Frederich Cepeda Cruz

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Cuban baseball player, selected in 2007 as the best Cuban athlete in team sports. In 2010 he was selected to join the Cuba team that participated in the Pre-World Championship and Pre-Pan American Baseball Championship in Puerto Rico.

Cepeda is one of the few switch-hitters in Cuban baseball, making his debut with the Sancti Spíritus team in the 1997-1998 season.

He also enjoys music, video and computing, but states that "I like to have fun; but baseball takes up all my time, it is part of my life".

Since 2002 he has been part of the Cuba Baseball Team, with which he has won the Intercontinental Cups of 2002 and 2006, the Pan American Games of 2003 and 2007, and the World Championships of 2003 and 2005.

He also was part of the winning squad at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, and was runner-up in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and the World Cup in Chinese Taipei in 2007, as well as runner-up in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

International Participation
Olympics: 2

World Championships: 3

Intercontinental Cups: 2

Pan American Games: 2

Central American and Caribbean Games: 1

All-Star Team of the II World Baseball Classic
Cuban baseball players Frederich Cepeda and Yoennis Céspedes were included among the members of the All-Star Team of the second World Baseball Classic 2009. Various news agencies report that the voting was conducted by a panel of specialized journalists who covered the event.

Among all the selected players, the only selections that were unanimous among journalists were Cuban outfielder Frederich Cepeda and Korean first baseman Tae Kyun Kim. The honorees were:

Cepeda has been part of the notable parity in the recent history of confrontations between the Cuba and United States squads, where the Americans have prevailed against the Caribbean team in the last two world versions of 2007 and 2009. Cuba crushed the northerners in the semifinals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and relegated them to second place in the 2010 University Youth World Championship.