Manager does not see role for Bernie Williams in WBC

(El Nuevo Dia, San Juan): "Bernie Williams is participating in the winter baseball because he wants to be part of the Puerto Rican team in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.

• And if the local tournament will be the barometer for selecting gardeners Puerto Rican reserves of the ninth,

• then the slope is steeper for the former star outfielder for the New York Yankees.

Before putting on the uniform of the Giants Carolina last weekend, the latest involving Williams had been in baseball in 2006, with the Yankees.

• With Carlos Beltran and stellar Alexis Rios and planted the alleged availability of David de Jesus, the team's three gardens are covered. That leaves one or two slots available for.. reserves.

"For me it is hard to see the role of Bernie for the Classic. In Puerto Rico there is much active material is very good and some are left out," he told El Nuevo Dia, Edwin Rodriguez, leader of the Triple A affiliate of the Florida Marlins.

• Rodriguez, who said that all the aforementioned players are superior to Williams, he added that "Bernie everyone appreciates and might include it by sentimentality, but not by its effect (in the winter league). For me as a coach, thinking cold and win matches, you do not see a role in the team. ""...google translation from Spanish, photo from El Neuvo Dia

UPDATE, 12/31/08, El Nuevo Dia: 'Bernie will be considered for WBC,' Puerto Rico manager

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