JESÚS AGUILAR PLANS TO PLAY WITH THE TIGRES DE ARAGUA IN DECEMBER

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Caracas.- The Tigres de Aragua offered a press conference at the José Pérez Colmenares Stadium in Maracay to inform that the big league Jesús Aguilar will be uniformed during the season, probably at the beginning of December.

"I do not have a specific date now, but it may be at the beginning of December, I am trying to make a work plan that will take me to the Spring Training," Aguilar said, according to a report from the press department of the aragüeño complex. .

The initial of the Milwaukee Brewers, who comes to play the National League Championship Series, said that since the exchange was made since the Leones del Caracas had the willingness to get uniform with their new club.

"When I heard about the change, I talked with Hernán Pérez and Carlos Tocci, and I told them: 'we are going to be champions'," he said.

Aguilar is coming off his best season in the Major Leagues by leaving a batting average of .274, and finishing fifth in home runs (35) and fourth in runs batted in (108) in the vejo circuit. A performance that earned him the Luis Aparicio Prize with the gardener Ronald Acuña Jr.

Now, with the goal of taking the Tigers to the championship, their expectations are great.

"I prepared myself mentally enough for the start of the season and I was given the opportunity and I took it (with Milwaukee). Now what it touches is to continue working. My next goal is to become champion here in Venezuela with the Tigers and play in front of my family, "concluded the maracayero.

The burly right-handed hitter, who arrived at Aragua along with Henry Rodriguez, for Alejandro Chacín, José Rondón and Juan Graterol, on January 29, added 48 homers to Caracas, the sixth highest number in the history of the franchise.