{"id":84052,"date":"2025-11-21T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chosen-reinforces-rotation-travis-lakins-arrives-at-the-scarlet-mound\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:18:55","slug":"chosen-reinforces-rotation-travis-lakins-arrives-at-the-scarlet-mound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chosen-reinforces-rotation-travis-lakins-arrives-at-the-scarlet-mound\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen Reinforces Rotation: Travis Lakins Arrives at the Scarlet Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leones del Escogido bolster their rotation with Travis Lakins<\/h2>\n\nThe Leones del Escogido have announced the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Travis Lakins to strengthen their starting rotation. The news was confirmed by the Baseball Operations Management, led by general manager Carlos Pe\u00f1a.\n\nLakins, 31, arrives after a standout performance in the 2024-25 season with the Criollos de Caguas in the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League (Puerto Rico). There, he recorded a 3-2 record, an ERA of 2.10, and a WHIP of 1.07, accumulating 34 strikeouts in 34.1 innings.\n\nDuring the summer, Lakins debuted in the Mexican Baseball League with the Algodoneros de Uni\u00f3n Laguna, where he obtained a record of 9-3, with 75 strikeouts in 95.1 innings, a shutout and an ERA of 4.72.\n\nThe Lions&#8217; new import also has experience in the Major Leagues, having pitched between 2019 and 2022 with the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. In 68 appearances, he accumulated 87.1 innings, with an ERA of 4.84 and 75 strikeouts.\n\nHis repertoire includes a four-seam fastball that reaches 93 mph, an 84 mph slider, an 85 mph changeup, an 81 mph curveball, and a 92 mph sinker.\n\nLakins will take the place on the reinforcement roster of the Panamanian infielder Jonathan Ara\u00faz, whose contract with the scarlet team recently ended.\n\n<h2>Escogido&#8217;s Rotation for the Weekend<\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday (doubleheader vs. Gigantes del Cibao, Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium, 4:00 p. m.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First game: Travis Lakins<\/li><li>Second game: Johnny Cueto<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday (vs. Toros del Este, Francisco A. Micheli Stadium, 7:30 p.m.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nLael Lockhart\n\n<strong>Sunday (vs. \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, Quisqueya Stadium, 4:00 p.m.)<\/strong>\n\nGrant Gavin","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leones del Escogido bolster their rotation with Travis Lakins The Leones del Escogido have announced the incorporation of right-handed pitcher Travis Lakins to strengthen their starting rotation. The news was confirmed by the Baseball Operations Management, led by general manager Carlos Pe\u00f1a. Lakins, 31, arrives after a standout performance in the 2024-25 season with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,1784,888,10503],"class_list":{"0":"post-84052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-launcher","10":"tag-lions","11":"tag-travis-lakins"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052","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=84052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}