{"id":86455,"date":"2025-11-24T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jose-leger-to-the-white-sox-another-dominican-in-the-mlb-coaching-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:46:22","slug":"jose-leger-to-the-white-sox-another-dominican-in-the-mlb-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/jose-leger-to-the-white-sox-another-dominican-in-the-mlb-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Leger to the White Sox: Another Dominican in the MLB coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jos\u00e9 Leger Dur\u00e1n Joins the Chicago White Sox<\/h2>\n\nDominican baseball continues to reap success in the Major Leagues. Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Leger Dur\u00e1n, current manager of the Gigantes del Cibao in the Dominican League, has been hired as the first base coach of the Chicago White Sox.\n\nThe news was confirmed by the strategist himself this Monday, marking another milestone in his career.\n\nThe organization of the Gigantes del Cibao was quick to congratulate their manager through their social media, highlighting the pride it represents for the team.\n\nLeger becomes the second Dominican to assume the role of first base coach this offseason, following in the footsteps of Gilbert G\u00f3mez, who was named to the same position with the New York Mets.\n\n<h2>Dominicans stand out in MLB technical bodies<\/h2>\n\nThe appointment of Leger adds to the growing list of Dominican technicians who have left their mark on MLB.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Manny Acta (bench coach, Mariners)<\/li><li>Luis Rojas (third base coach, Yankees)<\/li><li>Rodney Linares (third base coach, Rays)<\/li><li>Carlos Febles (third base coach, Blue Jays)<\/li><li>Jos\u00e9 Javier (first base coach, Cubs)<\/li><li>Julio Borb\u00f3n (first base coach, Brewers)<\/li><li>Pedro Guerrero (hitting coach, Marlins)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jos\u00e9 Leger&#8217;s Career<\/h2>\n\n\nBorn in Santo Domingo, Leger, 43, had a college career at Georgia College and State University. He signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Twins and played in the minor leagues in 2005 and 2006 as a catcher and third baseman.\n\nHis experience in player development began in 2009 as a batting coach in the Dominican Summer League. He managed in the DSL with the Mets in 2010, and continued his rise in rookie and Class A teams between 2012 and 2017.\n\nBetween 2021 and 2024, he managed in AA within the Texas Rangers system. In the Dominican League, in addition to the Gigantes del Cibao, he has been a manager for Escogido and \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, and has held coaching roles with Estrellas Orientales and Tigres del Licey.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gigantes del Cibao on the Rise<\/h2>\n\n\nUnder Leger&#8217;s direction, the Giants have shown remarkable growth, arriving at the day with an 11-13 record, fueled by a streak of three consecutive victories and five wins in their last ten games, positioning them in the Round Robin qualification zone.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Leger Dur\u00e1n Joins the Chicago White Sox Dominican baseball continues to reap success in the Major Leagues. Jos\u00e9 Joaqu\u00edn Leger Dur\u00e1n, current manager of the Gigantes del Cibao in the Dominican League, has been hired as the first base coach of the Chicago White Sox. The news was confirmed by the strategist himself this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[718,10100,344,1175],"class_list":{"0":"post-86455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-coach","9":"tag-dominican-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-white-sox"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86455","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=86455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}