{"id":92683,"date":"2025-12-01T20:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chosen-removes-cintron-ramon-santiago-assumes-interim-direction\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:29:50","slug":"chosen-removes-cintron-ramon-santiago-assumes-interim-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chosen-removes-cintron-ramon-santiago-assumes-interim-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen Removes Cintr\u00f3n: Ram\u00f3n Santiago Assumes Interim Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chosen Shakes Up Its Technical Body: Cintr\u00f3n and Cepeda Out<\/h2>\n\n\nSanto Domingo \u2013 The Leones del Escogido announced this Monday important changes in their coaching staff, marking a turn in the team&#8217;s strategy after their recent defeat against the Estrellas Orientales.\n\nThe organization has decided to dispense with the services of leader Alex Cintr\u00f3n and pitching coach Wellington Cepeda, in a move that seeks to revitalize the team&#8217;s performance this season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have concluded our working relationship with Cintr\u00f3n and Cepeda with the utmost respect. We are infinitely grateful for their efforts and professionalism during their time with us.<\/p><cite>Carlos Pe\u00f1a, General Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCarlos Pe\u00f1a, general manager of the scarlet team, was in charge of communicating the news, expressing the organization&#8217;s gratitude to the outgoing technicians.\n\nRam\u00f3n Santiago, former Major League player with experience in LIDOM and MLB, has been appointed as interim manager.\n\nThe team currently has a record of 13-18, ranking fifth, tied with the Tigres del Licey.\n\nPe\u00f1a explained that the decision is based on the need to implement a new approach and leadership within the team.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The reason behind this change is the desire to give the team a new approach and a new leadership voice. We have appointed Santiago as interim manager, who has vast experience both as a Lidom player and in the Major Leagues, not only on the field, but also as an instructor.<\/p><cite>Carlos Pe\u00f1a, General Manager<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHatuey Mendoza will assume the pitching coordination, contributing his experience from the Arizona Diamondbacks&#8217; minor league system and his time with the Tigres del Licey.\n\nRam\u00f3n Santiago, 46 years old, managed the Leones de Yucat\u00e1n in the Mexican Baseball League this summer and was a coach in the Major Leagues with the Detroit Tigers (2018-2022). He was also recently part of the Escogido coaching staff as a bench coach in the 2021-22 season.\n\nThe team also reported the departure of Eduardo N\u00fa\u00f1ez (quality control coach), V\u00edctor Ramos (bullpen coach), and Hiram Bocachica (first base coach).\n\nThe Lions will travel this Tuesday to Santiago to face the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at 7:30 p.m. at the Cibao Stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chosen Shakes Up Its Technical Body: Cintr\u00f3n and Cepeda Out Santo Domingo \u2013 The Leones del Escogido announced this Monday important changes in their coaching staff, marking a turn in the team&#8217;s strategy after their recent defeat against the Estrellas Orientales. The organization has decided to dispense with the services of leader Alex Cintr\u00f3n and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[10918,3875,1279,10919],"class_list":{"0":"post-92683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-alex-cintron","9":"tag-leones-del-escogido","10":"tag-lidom","11":"tag-ramon-santiago"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92683","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=92683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}