{"id":477076,"date":"2025-08-01T11:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/gigantes-del-cibao-announce-the-return-of-jose-reyes-as-ambassador-and-face-of-the-franchise\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:15:21","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-announce-the-return-of-jose-reyes-as-ambassador-and-face-of-the-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/gigantes-del-cibao-announce-the-return-of-jose-reyes-as-ambassador-and-face-of-the-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao announce the return of Jos\u00e9 Reyes as ambassador and face of the franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. \u2013<\/strong> The Gigantes del Cibao announced the official return of Jos\u00e9 Reyes, known as \u201cLa Melaza,\u201d who will assume the role of ambassador and representative figure of the franchise. The former player, who left his mark on Dominican baseball and in Major League Baseball, rejoins the team with an agenda of activities that will span before, during, and after the season.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/resumen-mlb-ozuna-y-albies-lideran-triunfo-de-bravos-en-jornada-explosiva-ante-los-rojos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MLB Summary: Ozuna and Albies lead Braves&#8217; victory in explosive day against the Reds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nReyes formalized his return to the Colts during a meeting held last Wednesday with the team president, Alfredo Acebal Rizek, and the marketing manager, Rafael Almanzar. His new stage with the team will include functions as a promotional image, participation in institutional events, visits to the Juli\u00e1n Javier stadium, interaction with players and fans, in addition to the realization of baseball clinics.\n\n&#8220;How good it feels to wear this jacket again. It&#8217;s special, as it was the franchise that believed in me and gave me the opportunity to play in LIDOM when I was just starting my career. Honestly, I&#8217;m happy to be back and ready to help our players,&#8221; expressed an excited Jos\u00e9 Reyes.\n\nThe former shortstop played with the Gigantes del Cibao for four seasons between the years 2000 and 2004, a period in which he laid the foundation for a distinguished professional career. His return represents a strong emotional and sporting bond with the Cibao fans and a new opportunity to contribute from another role to the organization.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. \u2013 The Gigantes del Cibao announced the official return of Jos\u00e9 Reyes, known as \u201cLa Melaza,\u201d who will assume the role of ambassador and representative figure of the franchise. The former player, who left his mark on Dominican baseball and in Major League Baseball, rejoins the team with an agenda of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":477077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,16806,9098,41186],"class_list":["post-477076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-gigantes-del-cibao","tag-lidom","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-206M","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-01-at-11.-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-01-at-11.-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}