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WWoB News 12.29.59 - 01.04.60



WWoB Player of the Week (12.22-12.28)

1B Dev Venkatasubramanian 🇮🇳 -- Montevideo Falcons (LL)






Top Performances by Day:

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Worldwide News

12.29

WWoB -- Big News! Three more leagues will begin play next season in the Wide World of Baseball: Liga Patagonia (Chile, Argentina), Sovetskaya Liga (fmr. Soviet countries), and Thịy Līk (Thailand).





Thịy Līk -- About 5 minutes into the THL's existence, Udon Thani Lotas shortstop Son Phang 🇹🇭 accidentally cooks his hand instead of dinner.




12.30

SAL -- 10 games, 10 wins in the last 10 days for the Gqeberha Seemeeue, who are running away with the race for the #1 seed.


GCL -- Reigning Liga Gran Colombia Best Pitcher Miguel Aguilar 🇻🇪🇨🇴 is out for at least a year with a torn UCL. At 40 years old, this might be the last we see of him.


LL -- Reigning Wide World of Baseball Player of the Week Dev Venkatasubramanian 🇮🇳 will not repeat, he's been suspended five games by the Latin League along with Quito pitcher Jean van Breda NED after inciting a bench clearing brawl.




12.31

CPL -- Guangzhou trades former Chinese Pro League, Africa League Best Pitcher Shi-fa Xue 🇨🇳 to the Tianjin Lions for RHP prospect Ming Ru 🇨🇳.



BZL -- Rio RHP Ryoichi Matsumoto 🇧🇷🇯🇵 is out for the season with an elbow strain.



LL -- A pair of hat tricks on New Years Eve in the Latin League. Veracruz OF Freddy Yanez 🇨🇺 gets three homers in a 15-9 win over Managua, but the best performance of the night goes to Omar Rodriguez 🇨🇴, whose third homer sent the fans home happy.




01.01

WWoB -- December Player of the Month: Kimberley (SAL) RHP Getachew Muthomi 🇿🇦.






EuroLeague -- After a 15-year run in the U.S. that included a T-III Best Pitcher award, RHP Gillespie Deane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is heading home, signing with the London Monarchs.




DEL -- Deutschliga #98 ranked prospect Kazuo Kurihara 🇯🇵 is out for 2 weeks after slipping on a wet floor and straining his gluteus.





01.02

LL -- No-hitter! Kingston Crowns RHP Gustavo Herrera 🇻🇪 throws the 15th no-hitter in Latin League history, and the first of the 2059-60 season.





GCL -- Reigning Liga Gran Colombia home run champion Jose Ortiz 🇨🇴 is out for the season with a torn labrum.




01.03

No big news today.



01.04

T-III Continental League -- Memphis Cavalry trade prospects RHP Hsui-chen Li 🇹🇼 and RHP Yu-zhang Mak 🇨🇳 to the Henderson Panthers for 2052 T-IV Best Pitcher Justin Cates 🇺🇸.





SAL -- Hard hitting journalism here.




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