{"id":97815,"date":"2025-12-24T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chosen-is-reinforced-pena-celebrates-weigel-yan-and-mores-selection-in-the-draft\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T23:27:04","slug":"chosen-is-reinforced-pena-celebrates-weigel-yan-and-mores-selection-in-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chosen-is-reinforced-pena-celebrates-weigel-yan-and-mores-selection-in-the-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen is reinforced: Pe\u00f1a celebrates Weigel, Yan and more’s selection in the Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 Carlos Pe\u00f1a, general manager of the Leones del Escogido, expressed his satisfaction after the Re-entry Draft of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). Pe\u00f1a believes that the new additions strengthen the team in its quest to revalidate the title obtained.\n\nThe scarlet team added Patrick Weigel and Jefry Yan as relievers, Radham\u00e9s Liz as a starter, Raimel Tapia in the outfield, Jorge Mateo in the infield, and Michael de la Cruz as a catcher.\n\n

“Weigel is a man who closes the door and is very aggressive in the zone. We love Yan’s energy, while Liz gives us stability as a power pitcher, with numbers that speak for themselves. Tapia is a tremendous hitter who makes a difference on any team,”<\/p>Carlos Pe\u00f1a<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPe\u00f1a also highlighted Mateo’s return to the team.\n\n

\u201cMateo is a great player. When we made the change in the regular season, it was a managerial decision seeking to restructure the team. Now he returns home and that talent cannot be overlooked. De la Cruz gives us depth in the receiving position and has good experience\u201d,<\/p>Carlos Pe\u00f1a<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nDuring the regular season, Patrick Weigel was one of the most outstanding relievers, with an ERA of 1.19, a WHIP of 0.66, 34 strikeouts in 30.1 innings, four saves, and a batting average against of .144. In his last 20 relief appearances, he only allowed one earned run in 28.2 innings (0.31 ERA).\n\nJefry Yan, for his part, recorded an effectiveness of 3.13 in 23.0 innings, with 28 strikeouts, a WHIP of 0.96 and a batting average against of .169.\n\nRadham\u00e9s Liz had six appearances, with an ERA of 2.95 in 21.1 innings, 21 strikeouts, and a batting average of .205 for his opponents.\n\nIn the offensive, Raimel Tapia led the league with 73 hits, being the third time a player reached 70 or more hits in a 50-game season. His offensive line was .356\/.398\/.459, with two home runs, 24 RBIs, 12 doubles and 30 runs scored.\n\nJorge Mateo hit a home run, three doubles, drove in 10 runs, scored 15 and stole nine bases in 33 games. With the Estrellas Orientales he batted .298 in 15 games, with a .794 OPS.\n\nMichael de la Cruz, a switch hitter, participated in 28 games, hit five doubles and a triple, drove in nine runs, and recorded a .648 OPS. Defensively, he retired seven of 17 runners attempting to steal (41%). In his 10 seasons in LIDOM, he has caught 31% of runners.\n\nIn the draft process, the Lions’ operations table was also made up of Jos\u00e9 Miguel Bonetti, a member of the Board of Directors; \u00c1ngel \u201cAroboy\u201d Santana, special assistant to the general manager; and Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Fr\u00edas, sports vice president.\n\nThe Leones del Escogido will start the Round Robin on Saturday, December 27, at 5:00 in the afternoon, against the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as at the Cibao Stadium.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 Carlos Pe\u00f1a, general manager of the Leones del Escogido, expressed his satisfaction after the Re-entry Draft of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). Pe\u00f1a believes that the new additions strengthen the team in its quest to revalidate the title obtained. The scarlet team added Patrick Weigel and Jefry Yan as relievers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[392,3875,1279,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-97815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-draft","9":"tag-leones-del-escogido","10":"tag-lidom","11":"tag-players"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97815","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=97815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}