# Cuban Baseball Player Santiago Torres Will Play in Panama

**Date:** 12/12/2021

Cuban baseball player Santiago Torres, one of the island's top young talents, signed a contract this week with the Chiriquí Federals, a team in Panama's professional baseball league managed by Pinar del Río mentor Alfonso Urquiola.

"Professor Alfonso Urquiola, who manages Chiriquí, has been in contact with me and everything indicates that if I do teamwork I will be in the game from opening day," said the second baseman for the Santiago Wasps to the official press.

Santiago Torres has a great commitment since Chiriquí is the current champion of Panamanian baseball. On the other hand, Urquiola intends to use the second baseman from the very start of the next season, scheduled for December 10.

"I have been training hard and I feel in perfect athletic form," said the player who played this position on team Cuba for a long time alongside Cienfuegos native César Prieto, who fled during the Pre-Olympic tournament in Florida and is seeking to make his way in Major League Baseball.

The 26-year-old from Santiago signed his contract in Havana under the management of the company representing Panama, Cubadeportes S.A and Yosvani Aragón, vice president of the Cuban Baseball Federation.

Torres traveled on December 8 to Panama City, arriving with experience gained in seven National Series, in which he accumulated a .311 offensive average with 53 doubles, 15 triples and 21 home runs and 125 runs batted in.

In the most recent season he recorded his best performance, averaging offensively .363 with 13 home runs, 81 runs scored and 56 RBIs.

Since their founding in 1945, the Chiriquí Federals have won 16 national titles and are currently managed by the renowned Pinar del Río manager Alfonso Urquiola. The experienced Cuban mentor thus added his third personal title as manager in that country's baseball.