{"id":114391,"date":"2026-03-18T04:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/toros-del-este-gets-reinforcements-valdez-fernandez-lugo-severino-and-rodriguez-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T04:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:58:52","slug":"toros-del-este-gets-reinforcements-valdez-fernandez-lugo-severino-and-rodriguez-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/toros-del-este-gets-reinforcements-valdez-fernandez-lugo-severino-and-rodriguez-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toros del Este gets reinforcements: Valdez, Fern\u00e1ndez, Lugo, Severino, and Rodr\u00edguez"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Toros del Este Bolsters Roster with Key Additions for the Upcoming Season<\/h2>\n\nLa Romana, Dominican Republic \u2013 Los Toros del Este have announced the incorporation of several key players to strengthen their roster for the upcoming season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). Among the new acquisitions are pitchers, a third baseman, and catchers, all with the aim of enhancing the team&#8217;s performance.\n\nThe official announcement reveals the arrival of pitchers Phillips Valdez and Juli\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez, third baseman Dawell Lugo, and catchers Pedro Severino and Julio E. Rodr\u00edguez.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>These additions bring solidity in key areas such as catching, pitching, and the infield, as well as adding postseason experience and championships to the team.<\/p><cite>Jes\u00fas Mej\u00eda, General Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPhillips Valdez joins the team after outstanding performances as a reliever, establishing himself as an important arm in the league. For his part, Juli\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez, with experience in the Major Leagues, will strengthen the pitching staff with his professional career.\n\nDawell Lugo, recognized for his defense and experience in LIDOM, will contribute both in defense and offense to the infield. The catching position will also be reinforced with the arrival of Pedro Severino, a veteran of Major Leagues and Gold Glove winner, along with Julio E. Rodr\u00edguez, who will provide defensive consistency.\n\nThese new additions are in addition to the retentions previously announced by the organization, reaffirming the commitment of the Toros del Este to build a competitive team for the next season.\n\nWith these additions, the Romanense franchise seeks to consolidate a balanced structure between experience and talent, with the goal of competing at the highest level in Dominican winter baseball.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toros del Este Bolsters Roster with Key Additions for the Upcoming Season La Romana, Dominican Republic \u2013 Los Toros del Este have announced the incorporation of several key players to strengthen their roster for the upcoming season of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). Among the new acquisitions are pitchers, a third baseman, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1279,10312,5271],"class_list":{"0":"post-114391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-lidom","10":"tag-reinforcements","11":"tag-toros-del-este"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114391","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=114391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}