{"id":30532,"date":"2025-09-01T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-left-hander-caleb-smith-for-winter-season\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:43:15","slug":"gigantes-del-cibao-sign-left-hander-caleb-smith-for-winter-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gigantes-del-cibao-sign-left-hander-caleb-smith-for-winter-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Gigantes del Cibao sign left-hander Caleb Smith for winter season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gigantes del Cibao Sign Caleb Smith for Next Season<\/h2>\n\n\nSan Francisco de Macor\u00eds &#8211; The Gigantes del Cibao have announced the incorporation of left-handed pitcher Caleb Smith as a reinforcement for the upcoming Dominican winter baseball season, which is scheduled to begin on October 15th.\n\nThe news was confirmed by the Chief Operating Officer, Lic. Alfredo Acebal Rizek, who highlighted the importance of the hiring for the team.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe have been consistently working hard on building a good team for next season and the hiring of Caleb Smith is part of the plan, to have a left-handed starter who can be available early on\u201d<\/p><cite>Alfredo Acebal Rizek<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSmith, a 34-year-old American, has a six-season career in the Major Leagues and recently participated in the Mexican baseball league.\n\nThe executive also added:\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe idea is to have a good rotation of starters, which includes one or two left-handers, so we will continue looking for the necessary pieces to join the core of natives who have also been there since day one to compete\u201d<\/p><cite>Alfredo Acebal Rizek<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the Mexican league, Smith participated in 20 games with the Dorados de Chihuahua during the 2025 season, starting in 18 of them and relieving in two.\n\nIn 93.0 innings pitched, he allowed 87 hits, conceded 60 walks, and struck out 95 batters, recording a WHIP of 1.58.\n\nCaleb Smith joins Reid Birlingmair, Scott Engler, and Daniel Mengden as the reinforcements announced by the Gigantes del Cibao for the upcoming season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gigantes del Cibao Sign Caleb Smith for Next Season San Francisco de Macor\u00eds &#8211; The Gigantes del Cibao have announced the incorporation of left-handed pitcher Caleb Smith as a reinforcement for the upcoming Dominican winter baseball season, which is scheduled to begin on October 15th. The news was confirmed by the Chief Operating Officer, Lic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,8155,6684,6507],"class_list":{"0":"post-30532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-caleb-smith","10":"tag-cibao-giants","11":"tag-left-handed"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532","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=30532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}