{"id":484170,"date":"2025-09-24T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-catcher-gary-sanchez\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:59:08","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-sign-catcher-gary-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-catcher-gary-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao sign catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. \u2013&nbsp;<\/strong>The Gigantes del Cibao announced the signing of veteran Dominican catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez, a move that immediately strengthens the team&#8217;s experience and depth for the upcoming season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM).\n\n<strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/escogido-anuncia-a-los-panamenos-arauz-y-agrazal-como-refuerzos\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Escogido announces Panamanians Ara\u00faz and Agrazal as reinforcements<\/a>\n\nS\u00e1nchez, a native of Santo Domingo and 32 years old, has 11 seasons of experience in Major League Baseball, where he has played catcher for the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, and Baltimore Orioles.\n\nIn the most recent 2025 campaign, the catcher played 29 games with the Baltimore Orioles before leaving due to injury. During his time with the Yankees, he was recognized with two All-Star Game selections in 2017 and 2019, establishing himself as one of the most powerful catchers of his generation.\n\nIn the Dominican winter league, Gary was chosen by the Leones del Escogido in the first round of the 2011 rookie draft. Since then, he has participated in five campaigns, wearing the jerseys of both Escogido and Toros del Este.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Words from the President<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThe president of operations of the Gigantes del Cibao, Lic. Alfredo Acebal Rizek, expressed his satisfaction with the arrival of the star player.\n\n&#8220;Gary S\u00e1nchez is a catcher with a great track record and quality, he arrives in very good condition and we know that he will contribute his leadership and experience to our team. We give him the warmest welcome to the family of the Gigantes del Cibao.&#8221; Said the chief operating executive\n\nWith the signing of S\u00e1nchez, the Gigantes del Cibao reinforce their lineup with a power bat and a player with extensive experience in high-level scenarios, reaffirming their aspirations to conquer the championship in the coming season.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds. \u2013&nbsp;The Gigantes del Cibao announced the signing of veteran Dominican catcher Gary S\u00e1nchez, a move that immediately strengthens the team&#8217;s experience and depth for the upcoming season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). You may be interested in::Escogido announces Panamanians Ara\u00faz and Agrazal as reinforcements S\u00e1nchez, a native of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484171,"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":[39781,611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-484170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21Xc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/images-4.jpeg","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\/09\/images-4.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484170","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=484170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}