Life and Baseball

Johnny Cueto‘s personal life is starting to intrude on his baseball life:

Cueto is still in the Dominican Republic while tending to his 71-year-old father, whose health challenges have improved to the point where he can travel but was awaiting final documentation.

Giants GM Bobby Evans said Monday he received indications that the visa and passport issues were close to being resolved, and that Cueto would be in Scottsdale sometime during the middle of this week. Of course, Evans had the same indications a few days earlier, when the club believed that Cueto would arrive over the past weekend.

This much is clear: the Giants would not be cool with Cueto going straight to Miami to join the Dominican Republic team for the World Baseball Classic. Cueto was supposed to report to the Giants on Feb. 13 and train with them before leaving March 6 for the WBC.

I would do the same thing in Cueto’s shoes. It looks to me that he’ll need to skip the WBC, however, which will be a tough loss for the team from the Dominican Republic.

from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2lPIbUU