The New York Yankees lost a piece that ended up gaining prominence during the 2022 Major League season and that generated some intrigue at the time of not being renewed for the 2023 campaign of the best baseball in the world.
This is the Venezuelan utility Marwin González, who accepted an offer from the Orix Buffaloes of the Japan Professional Baseball League (NPB) and will join the long list of Venezuelans who make a living in Asian baseball after not being able to find a position in the MLB.
In this way, González retires from the Majors after 11 years in which he defended various uniforms as one of the most complete pieces of the rosters in which he was; He now joins the current Japanese baseball champions to seek to maintain his high level of play.
The information was released by the official MLB.com portal, where they confirmed the departure of the player who was part of the New York Yankees, the Minnesota Twins, the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros.
The Venezuelan utility recorded his best season in 2017, when he became a fundamental piece of the Astros to win their first World Series title in franchise history; in that year he batted .303 with 23 home runs and 90 RBIs in the regular season.
According to Heyman, the Orix Buffaloes offered González a $1.5 million guaranteed contract to sign him so they could introduce a team made up mainly of young players.
It is speculated that the objective of González, 33, is to finish his career in Japanese baseball, a league in which more and more Venezuelans tend to make this decision because they are taken into account by their teams and in most cases they end up being figures of great weight in their clubs.
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