{"id":108681,"date":"2026-02-17T09:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/aguilas-cibaenas-secures-its-core-key-renewals-for-new-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:04:48","slug":"aguilas-cibaenas-secures-its-core-key-renewals-for-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/aguilas-cibaenas-secures-its-core-key-renewals-for-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as Secures Its Core: Key Renewals For New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"Santiago &#8211; The \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as have secured the continuity of four key pieces of their native talent, according to the team&#8217;s operations management.\n\nThe players who renewed are pitchers Junior Fern\u00e1ndez, Erick Mej\u00eda and Luis Gonz\u00e1lez, along with the versatile Alfredo Reyes.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strengthening Strategy<\/h2>\n\n\nThe organization emphasized that these contract extensions are part of a strategy to strengthen a competitive core. The goal is to combine experience, proven talent, and commitment to the club&#8217;s identity for the upcoming season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League.\n\nJunior Fern\u00e1ndez remains a reliable reliever, backed by an outstanding regular season with an ERA of 2.40 and 15 strikeouts in 15 innings.\n\nErick Mej\u00eda continues his development as a power pitcher, reaching speeds exceeding 95 miles per hour. This after his participation in three levels of minor leagues with the Washington Nationals during the summer of 2025.\n\nLuis Gonz\u00e1lez, a left-handed pitcher native of Esperanza, establishes himself as a specialist in critical situations, showing an effectiveness of 0.77 and 18 strikeouts in 11.2 innings during the 2024 season.\n\nAlfredo Reyes provides defense and speed, qualities he demonstrated in the last semifinal, where he batted .375 (3 hits in 8 at-bats).\n\nThe Eagles&#8217; directive highlighted that these signings go beyond simple administrative moves, representing a direct bet on maintaining the team&#8217;s competitiveness.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago &#8211; The \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as have secured the continuity of four key pieces of their native talent, according to the team&#8217;s operations management. The players who renewed are pitchers Junior Fern\u00e1ndez, Erick Mej\u00eda and Luis Gonz\u00e1lez, along with the versatile Alfredo Reyes. Strengthening Strategy The organization emphasized that these contract extensions are part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5355,1180,2607],"class_list":{"0":"post-108681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cibao-eagles","10":"tag-launchers","11":"tag-renewal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108681","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=108681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}