I believe it's because Puerto Rico disolved their winter league and didn't have a team to send to the series.Why is Puerto Rico not playing this year?????
They cancelled the 07/08 season because of financial reasons. It seems that the Dominican winter league is the only one that is profitable. Probably as a result of the quality of the players here in the league.
If you have noticed, the quality of Baseball being played this year at the Caribbean Series is quite bad and has to do with the level of players involved. Between the Venezuelan and Mexican teams, there are only two players in the 40-men roster of MLB teams.
Unless the quality of the players involved improves, the caribbean Series is doom to fail in the near future. They should probably invite a Cuban Team to join the league.
For that I would pay to watch the games. Not for what I'm seen this year.
Then a few members of the mexican team were seen buying 6 huge boxes of condoms. I guess they playing harder in the hotel rooms than on the field.
This would explain why they are currently in last place without a check in the win column.
And if they are dedicating themselves to the abovementioned activities, my guess is they really don't care that much about this series.