{"id":109283,"date":"2026-02-20T05:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/estrellas-orientales-strengthen-pitching-franzua-and-vizcaino-renewed-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:04:43","slug":"estrellas-orientales-strengthen-pitching-franzua-and-vizcaino-renewed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/estrellas-orientales-strengthen-pitching-franzua-and-vizcaino-renewed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrellas Orientales Strengthen Pitching: Franz\u00faa and Vizca\u00edno Renewed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Estrellas Orientales Reforce Their Bullpen with Franzu\u00e1 and Vizca\u00edno<\/h2>\n\n\nSAN PEDRO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 The Estrellas Orientales have announced the re-signing of experienced relievers Ger\u00f3nimo Franz\u00faa and Raffi Vizca\u00edno, according to an official statement from the team.\n\nBoth pitchers became free agents on February 15th, due to the labor agreement between the National Federation of Professional Baseball Players (FENAPEPRO) and the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League. This agreement stipulated that for a month, they could only negotiate with the Estrellas, and subsequently, from March 15th, with any other team in the league.\n\nThe previous contracts of Franz\u00faa and Vizca\u00edno had expired, in accordance with what was established in the agreement between FENAPEPRO and the league.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relievers&#8217; Trajectory with the Stars<\/h2>\n\n\nGer\u00f3nimo Franz\u00faa has accumulated four seasons as a pitcher for the Estrellas, showing a record of 6-2 in wins and losses, over 47 appearances 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 getting a decision. He faced a total of 25 batters.\n\nHis debut with the Stars occurred in the 2019-2020 season.\n\nVizca\u00edno also debuted with the Estrellas in the same season, adding 6 campaigns with the team. His record is 3-3, with an ERA of 3.68 and a save in 79 games. In the last tournament, he had a record of 1-1, with an ERA of 3.29 in 13.2 innings, facing 53 batters.\n\nBoth Franzu\u00e1 and Vizca\u00edno work as middle relievers, with Franzu\u00e1 frequently used against left-handed hitters.\n\nThese are the first restricted free agents to secure their continuity with the Stars for next season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estrellas Orientales Reforce Their Bullpen with Franzu\u00e1 and Vizca\u00edno SAN PEDRO DE MACOR\u00cdS \u2013 The Estrellas Orientales have announced the re-signing of experienced relievers Ger\u00f3nimo Franz\u00faa and Raffi Vizca\u00edno, according to an official statement from the team. Both pitchers became free agents on February 15th, due to the labor agreement between the National Federation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[11888,6014,7295,11889],"class_list":{"0":"post-109283","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\/109283","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=109283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}