How strong will the rival of the current Champion of Cuba be? What are its weak weaknesses? What could define this unprecedented semifinal in Cuban baseball?

Las Tunas, Cuba.- 26Digital offers you some keys to the Cuban baseball semifinal that starts today at the Julio Antonio Mella stadium.

	Gracial-Arruebarruena pairing Matanzas manager Armando Ferrer announced that these will be his third and fourth bats. Regardless of how Gracial arrives, the two most media players of the Crocodiles could be a differential factor of the playoff for their proven quality in the highest level foreign leagues. Minimizing its offensive production will be the challenge of the Leñadores pitching staff.
	Starting pitching His first three openers are the best of the championship and in this section they surpass the Leñadores. Yoanni Yera, Freddy Asiel Álvarez and the improved Yamichel Pérez have had an outstanding season, if they manage to repeat their performances, Matanzas would be close to the final. To win, Las Tunas will have to impose their strength to bat against these pitchers.
	Best defense The best defense of the series fielded for 982 and added a luxury protagonist, César Prieto, from Cienfuegos, will defend the second base; so Matanzas will have the shortstop and the second baseman of the last team Cuba.
	Relievers’ instability Despite having Yónder Martínez, Yaniel Blanco and Armando Dueñas, the Crocodiles suffered to finish the games, a constant in all teams. Its trio of “fire extinguishers” alternated good and bad performances. Miguel Lahera, a tanned pitcher on the hill, joins them, but with the same doubts as his new teammates.
	Outfielders defense An experienced man like Armando Ferrer knows that the defense of the outfields is defining in a postseason series. Eduardo Blanco, neither Javier Camero, nor Raico Santos offers the greatest guarantees. The reinforcement outfielder from Granmahas already failed in the Wild Card Series, and Camero does not excel in the custody of the left forest.
	No tempering at specific times It is what fears many Matanzas fans. The Víctor Mesa period is more remembered for the failures in playoffs, than for removing Matanzas from the basement where it was placed for years. Matanzas looks for its first title and in its eagerness, they will have two initial rivals: the Champion of Cuba and the pressure that he has never won, even with better teams.