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Although there are still four months to go before the start of the 2025-2026 campaign of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, there are already several issues to analyse, some changes of players have already been made, not with the aggressiveness of previous years, surely they will be waiting for the meetings held by the league, They will surely be waiting for the league meetings, which by the way, have already been held, where they announced the start date of the tournament, which will be October 16, it was also known that the quota of imported players would have a maximum of six foreigners, but before this the names of the 8 managers were known, some ratified, as in the case of Lipso Navas, The latter caused a real stir in social networks, due to the fact that he is not very well liked by the fans of the Leones del Caracas, other managers moved from one team to another, as is the case of the last two champion managers, Henri Blanco, who won the title last season with the Cardenales de Lara, will now be the manager of the Bravos de Margarita, while Oswaldo Guillen was named manager of the Tigres de Aragua, this move was a real surprise, as it was thought that Oswaldo would not return to manage in Venezuela.

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Within the group of 8 managers of the upcoming season of the Venezuelan baseball, we will have three debutants, such as Cesar Izturis, Gregorio Petit and Asdrubal Cabrera, the latter without any experience in the management of professional teams, Cabrera who announced his retirement two seasons ago, will take the reins of the Caribes de Anzoategui, a team that is in full restructuring, for many it is a real gamble to appoint Cabrera as manager of the aborigines, claiming that he has no preparation as a coach, But remember that the current champion manager of the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean, Albert Pujols, who took the reins of the Escogido, being a total inexperienced in this role and that performance has led him to be appointed manager of the Caribbean country in the next World Baseball Classic, Yadier Molina started as manager in Venezuela and did not do badly, Luis Ugueto was harshly criticised by the fans of the Cardenales de Lara and eventually led them to the title in the 19-20 season, perhaps Cabrera will be the man who returns to lead the Caribes to the path of victories.

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Unlike Cabrera, Izturis and Petit, already have a path made in their careers as coaches, Izturis comes from being bench coach of the Cardinals in the last two seasons, was manager in the Major League of Venezuela, currently serves as bench coach in the league of Mexico, hence the Red Birds gave him the responsibility, for his part to the Tiburones de La Guaira will arrive, Gregorio Petit, who is managing in the category double A of the Houston Astros, has a professional profile quite similar to that of Carlos Mendoza, Gregorio was intended by the fans of the Lions, but that remained in that, only pretensions.

In my very personal opinion, of the three young managers, I like the preparation that Petit has, already come in full ascent, from the lower categories, knows the Venezuelan league, knows that you must play aggressively on the bases, that is where the success of Henri Blanco has been, which in the last three seasons has gone to the final and where it was achieved last season, I think the Sharks are leaving a message between the lines with the hiring of Petit, which would be to return the style of play of Blanco to the escualos, while Cardenales, wants to give continuity to that style of play, as Izturis was the second in command in the ninth cardinal, I think the season of 2025-2026. It will be one of the tightest of the last 10 years, in January we will read this article again, to know how true my opinion was.

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