{"id":486547,"date":"2025-10-13T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-left-handed-pitcher-clayton-andrews\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:24:57","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-sign-left-handed-pitcher-clayton-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-left-handed-pitcher-clayton-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao sign left-handed pitcher Clayton Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, &#8212;&nbsp;<\/strong>The Gigantes del Cibao announced the signing of left-handed pitcher Clayton Andrews, a pitcher with experience in the Major Leagues and outstanding recent performances in Mexican baseball.\n\n<strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"http:\/\/Maldonado completa n\u00f3mina de refuerzos de los Leones del Escogido\">Maldonado completes reinforcement roster for the Leones del Escogido<\/a>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brief Major League Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nAndrews, 28, is American and has experience in the Major Leagues with the Milwaukee Brewers, in addition to having belonged to the New York Yankees organization, where he served as a left-handed reliever.\n\nIn the last two seasons he has pitched in the Mexican Baseball League, including in 2025 with the Tigres de Quintana Roo, showing consistent performance.\n\nIn the most recent campaign, he recorded an effectiveness of 4.18 in 48 games, with 56 strikeouts in 47.1 innings pitched and, most notably, 13 saves, establishing himself as a reliable piece in the bullpen.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Manager&#8217;s Opinion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nOperations Manager Jaylon Pimentel valued the hiring of the left-hander Andrews, highlighting his ability to pitch in pressure situations:\n\n&#8220;Clayton is a proven arm with experience in different leagues, who can help us close out games and maintain control in the final innings. His versatility and consistency will be key to our bullpen this season,&#8221; Pimentel expressed.\n\nWith his arrival, the Gigantes del Cibao reinforce their left-handed relief with an experienced pitcher, with control and competitive character, who will provide depth and balance to the pitching staff for the season that will begin on Wednesday.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, &#8212;&nbsp;The Gigantes del Cibao announced the signing of left-handed pitcher Clayton Andrews, a pitcher with experience in the Major Leagues and outstanding recent performances in Mexican baseball. You may be interested in:Maldonado completes reinforcement roster for the Leones del Escogido Brief Major League Experience Andrews, 28, is American and has experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":486548,"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-486547","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\/phj1q1-22zx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/images-9.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\/10\/images-9.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486547","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=486547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}