Ronald Guzmán became the fifth player for the Gigantes del Cibao to win the Most Valuable Player award of the Dominican Republic’s professional baseball league.
Guzmán received 48% of the votes from accredited sports journalists to win the 2020-21 regular season’s best player award.
Ronald got 63 votes from the communicators who covered the tournament, easily surpassing Yamaico Navarro, the Toros del Este’s first baseman, who took 26. 8.
Your statistics
The first baseman for the Gigantes del Cibao was undoubtedly the best player of the season, after finishing his performance as leader in runs scored (25), in hits (40), total bases (58), OBP (.454) , OPS (.977), at bats (130) and as co-leader in games played (30).
His batting average was second with .360, after hitting 40 hits in 111 official at-bats, with 12 RBIs and second in received a walk (17).
Fifth Giants to Win the Prize
Ronald, who played his first full season with LIDOM, became the fifth Gigantes del Cibao player to win the award and the first since Juan Francisco to do so for the 2012-11 season.
The prize winners
2003-04 Julio Ramírez
2006-07 Erick Almonte
2007-08 Brayan Pena
2009-10 Juan Francisco
2010-11 Juan Francisco
Ronald Guzman 2020-21