They're young kids so they become lackadaisical, and they think that things will be easy for them forever, and they lose intensity. That's how they were able to come back there a couple times.
"Guillermo "Willy" Miranda Perez" was a Cuba/Cuban-born professional baseball player who played shortstop in the Major League Baseball/Major Leagues from 1951–1959. Born in Velasco, Cuba, Miranda was a switch-hitter who threw right-handed; he was listed at and .
He was a popular shortstop in the Cuban professional winter league, distinguishing himself as an outstanding fielder. He became even more famous in his native country for being the first Cuban player to play for the New York Yankees, particularly when this took place during the decade of the 1950s, when the Yankees won six World Series. Miranda was on the Yankee roster for the 1953 World Series but did not appear in the Fall Classic. He played for nine years in the majors for the Yankees, Minnesota Twins/Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox and Baltimore Orioles/St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles. Frequently traded early in his career, he was passed back and forth between the White Sox and Browns during the season: traded by Chicago to St. Louis on June 15, 1952; claimed on waivers by the White Sox from the Browns 13 days later; then traded back to the Browns in October 1952. Finally, in June 1953, the Browns broke the cycle by selling Miranda's contract to the Yankees.
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