To finish the summaries started on this site two days ago, included here is a full listing of Cuban League (National Series) Rookies of the Year. This award was not presented during the first five seasons of National Series play, and was later (on only two brief occasions) split into Eastern and Western league winners. The list below updates and corrects an earlier version of Top Rookies I present more than a year ago in a column published on  www.BaseballdeCuba.com.

The author with 1998 Rookie-of-the-Year Yasser Gomez, who won the award while debutting for cross-town Havana rival Metropolitanos. Gomez and 2000 winner Yoandy Urgelles were both switched to the Industriales roster after their eye-catching debuts for Metros, a tendency which suggests that this year’s winner Yusel Amador will likely also find himself wearing a Blue Lions uniform during National Series #50.

Cuban League National Series Rookies of the Year (1967-2010)

 

1962-62 (NS#1) Not Awarded

1962-63 (NS#2) Not Awarded

1963-64 (NS#3) Not Awarded

1964-65 (NS#4) Not Awarded

1965-66 (NS#5) Not Awarded

1966-67 (NS#6) Arturo Linares (Occidentales) Outfield

1967-68 (NS#7) Rodolfo Puente (Habana) Infield

1968-69 (NS#8) Armando Sánchez (Matanzas) Outfield

1969-70 (NS#9) Amado Zamora (Villa Clara) Outfield

1970-71 (NS#10) Heriberto Arboláez (Las Villas) Infield

1971-72 (NS#11) Pedro Jova (Azucareros) Infield

1972-73 (NS#12) Roberto Ramos (Azucareros) Pitcher

1973-74 (NS#13) Pedro José Rodríguez (Azucareros) Third Base

1974-75 (NS#14) Eduardo Terry (Citricultores) Pitcher

1975-76 (NS#15) Eladio Iglesias (Metropolitanos) Pitcher

1976-77 (NS#16) Lourdes Gourriel (Azurcareros) Outfield

1977-78 (NS#17) José Riveira (Villa Clara) Pitcher

1978-79 (NS#18) Alejo O’Reilly (Villa Clara) Outfield

1979-80 (NS#19) Reinaldo López (Industriales) Pitcher

1980-81 (NS#20) Rolando Verde (Industriales) Third Base

1981-82 (NS#21) Jorge Millan (Metropolitanos) First Base

1982-83 (NS#22) Rafael Gómez Mena (Metropolitanos) Pitcher

1983-84 (NS#23) Rolando Arrojo (Citricultores) Pitcher

1984-85 (NS#24) Eddy Rojas (Villa Clara) First Base/Outfield

1985-86 (NS#25) Buenafé Nápoles (Camagüey) Pitcher

1986-87 (NS#26) Alexis Cabrejas (Industriales) Outfield

1987-88 (NS#27 (Occidental League) Alexander Ramos (Isla de la Juventud) Infield

1987-88 (NS#27) (Oriente League) Teofilo Pérez (Camagüey) Pitcher

1988-89 (NS#28) (Occidental League) Dessy Lomba (Cienfuegos) Pitcher

1988-89 (NS#28)  (Oriente League) Idalberto Castillo (Granma) Pitcher

1989-90 (NS#29) Rubén Rodríguez (Santiago de Cuba) Pitcher

1990-91 (NS#30) José Lamarque (Holguín) Outfield

1991-92 (NS#31) (Occidental League) René Espin (Metropolitanos) Pitcher

1991-92 (NS#31) (Oriente League) Jorge Díaz Olano (Villa Clara) Infield

1992-93 (NS#32) Vaisel Acosta (Matanzas) Outfield

1993-94 (NS#33) Reinier Capote (Pinar del Río) Shortstop

1994-95 (NS#34) Larry Rodríguez (Habana Province) Pitcher

1995-96 (NS#35) Areal Sanchez (Villa Clara) Pitcher

(T) 1996-97 (NS#36) Maikel Quintero (Industriales) Pitcher

(T) 1996-97 (NS#36) Michel Abreu (Matanzas) First Base

(T) 1997-98 (NS#37) Yasser Gómez (Metropolitanos) Outfield

(T) 1997-98 (NS#37) Ismael Cortina (Pinar del Río) Pitcher

1998-99 (NS#38) Norlis Concepción (Las Tunas) First Base

1999-00 (NS#39) Yoandry Urgellés (Metropolitanos) Outfield

2000-01 (NS#40) Pedro José Rodríguez, Jr. (Cienfuegos) Infield

2001-02 (NS#41) Kendry Morales (Industriales) Infield

2002-03 (NS#42) Yordanis Samón (Granma) First Base

2003-04 (NS#43) Frank Montieth (Industriales) Pitcher

2004-05 (NS#44) Yadier Pedroso (Habana Province) Pitcher

2005-06 (NS#45) Alberto Soto (Granma) Pitcher

2006-07 (NS#46) Raiko Olivares (Industriales) Infield

2007-08 (NS#47) Yosvany Pérez (Villa Clara) Pitcher

2008-09 (NS#48) Michel Gorgüet (Guantánamo) Infield

2009-10 (NS#49) Yusel Amador (Metropolitanos) Outfield

Supplementing yesterday’s posted listing of Cuban League MVP winners over the years, here is the complete list of the league’s post-season “Most Valuable” honorees. This award began in 1986, the first season in which the Cuban League decided its champion with a year-end playoff system.

The author with two-time Industriales playoff MVP Alexander Malleta (Havana, 2007)

Cuban League Post-Season Most Valuable Players (1986-2010)

 

1985-86 (NS#25) Agustín Marquetti (Industriales) First Base

1986-87 (NS#26) Rogelio García (Vegueros) Pitcher

1987-88 (NS#27) Omar Ajete (Vegueros) Pitcher

1988-89 (NS#28) Ariel Cutiño (Santiago de Cuba) Pitcher

1989-90 (NS#29) Jorge Luis Valdés (Henequeneros) Pitcher

1990-91 (NS#30) Jorge Luis Valdés (Henequeneros) Pitcher

1991-92 (NS#31) Leonardo Tamayo (Industriales) Pitcher

1992-93 (NS#32) Victor Mesa (Villa Clara) Outfield

1993-94 (NS#33) Rolando Arrojo (Villa Clara) Pitcher

1994-95 (NS#34) Jorge Luis Toca (Villa Clara) First Base

1995-96 (NS#35) Lázaro Valle (Industriales) Pitcher

1996-97 (NS#36) Pedro Luis Lazo (Pinar del Río) Pitcher

1997-98 (NS#37) José Ariel Contreras (Pinar del Río) Pitcher

1998-99 (NS#38) Norge Luis Vera (Santiago de Cuba) Pitcher

1999-00 (NS#39) Fausto Alvarez (Santiago de Cuba) Outfield/DH

2000-01 (NS#40) Norge Luis Vera (Santiago de Cuba) Pitcher

2001-02 (NS#41) Oscar Gil (Holguín) Pitcher

2002-03 (NS#42) Antonio Scull (Industriales) First Base

2003-04 (NS#43) Enríque Díaz (Industriales) Second Base

2004-05 (NS#44) Ormari Romero (Santiago de Cuba) Pitcher

2005-06 (NS#45) Alexander Malleta (Industriales) First Base

2006-07 (NS#46) Alexei Bell (Santiago de Cuba) Outfield

2007-08 (NS#47) Rolando Meriño (Santiago de Cuba) Catcher

2008-09 (NS#48) Miguel Alfredo González (Habana Province) Pitcher

2009-10 (NS#49) Alexander Malleta (Industriales) First Base

 

Followinbg yesterday’s announcement of post-season award winners, I have received several requests for the complete list of Cuban League Most Valuable Player honorees down through the years. Thus I provide them here.

The author with two-time Cuban League MVP winner Alfredo Despaigne (Italy 2009)

Cuban League National Series Most Valuable Players (1962-2010)

 

Year (NSeries #) – Player (Team) Position

1962 (I) – Erwin Walters (Occidentales) Outfield

1963 (II) - Modesto Verdura (Azucareros) Pitcher

1964 (III) - Pedro Chávez (Occidentales) Outfield/First Base

1965 (IV) – Urbano González (Industriales) Second Base               

1966 (V) – Lino Betancourt (Henequeneros) First Base

1967 (VI) – Pedro Chávez (Industriales) Outfield/First Base

1968( VII) – Eulogio Osorio (Habana) Outfield

1969 (VIII) – Wilfredo Sánchez (Henequeneros) Outfield

1970 (IX) – Wilfredo Sánchez (Henequeneros) Outfield

1971 (X) – Antonio Jiménez (Industriales) Pitcher

1972 (XI) – Agustín Marquetti (Industriales) First Base

1973 (XII) – Armando Capiró (Habana) Outfield

1974 (XIII) – Antonio Muñoz (Azucareros) First Base

1975 (XIV) – Walfrido Ruíz (Agricultores) Pitcher

1976 (XV) – Omar Carrero (Ganaderos) Pitcher

1977 (XVI) – Isidro Pérez (Azucareros) Pitcher

1978 (XVII) – Fernándo Sánchez (Henequeneros) Outfield

1979 (XVIII) – Wilfredo Sánchez (Citricultores) Outfield

1980 (XIX) – Pedro José Rodríguez (Cienfuegos) Third Base

1981 (XX) – Rogelio García (Vegueros) Pitcher

1982 (XXI) – Fernándo Hernández (Vegueros) Outfield

1983 (XXII) – Lázaro Junco (Citricultores) Outfield

1984 (XXIII) – Luis Giraldo Casanova (Vegueros) Outfield

1985 (XXIV) – Omar Linares (Vegueros) Third Base

1986 (XXV) – Lázaro Vargas (Industriales) Third Base

1987 (XXVI) – Javier Méndez (Industriales) Outfield

1988 (XXVII) – Pedro Luis Rodríguez (Habana) Catcher

1989 (XXVIII) – Orestes Kindelán (Santiago de Cuba) Outfield/Catcher

1990 (XXIX) – Omar Linares (Vegueros) Third Base

1991 (XXX) – Lázaro Madera (Vegueros) Outfield

1992 (XXXI) – Jorge Luis Valdés (Henequeneros) Pitcher

1993 (XXXII) – Omar Linares (Pinar Del Río) Third Base

1994 (XXXIII) – Lourdes Gourriel (Sancti Spíritus) Outfield/First Base

1995 (XXXIV) – Amado Zamora (Villa Clara) Outfield

1996 (XXXV) – Jorge Fumero (Industriales) Pitcher

1997 (XXXVI) – José Estrada (Matanzas) Outfield

1998 (XXXVII) – Oscar Machado (Villa Clara) Outfield

1999 (XXXVIII) – Michel Enríquez (Isla de La Juventud) Third Base

2000 (XXXIX) – Norge Luis Vera (Santiago de Cuba) Pitcher

2001 (XL) – Maels Rodríguez (Sancti Spíritus) Pitcher

2002 (XLI) – Michel Abreu (Matanzas) First Base

2003 (XLII) – Javier Méndez (Industriales) Outfield

2004 (XLIII) – Osmani Urrutia (Las Tunas) Outfield

2005 (XLIV) – Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spíritus) Third Base

2006 (XLV) – Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spíritus) Third Base

2007 (XLVI) – Osmani Urrutia (Las Tunas) Outfield

2008 (XLVII) – Alexei Bell (Santiago de Cuba) Outfield

2009 (XLVIII) – Alfredo Despaigne (Granma) Outfield

2010 (XLIX) – Alfredo Despaigne (Granma) Outfield

 

Boasting his second consecutive home run title and barely missing a rare and most coveted “triple-crown” season, Granma outfielder Alfredo Despaigne has walked off with repeat Cuban League MVP honors and thus joined Wilfredo Sánchez and Yulieski Gourriel as the only back-to-back outstanding player honorees in league history.  The Granma slugger (also the outstanding player of last fall’s European World Cup) easily outdistancing both Gourriel and José Dariel Abreu by comfortable margins in the official Cuban press ballot announced earlier today. Despaigne this winter enjoyed one of the most complete offensive performances in National Series annals, missing his previous year’s record home run mark by only a single four bagger, hitting over .400 to overhaul both Gourriel and Abreu down the stretch run of the individual batting race, and trailing only Gourriel in the RBI department. Other noteworthy features of this year’s post-season awards include a tie for manager of the year honors, three unanimous all-star selections, and a number of surprising new faces among Cuba’s most celebrated players.

 

Below is the complete list of this year’s Cuban League post-season awards. For a more complete report, including voting details, the reader is directed to my related story appearing on www.BaseballdeCuba.com.

 

Cuban League 2010 National Series All-Star Team

 

Catcher: Yosvani Alarcón (Las Tunas)

First Base: José Dariel Abreu (Cienfuegos), Unanimous Selection

Second Base: Danel Castro (Las Tunas)

Third Base: Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spíritus), Unanimous Section

Shortstop: Alexander Guerrero (Las Tunas)

Outfield: Alfredo Despaigne (Granma), Unanimous Selection

Outfield: Alexei Bell (Santiago de Cuba), 18 votes

Outfield: Federich Cepeda (Sancti Spíritus)

DH: Rolando Meriño (Santiago de Cuba) 

Utility: Raúl González (Ciego de Avila)

Right-Handed Pitcher: Vladimir García (Ciego de Avila)

Left-Handed Pitcher: Yulieski González (Habana Province)

Relief Pitcher: Dunier Ibarra (Cienfuegos)

 

All-Defensive Team (2010 Golden Glove Selections)

 

Catcher: Eriel Sánchez (Sancti Spíritus)

First Base: Yunier Mendoza (Sancti Spíritus)

Second Base: Mario Vega (Ciego de Avila)

Third Base: Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spíritus), Unanimous Section

Shortstop: Michel González (Habana Province)

Outfield: Jorge Johnson (Las Tunas)

Outfield: Denis Laza (Habana Province)

Outfield: Juan Miguel Soriano (Cienfuegos)

Pitcher: Yoelkiz Cruz (Las Tunas)

 

Additional Post-Season Awards

 

Most Valuable Player

First Place: Alfredo Despaigne (Granma)

Second Place: Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spíritus)

Third Place: José Dariel Abreu (Cienfuegos)

 

Rookie of the Year

First Place: Yusel Amador (Metros)

Second Place: Yasmani Hernández (Villa Clara)

Third Place: Dunier Ruíz (Metros)

 

Post-Season Most Valuable Player

Alexander Malleta (Industriales)

 

Post-Season Rookie of the Year

Yasmani Hernández (Villa Clara), 20 votes 

 

Manager of the Year (Tie)

Eduado Martin (Villa Clara)

Germán Mesa (Industriales)

 

Since I have written so much of late concerning the professional league prospects of former Holguín southpaw Aroldis Chapman, it is only appropriate to comment here on the $30 million “bonus baby’s” first minor league victory. I happened to be on hand in Indianapolis last evening to witness Chapman’s largely effective 5.1-inning outing, and also to do a brief stint of color commentary about the Cuban phenomenon for the Indianapolis Indians play-by-play broadcast, alongside veteran Indians’ radio voice Howard Kellman. Chapman evened his early season’s mark at 1-1 and lowered his three-game ERA to a stellar 0.60 during the 7-1 road win before 5,000-plus at picturesque Victory Field. The Cuban struggled with both strike-zone control and mental concentration in the first two frames, yet recovered nicely to finish strong in his finest spring performance to date.  The only minimal damage off Chapman came in the way of a single unearned run, much of Chapman’s own making. Indianapolis catcher Luke Carlin lined a stinging double into the left-center gap to open the second frame, quickly stole third when Chapman seemed to forget his presence on the base paths, and then scampered home on the same play after catcher Wilkin Castillo’s peg to third bounced wildly down the left field line.  To add some further insult if not any further injury, Indians shortstop Doug Bernier also stole third base off Chapman during the same somewhat shaky second frame.

 

Castillo immediately atoned for his throwing miscue with a solo shot to right field to knot the game in the third and Chapman himself cruised after the second frame, allowing only a pair of bases-empty singles in his final three-plus innings. The final stat line for the southpaw was five walks (three in the first two frames), eight Ks, three hits, and a pair of wild pitches. The Cuban prospect disappointed many in the announced crowd of 5,462 (many of whom had come to see his highly touted 100 mph “heater”) by only reaching 99 on the radar gun with a single pitch, a fourth inning called third strike to Pittsburgh Pirates third base prospect and former Team USA standout Pedro Alvarez. Chapman hit an unofficial scoreboard-registered 98 mph on only two other occasions and heaved a total of 95 pitches (54 strikes) on the evening. His most effective delivery seemed to be a tight-breaking 76 mph slider thrown in several key situations. But the Louisville starter received sufficient offensive support (Juan Francisco also homered to put the game on ice after Chapman’s fifth-inning departure) and even contributed himself with a sharp line-drive single to left field in only his second-ever minor league at-bat.

 

In a ten-minute post-game press conference alongside manager Rick Sweet, Chapman admitted that his surprise base knock was the biggest thrill of the evening. The soft-spoken and media-shy Cuban joked openly about having something to prove to his own teammates, who had been teasing him in the Louisville dugout about going to the plate for the first time in formal competition. Chapman of course never batted in the Cuban League or in his two brief stints with the Cuban national team (the DH is a staple of international baseball) and also had not come to the plate in his first two Louisville outings (both against American League affiliate ball clubs). When asked if he had ever batted before he simply cracked a smile and said “yes, as a very young kid back in Holguín.”

 

Pressed about his approach to his third AAA-level start and his failure to uncork any triple-digit heaters, Chapman explained that his goal tonight had been to work on location and not power pitches; he admitted that he lost concentration a couple of times in the early going but was nonetheless mostly pleased with his overall progress and with this evening’s outing, especially across the final three innings. Chapman unleashed an impressive pick-off move in the first frame to eliminate Indians hitter José Tabata (who had led of the contest with a walk) and suggested that move came from extensive work in this spring’s Arizona training camp sessions with Cincinnati coaches. In addition to his 8 Ks and one eye-opening pickoff of Tabata, all other batters save one were retired by Chapman on ground balls to the infield.

 

Manager Sweet also was questioned about both Chapman’s seeming lack of ability to hold runners on second and also his elevated five-inning pitch count. The veteran minor league skipper and former big league catcher admitted that concentrating with runners on base was still “a work in progress” for his highly touted rookie. But high pitch counts, according to Sweet, are simply part of the territory with power pitchers and thus never a matter for much concern. Certainly Chapman showed notable progress over his initial two starts against Toledo and Columbus, especially the latter game on April 17 in which he worked five complete frames and gave up only a single hit and single tally, yet walked four (against only one K) and was tagged with the 3-1 road loss at the hands of the host Cleveland Indians AAA affiliate.

 

If Chapman has not quite set the world on fire during his first month in professional baseball, he has certainly continued to show improvement and considerable promise on his apparent fast-track journey toward the big leagues. Will Chapman reach Cincinnati this season? Likely so, though I still don’t think his impact in the National League will be immediate or overwhelming, at least not without further seasoning and better control of his lethal heater. Is he worth $30 million? I still don’t think so, even by the inflated standards of today’s world of professional North American sports. But there is still a definite upside to Aroldis Chapman as a stellar big league prospect. Part of that promise is obviously a phenomenal “live” arm of the type rarely seen even among today’s breed of power pitchers. Another upside is the fact that the Holguín native is still only 22 years of age–which means there is still plenty of time for him to grow mentally as a pitcher (not a mere thrower) and to learn and polish his demanding trade.

 

But there is still also a downside to Chapman, one which no one seems to be talking about and off which I tried to remind radio listeners in Indianapolis during my on-air comments last night. This is hardly an untested 22-year-old prospect experiencing his first taste of top-flight competition. You can say that about Washington Nationals hopeful Stephen Strasburg, who has been facing overmatched collegiate batsman the last three years; but you can not claim it for Chapman who has been going up against the likes of WBC all-star Freddie Cepeda, Alexei Bell, Yulieski Gourriel, Alfredo Despaigne (likely big leaguers all) for four winter seasons in Holguín. Chapman has already pitched four full years in the Cuban League (easily an equivalent of AAA North American professional baseball) and has shown little progress over his flashy Taiwan World Cup debut back in November 2007. This talented southpaw is no longer a raw novice, and if anything surprises me about Chapman it has to be the largely unacknowledged fact that he has not already progressed much further than he already has.

One of Cuba’s grandest baseball legends reaches another significant milestone when Conrado Marrero (born April 25, 1911) turns a robust ninety-nine in the spring of 2010. The last living Cuban big leaguer from pre-revolution days has been quietly residing at the modest Havana apartment of his grandson Rogelio for most of the past decade. While well into his late eighties, the indefatigable island legend was still serving as a part-time pitching coach for the Cuban League team in Granma Province. His last notable public appearance came when he tossed a ceremonial first pitch for the landmark May 1999 Team Cuba-Baltimore Orioles exhibition match in Havana’s equally venerable Latin American Stadium.

 

Marrero‘s birthday milestone placed him among a small collection of baseball’s most durable veteran survivors. Cup-of-coffee Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Tony Malinosky (who reached the century mark on October 5, 2009) is senior to the colorful Cuban icon by less than 18 months. Other centenarian major leaguers include Chester (Red) Hoff (107), Bob Wright (101), Karl Swanson (101), Johnny Daley (101), Bill Otis (100), Milt Gaston (100), Ralph Miller (100), Ed Gill (100), Charlie Emig (100), Ralph Erickson (100), Ray Cunningham (100), Howard Groskloass (100), Rollie Stiles (100), and Bill Werber (100). If the ancient Cuban survives another year he will become only baseball’s sixteenth-ever living centenarian.

 

To aging North American fans, Marrero is remembered exclusively for his five brief seasons with the American League also-ran Washington Senators, the team he joined in 1950 as a grizzled 39 year-old rookie. It has often been reported that Washington owner-manager Clark Griffith erroneously believed Marrero was born in 1919 instead of 1911 when he signed him on, but that part of the legend is probably only apocryphal. Marrero was nonetheless anything but a novelty act during his Washington years, featuring one of the league’s most devastating curves and claimed repeatedly by manager Bucky Harris to be the most valuable “stopper” on an otherwise lamentable Washington mound corps. “Connie Marrero had a windup that looked like a cross between a windmill gone berserk and a mallard duck trying to fly backwards,” once noted Dominican slugger Felipe Alou. But it was always the issue of his age (more even than his huge cigars or funky delivery) that remained the Cuban’s most notable calling card.

 

For stateside partisans whose memories stretch back a full half-century, it is nearly impossible to separate Marrero from nostalgic memories of one of the Fabulous Fifties’ most charismatic yet inept teams. Marrero seemed, in fact, to epitomize Clark Griffith’s entire stable of sad sack Washington Senators. There was plenty of raw talent to be sure in the magical arm of the fire-plug-shaped Cuban right-hander–as there was in those of fellow countrymen and Washington teammates Camilo Pascual and Pedro Ramos–but the more entertaining story for beat writers and their readers was always in the end his oversized Havana cigars, his laughter-provoking slaughtered-English phrases, and his whirling-dervish high-kicking delivery while launching the league’s most tantalizing slider and curveball.

 

The stogie, the thick Spanish accent and the elaborate windmill windup were trademark realities that merged rapidly into all-too-familiar stereotypes. In the large scheme of things Conrado Marrero was little more than a blip on the screen of baseball’s golden age fifties so dominated by names like Mantle, Musial, Williams, Spahn, Mays and Banks. But from yet another perspective, the American League Washington Senators and the whole enterprise of big league baseball were themselves, in turn, but a mere blip in the baseball-playing career of the seemingly ageless and remarkably durable Conrado Marrero.

 

For the complete story on the life and legend of Cuba’s Conrado Marrero, visit my detailed Marrero biography published on the SABR BIOGRAPHY PROJECT website:

 

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=2735&pid=8832

 

Following a tradition I began at the end of last season (June 2009), I post here my official ballot recently submitted for this year’s Cuban League National Series post-season awards. My selection for this year’s league MVP is Yulieski Gourriel, by the slimmest of margins over Alfredo Despaigne (Home Run and BA champion); while Despaigne squeaked by Gourriel in the top two individual hitting categories, Gourriel nonetheless was a main cog in leading his team to its best won-lost mark ever and the league’s best overall regular-season campaign.

My complete selections are as follows:

National Series All-Star Team

C: Ariel Pestano (Villa Clara)

1B: Jose Dariel Abreu (Cienfuegos)

2B: Yoilan Cerce (Guantanamo)

3B: Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spiritus)

SS: Luis Navas (Santiago)

OF: Alfredo Despaigne (Granma)

OF: Alexei Bell (Santiago)

OF: Henry Urrutia (Las Tunas)

DH: Isaac Martinez (Ciego de Avila)

Utility: Rolando Merino (Santiago)

RHP: Angel Pena (Sancti Spiritus)

LHP: Yulieski Gonzalez (Habana Province)

Reliever: Yohandri Portal (Industriales)

All-Defensive Team (Gold Glove)

C: Ariel Pestano (Villa Clara)

1B: Jose Dariel Abreu (Cienfuegos)

2B: Hector Olivera (Santiago)

3B: Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spiritus)

SS: Luis Navas (Santiago)

OF: Frederich Cepeda (Sancti Spiritus)

OF: Alexei Bell (Santiago)

OF: Leonys Martin (Villa Clara)

Pitcher: Yulieski Gonzalez (Habana Province)

Rookie of the Year

1st Place: Yusef Amador (Metros) 

2nd Place: Yasmani Hernandez Romero (LHP) (Villa Clara)

3rd Place: Dunier Hernandez (Metros)

Most Valuable Player

1st Place: Yulieski Gourriel (Sancti Spiritus)

2nd Place: Alfredo Despaigne (Granma)

3rd Place: Jose Dariel Abreu (Cienfuegos)

Playoffs MVP

Armando Rivero (RHP) (Industriales)

Playoffs Top Rookie

Yasmani Hernandez Romero (LHP) (Villa Clara)

Manager of the Year

Eduardo Martin (Villa Clara)