Baseball’s New Wave: The Young Superstars Taking Over the Game

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Mentorship has played a large role in Acuña’s rise Playing a spring training game in 2018 against the Detroit Tigers Acuña reached first base on a single While there he started talking to Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera Also from Venezuela Cabrera grew up approximately two hours away from Acuña’s hometown of La Guaira Acuña had watched Cabrera as a child and still admires him to this day Air Acuña While in Triple-A Acuña hit a home run in each of the first two games of a series Prior to the third game teammate Rio Ruiz issued Acuña a challenge If Acuña the leadoff hitter opened the game with a home run Ruiz would buy him a pair of Air Jordans Challenge accepted And Acuña indeed crushed the first pitch of the game out of the park Ruiz delivered on his promise giving Acuña a