reinforced teams were the Cardinals, Bravos and Magallanes, and I believe that from this trident should come out the finalist teams of the current season of the Venezuelan professional baseball.
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