Baseball Latin America – Baseball Brazil

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I saw this today in both El Nuevo Herald and on mopupduty.com. Pedro Luis Lazo is the winningest pitcher in the Cuban National Series; 257 wins over a 21 season career. At one point in their careers, both Lazo and Jose Contreras were on the same pitching staff in Pinar del Rio.

Here’s the mopupduty.com link: http://mopupduty.com/index.php/pedro-luis-lazo-retiring/

Here’s the Nuevo Herald article in Spanish: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/08/29/791960/lazo-se-retirara-a-fin-de-ano.html

Although Lazo’s 37 years old and pretty wide in the girth, you have to wonder if he’d have any bullets left to effectively pitch in the MLB for any part of a season (like the last part), even as a gimmicky, yet effective, reliever. I’m sure he wonders if he does as well, and I thought it interesting he made his retirement announcement before the start of the pre-Pan American Games qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico next week, instead of after it.