{"id":101803,"date":"2026-01-07T04:58:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/aaron-sanchez-of-the-toros-del-este-lidom-pitcher-of-the-year-2025-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:58:31","slug":"aaron-sanchez-of-the-toros-del-este-lidom-pitcher-of-the-year-2025-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/aaron-sanchez-of-the-toros-del-este-lidom-pitcher-of-the-year-2025-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron S\u00e1nchez of the Toros del Este, LIDOM Pitcher of the Year 2025-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Aaron S\u00e1nchez is Awarded as Pitcher of the Year in the LIDOM 2025-2026<\/h2>\n\nThe pitcher for the Toros del Este, Aaron S\u00e1nchez, has been recognized as the Pitcher of the Year in the 2025-2026 season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), after a resounding vote by a jury of specialized communicators.\n\nS\u00e1nchez obtained a total of 58 votes for first place out of a possible 69, demonstrating his dominance in the election. The league&#8217;s weighted voting system assigns seven points to first place, four to second, three to third, two to fourth, and one to fifth.\n\nThe Toros&#8217; pitcher accumulated 441 points, the result of his 58 first-place votes, five second-place votes, and five third-place votes. \u00d3scar De La Cruz, from the Estrellas Orientales, followed in the voting with 185 points, and J.C. Mej\u00eda, from the Tigres del Licey, with 165.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Joe Corbett (Toros del Este)<\/li>\n<li>Patrick Weigel (Estrellas Orientales)<\/li>\n<li>Grant Gavin (Leones del Escogido)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nAt 33 years old, S\u00e1nchez had a standout season. In eight starts, he pitched 46.1 innings, allowing only eight earned runs, issuing nine walks, and striking out 34 batters. He limited the opposition to 35 hits.\n\nHis performance earned him a 4-2 record, a 1.55 ERA, and a 0.95 WHIP, leading both departments in the league. In addition, he held opposing batters to a .208 batting average. His consistency and control on the mound were key to obtaining the jury&#8217;s support.\n\nThe jury was composed of 69 members, including independent communicators, representatives of the press departments of the teams, Dominican communicators in the United States, international reporters, and communicators from provinces without professional baseball organizations.\n\nThe provinces represented in the vote were La Altagracia, El Seibo, Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez, Valverde, Puerto Plata, La Vega, Espaillat, Monse\u00f1or Nouel and Peravia, ensuring plurality and transparency.\n\nWith this recognition, Aaron S\u00e1nchez is consolidated as a key figure in the 2025-2026 LIDOM championship, after an outstanding season with the Toros del Este.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron S\u00e1nchez is Awarded as Pitcher of the Year in the LIDOM 2025-2026 The pitcher for the Toros del Este, Aaron S\u00e1nchez, has been recognized as the Pitcher of the Year in the 2025-2026 season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), after a resounding vote by a jury of specialized communicators. S\u00e1nchez obtained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10078,1784,1279,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-101803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-aaron-sanchez","9":"tag-launcher","10":"tag-lidom","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}