{"id":104643,"date":"2026-01-20T16:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lions-and-bulls-reinforce-foster-miranda-crismatt-and-despaigne-to-the-draft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:51:19","slug":"lions-and-bulls-reinforce-foster-miranda-crismatt-and-despaigne-to-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/lions-and-bulls-reinforce-foster-miranda-crismatt-and-despaigne-to-the-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions and Bulls reinforce: Foster, Miranda, Crismatt and Despaigne to the Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Escogido and Toros Bolster Their Rosters with Imports for the Final Series<\/h2>\n\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The Leones del Escogido and Toros del Este teams reinforced themselves with pitchers for the Final Series of the 2025-2026 championship, dedicated to Juan Marichal and in option for the Banreservas Cup, during the Imported Draft held this Tuesday.\n\nThe Leones del Escogido selected Matt Foster and Luis Fernando Miranda, while the Toros del Este opted for Nabil Crismatt and Odrisamer Despaigne.\n\nAll the selected players belonged to the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as during the recent Round Robin, now reinforcing the teams that advanced to the final of the tournament.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Performance of Selected Pitchers<\/h3>\n\n\nMatt Foster, right-handed reliever, had an outstanding performance in the semifinal series. He recorded an ERA of 3.00, a WHIP of 1.00, and an opponents&#8217; batting average of .182. In three innings pitched, he allowed two hits, one earned run, walked one batter, struck out one batter, and earned two saves.\n\nLuis Fernando Miranda, also a right-handed pitcher, demonstrated great command by closing the Round Robin with an effectiveness of 1.50 and a WHIP of 0.33. In six innings, he allowed only two hits, one earned run, did not concede walks, and struck out seven rivals, which will strengthen the Lions&#8217; starting rotation.\n\nThe Toros del Este selected Nabil Crismatt, who was registered by the \u00c1guilas but did not see action in the semifinal, and Odrisamer Despaigne, who did pitch in the Round Robin. Despaigne had an ERA of 3.18 and a WHIP of 0.88. He worked 5.2 innings, allowing four hits, two earned runs, conceding one walk and striking out three batters.\n\nThe Imported Draft was moderated by LIDOM&#8217;s technical director, Jorge Torres, and included the participation of Carlos Pe\u00f1a, general manager of the Leones del Escogido, and Jes\u00fas Mej\u00eda, general manager of the Toros del Este.\n\nIn the list of available players, ten players were listed, eight from the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as and two from the Gigantes del Cibao.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escogido and Toros Bolster Their Rosters with Imports for the Final Series Santo Domingo \u2013 The Leones del Escogido and Toros del Este teams reinforced themselves with pitchers for the Final Series of the 2025-2026 championship, dedicated to Juan Marichal and in option for the Banreservas Cup, during the Imported Draft held this Tuesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[6717,11500,1180,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-104643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-final-series","9":"tag-imported-draft","10":"tag-launchers","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104643","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=104643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}