Getty Images Veteran outfielder Magglio Ordonez is waiting by the phone, hoping a team will call and allow him to continue his major league playing career. But if nobody makes an offer, he has a backup plan.
According to Robert Downs of the Detroit Free Press, Ordonez is “poised to purchase shares” in the Caribes de Anzoátegui, a top winter league organization in the 38-year-old’s native Venezuela.
But Ordonez must wait until he officially files retirement paperwork before taking an active role in the club. Via the Free Press:
“Being the active player I am, I can’t assume any type of position in the Venezuelan league, not as an owner and not as a manager,” Ordoñez said in a recent interview. “But in the future I think so.”
Caribes owner Rafael Gruszka has offered Ordoñez shares of the club, but when he will retire remains to be seen.
Ordonez batted .255/.303/.331 with five home runs and 32 RBI in 92 games last season for Detroit.
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- Francisco (FC) - Feb 12, 2012 at 2:53 PM
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a top winter league organization in the 38-year-old’s native Venezuela.
Define “top”; they only won their first championship last year and were the Pirates of the league for the previous 10 or 12, always running out of gas by mid-season when the rest of the team’s MLB and AAA players reported in November and smacked the Caribes back into the basement.
