{"id":25999,"date":"2025-08-18T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-daniel-mengden-imported-reinforcement-for-the-mound\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:01:51","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-sign-daniel-mengden-imported-reinforcement-for-the-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-daniel-mengden-imported-reinforcement-for-the-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao Sign Daniel Mengden: Imported Reinforcement for the Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"San Francisco de Macor\u00eds \u2013 The Gigantes del Cibao announce the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Daniel Mengden as their second imported player for the upcoming season, which will begin on October 15 in the Dominican Republic.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experience and Trajectory<\/h2>\n\n\nDaniel Mengden, a seasoned 32-year-old pitcher, boasts a distinguished career in professional baseball.\n\nThe player has six seasons of experience in the Major Leagues, from 2016 to 2020 with the Oakland Athletics and in 2022 with the Kansas City Royals.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cDaniel is a great pitcher, with a lot of experience in different levels of the world, including the Majors, China and Mexico, we are convinced that he can be of great help to us in the next season.\u201d<\/p><cite>Lic. Alfredo Acebal Rizek, President of Operations<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMengden has extended his career internationally, participating in leagues in South Korea, Taiwan, and Mexico.\n\nIn his time in the Major Leagues, Mengden accumulated more than 300 innings pitched, achieving 17 victories and surpassing 230 strikeouts.\n\nIn the 2023 season with the Tecos de Dos Laredos, Mengden had an 8-5 record with an ERA of 4.00 in 17 starts.\n\nIn that season, he pitched 90 innings, allowing 96 hits, striking out 67 batters and conceding 33 walks, with a WHIP of 1.43.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds \u2013 The Gigantes del Cibao announce the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Daniel Mengden as their second imported player for the upcoming season, which will begin on October 15 in the Dominican Republic. Experience and Trajectory Daniel Mengden, a seasoned 32-year-old pitcher, boasts a distinguished career in professional baseball. The player has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,6684,7453,1784],"class_list":{"0":"post-25999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cibao-giants","10":"tag-daniel-mengden","11":"tag-launcher"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25999","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=25999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}