Rosario started establishing himself as a swing-happy but productive major-leaguer in 2015, a season after serving a 50-game suspension for violating Minor League Baseball’s drug policy. “The Puerto Rican press has never given him the space he deserves,” said Alberto Moret, who coached Rosario as a teenager.
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Rosario’s game-tying, two-out single in the final game of the National Division Series made it into one article as a throwaway mention. Seven of the articles were published after the start of the NLCS. Rosario has merely received nine tags, and the stories mentioning him were aggregated from different sources. 4, it has published 31 articles with Correa tagged as a topic and 21 with Hernández. The country’s most circulated newspaper, “El Nuevo Día,” has exhaustively covered the American League playoffs. Still, coverage of Rosario pales in comparison. Correa and Hernández, as well as catchers Christian Vázquez and Martín Maldonado, have continued to draw the lion’s share of the island’s attention this postseason a few Puerto Rican reporters were deployed to the United States for the American League Championship Series to follow them. Native stars Javier Báez, Francisco Lindor, Carlos Correa and Kiké Hernández have occupied the headlines in Puerto Rico for years now, particularly when their exploits have bolstered the success of their respective teams. They are prouder yet that he is beginning to receive the national-level attention he long has deserved. The outpouring of support in Rosario’s hometown of Guayama, P.R., has been intense for a couple of weeks now, but it goes back years. … Now they want interviews and the world is looking for him.” “This kid has been making noise and putting up good numbers for years. “Now you want to interview him,” read the Spanish comment from an account named Antonio Velazquez-Rivera. From what the commenters could recall, he had never given Rosario air time. More than 200 comments had been posted by mid-afternoon and the majority ripped Torres. Hector José Torres, a local radio host who goes by DePlayMaker, had put a callout on his Facebook page Thursday morning asking to be connected to Rosario. “I’m from Barriada Marín de Guayama and there will be no interviews for anyone until after this is over.” “My people, forget the controversy and enjoy the moment,” Rosario wrote, in Spanish, on his personal Facebook page. They were happy to see his achievements recognized, but they believed the attention had come too late. His friends and followers in Puerto Rico had spent hours defending him on the internet.
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