{"id":109281,"date":"2026-02-20T05:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-del-cibao-leury-garcia-returns-for-11th-season-key-reinforcement\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:04:16","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-leury-garcia-returns-for-11th-season-key-reinforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-del-cibao-leury-garcia-returns-for-11th-season-key-reinforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao: Leury Garc\u00eda returns for 11th season, key reinforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds<\/strong> \u2013 Los Gigantes del Cibao ensure the continuity of Leury Garc\u00eda, who signs for a new season with the team, marking his eleventh year in the franchise.\n\nAt 34 years old, the player from Santiago continues to be a pillar in the team&#8217;s offense and defense, recognized for his versatility and leadership in the locker room.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">League Career<\/h2>\n\n\nSelected in the 2009 Rookie Draft of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League, Garc\u00eda has played all his regular seasons with the Giants, accumulating 282 hits and a batting average of .285 in 260 games. In this time, he has recorded 138 runs scored, 13 home runs and 95 RBIs.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Performance<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the 2025-2026 season, &#8220;El Picante&#8221; participated in 27 games, connecting 22 hits, including four doubles and one home run, scoring 10 runs.\n\nWith this signing, the management reinforces the team&#8217;s experience and leadership for the upcoming season, relying on their track record in the Major Leagues as a key factor in the pursuit of the championship.\n\nGarc\u00eda becomes the second player confirmed to return to the team, after reliever Jimmy Cordero.\n\nLeury is a leader on and off the field; having him with us always represents a great advantage and we are pleased to have him.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds \u2013 Los Gigantes del Cibao ensure the continuity of Leury Garc\u00eda, who signs for a new season with the team, marking his eleventh year in the franchise. At 34 years old, the player from Santiago continues to be a pillar in the team&#8217;s offense and defense, recognized for his versatility and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,65,1048,11891],"class_list":{"0":"post-109281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-contract","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-leury-garcia"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109281","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=109281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}