{"id":486463,"date":"2025-10-12T17:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/maldonado-completes-the-list-of-reinforcements-for-the-leones-del-escogido\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T17:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T21:18:18","slug":"maldonado-completes-the-list-of-reinforcements-for-the-leones-del-escogido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/maldonado-completes-the-list-of-reinforcements-for-the-leones-del-escogido\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldonado completes the list of reinforcements for the Leones del Escogido"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO.- Puerto Rican catcher Mart\u00edn Maldonado will be a reinforcement for the Leones del Escogido for the second consecutive season, according to the general manager of the national and Caribbean champions, Carlos Pe\u00f1a.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong>Griffin Conine will reinforce Licey this season<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n“The presence of Mart\u00edn immediately elevates the level of our team. His experience behind the plate, proven leadership, and knowledge of the game are invaluable. Having a catcher of his caliber is a luxury that strengthens us in every aspect,” Pe\u00f1a declared.\n\nWith Maldonado behind the home plate in the 2024-25 tournament, the Leones had a record of 8-2. The effectiveness of the scarlet pitchers was 3.00, the third best among the catchers who were in play in at least 90 innings of the last tournament.\n\nIn addition, he caught 30.8 percent of runners who tried to steal on him. The league average was 22.4 percent.\n\nDuring the summer, Maldonado extended his total of campaigns in the Major Leagues to 15 by playing with the San Diego Padres. In 64 games, he hit 4 home runs, drove in 12 runs, scored 11 and batted .204.\n\nIn the Majors, the Naguabo native has combined 119 home runs, 384 RBIs, 369 runs scored, 138 doubles, and an OPS of .620 in 1,230 games.\n\nIn addition to San Diego, he has played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and the Houston Astros, a team he helped win the 2022 World Series.\n\nDefensively at the highest level, his percentage of runners caught stealing is 28.4. In 2017, he was a Gold Glove winner wearing the Angels uniform.\n\nMaldonado joins infielders Jonathan Ara\u00faz and C\u00e9sar Prieto, right-handed pitchers Grant Gavin, Dar\u00edo Agrazal, Norge Ruiz, Jos\u00e9 Espada and Indigo D\u00edaz, and left-handers Jonathan Berm\u00fadez and Dari\u00e9n N\u00fa\u00f1ez, within the list of reinforcements of the 17-time national champions for the season that begins this Wednesday, October 15th.\n\n\n


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SANTO DOMINGO.- Puerto Rican catcher Mart\u00edn Maldonado will be a reinforcement for the Leones del Escogido for the second consecutive season, according to the general manager of the national and Caribbean champions, Carlos Pe\u00f1a. You may be interested in:Griffin Conine will reinforce Licey this season “The presence of Mart\u00edn immediately elevates the level of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":486464,"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":[611,40231,9098,41186],"class_list":["post-486463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22yb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Martin-Maldonado-2024-25.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\/10\/Martin-Maldonado-2024-25.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486463","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=486463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}