{"id":479965,"date":"2025-08-25T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/gigantes-del-cibao-announce-reid-birlingmair-as-their-third-reinforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:04:38","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-announce-reid-birlingmair-as-their-third-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/gigantes-del-cibao-announce-reid-birlingmair-as-their-third-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao announce Reid Birlingmair as their third reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


<\/p>\n\n\nSan Francisco de Macor\u00eds<\/strong>. \u2014 The Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong> announced the signing of American right-handed pitcher Reid Birlingmair<\/strong>, who becomes the third foreign reinforcement<\/strong> confirmed by the franchise for the start of the 2025-2026 season<\/strong> of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM)<\/strong>, scheduled to begin on October 15<\/strong>.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Gigantes del Cibao will begin their training on Monday, September 22<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nBirlingmair, 28 years old<\/strong>, comes from a standout performance in the Mexican Baseball League (LMB)<\/strong>, where he was part of the bullpen for the Guerreros de Oaxaca<\/strong> during the 2025 season. In 37 games<\/strong> played as a reliever, he pitched 34.1 innings<\/strong> with an ERA of 4.98<\/strong>, recording a record of 8 wins and 1 loss<\/strong>. In addition, he allowed 21 runs<\/strong> (19 earned), gave 18 walks<\/strong> and struck out 44 batters<\/strong>, finishing with a WHIP of 1.60<\/strong>.\n\nThe information was provided by Lic. Alfredo Acebal Rizek<\/strong>, president of operations for the Giants, who highlighted the importance of adding the pitcher as part of the team’s competitive plan.\n\n\n

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“We have announced our third imported player, a right-handed pitcher with a great desire to participate in our league and who has experience in the Caribbean, after his recent stint in Mexico with the Guerreros de Oaxaca. With his incorporation, we already have three important arms<\/strong> to face the next season,” expressed Acebal Rizek.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe executive also reaffirmed the franchise’s commitment to its fans:\n\n\n

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“We continue to work tirelessly because we have clear goals for the season. The first is to achieve qualification<\/strong>, as our commitment is Giant<\/strong> to the fans and to the entire Cibao region.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nWith this signing, Reid Birlingmair<\/strong> joins pitchers Scott Engler<\/strong> and Daniel Mengden<\/strong> as the reinforcements confirmed by the Gigantes del Cibao<\/strong>, who thus become the first LIDOM team<\/strong> to complete three foreign incorporations for the 2025-2026 season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. \u2014 The Gigantes del Cibao announced the signing of American right-handed pitcher Reid Birlingmair, who becomes the third foreign reinforcement confirmed by the franchise for the start of the 2025-2026 season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), scheduled to begin on October 15. You may be interested in: Gigantes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":479966,"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":[611,40231,9098,40853],"class_list":["post-479965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20Rn","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/convert-1.webp","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\/convert-1.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479965","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=479965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}