{"id":108971,"date":"2026-02-19T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/estrellas-orientales-strengthen-pitching-franzua-and-vizcaino-renewed\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:15:09","slug":"estrellas-orientales-strengthen-pitching-franzua-and-vizcaino-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/estrellas-orientales-strengthen-pitching-franzua-and-vizcaino-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrellas Orientales Strengthen Pitching: Franz\u00faa and Vizca\u00edno Renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"SAN PEDRO DE MACOR\u00cdS &#8211; The Estrellas Orientales have reinforced their pitching staff by securing the services of relievers Ger\u00f3nimo Franz\u00faa and Raffi Vizca\u00edno, according to an official statement from the team.\n\nBoth players, who became free agents on February 15th, have renewed their commitment to the team. This is due to the labor agreement between the National Federation of Professional Baseball Players (FENAPEPRO) and the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League, which allowed the Estrellas to negotiate exclusively with them for a month.\n\nThe previous contracts of Franzu\u00e1 and Vizca\u00edno had expired, in accordance with the regulations established in the agreement between FENAPEPRO and the league.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pitchers&#8217; Career with the Stars<\/h2>\n\n\nGer\u00f3nimo Franz\u00faa has been a key team member for four seasons, accumulating a 6-2 record in 47 games and 39.2 innings pitched, with an ERA of 2.95.\n\nIn the previous season, Franzu\u00e1 participated in 8 games, pitching 5.0 innings without a decision, facing 25 batters. His debut with the Estrellas was in the 2019-2020 season.\n\nRaffi Vizca\u00edno also debuted with the Estrellas in the same season, and has played with the team for six campaigns. His record is 3-3, with an ERA of 3.68 and a save in 79 games, including 16 appearances in the last tournament, where he went 1-1, with an ERA of 3.29 in 13.2 innings, facing 53 batters.\n\nBoth Franzu\u00e1 and Vizca\u00edno serve as middle relievers, with Franzu\u00e1 frequently being used against left-handed batters.\n\nThese two players are the first restricted free agents to agree to continue with the Stars this season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN PEDRO DE MACOR\u00cdS &#8211; The Estrellas Orientales have reinforced their pitching staff by securing the services of relievers Ger\u00f3nimo Franz\u00faa and Raffi Vizca\u00edno, according to an official statement from the team. Both players, who became free agents on February 15th, have renewed their commitment to the team. This is due to the labor agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11888,6014,7295,11889],"class_list":{"0":"post-108971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-franzua","9":"tag-relievers","10":"tag-stars","11":"tag-vizcaino"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108971","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=108971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}