The New York Yankees, the world’s most famous and successful baseball team, have acquired the playing rights of Hungarian talent Márkó Morua. The 16-year-old player will be able to start playing for the American club next January.
Márkó Morua was originally signed by the San Diego Padres, also in the North American professional league (MLB), in August last year, but in January it turned out that there had been an administrative error and the playing rights did not go to the Californian team after all. That is when the Yankees, who had been watching the young Hungarian catcher for some time, came into the picture and signed him after ten days of comprehensive testing.
Roberto Morua, Márkó’s father, said that when the agreement was reached, Mario Garza, the New York team’s director of international player scouting, said that by signing Márkó, they had hit the jackpot.
Sports Illustrated (SI), one of the most prominent American sports magazines, wrote on its website that the Yankees paid more than half a million dollars for the Hungarian talent’s playing rights. By comparison, last year the San Diego Padres offered 70,000.
Other teams also made offers for Morua, but the Yankees beat everyone to the punch by putting a much more serious amount on the table. This shows how much they believe in the 16-year-old Hungarian player,”
wrote SI.
Márkó Morua is the first Hungarian to sign a professional contract with an MLB team. He will join the New York Yankees next January, but until then, like his brother Martin, he will continue to train at an academy in the Dominican Republic.
Márkó Morua’s grandfather introduced the sport to Hungary and founded the first domestic association in 1990 in Óbuda. He also worked as a coach at the Óbuda Baseball Club and played a major role in the founding of the Hungarian Baseball Association in 1992. Like him, Roberto Morua is a committed fan of the sport and is currently the president of Óbuda Baseball and Softball SE, as well as the captain of the Hungarian national teams for adults, U18 and U15.
The New York Yankees are the most successful team in MLB history, with a record 27 championship titles.
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