{"id":188650,"date":"2022-10-31T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=188650"},"modified":"2022-10-31T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:00:32","slug":"marlins-ace-sandy-alcantara-wishes-he-could-turn-back-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/10\/31\/marlins-ace-sandy-alcantara-wishes-he-could-turn-back-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara wishes he could turn back time."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Sandy-Alcantara-Marlins-Academy-DR-MLB-e1667217566926.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188702\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Miami Marlins inaugurated on Friday, 28 October 2022 a brand new baseball academy, a facility that is double the size of their old academy in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marlins&#8217; ace pitcher Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara participated in the inauguration last week and when touring the state-of-the-art player development complex, he commented he wished he could turn back time, the MLB reports. Dominican-born Alc\u00e1ntara is a Cy Young Award candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new facility is a college-style campus and spring training site with baseball and residential facilities to help the international signees holistically develop as ballplayers and people. It features three Major League-size playing fields, an agility field, four covered batting cage tunnels and a set of six pitching mounds, a two-story athletic and administration building, and a separate residential complex. As reported, it was completed on time in 16 months and on budget with a US$15 million investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Seeing that kind of academy, big, so nice and beautiful, it&#8217;s something that I didn&#8217;t have before when I signed, but I think it&#8217;s going to be good for those players to feel more comfortable and get more privacy,&#8221; said Alcantara, who first signed with St. Louis in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Marlins-Academy-in-DR-MLB-e1667217620960.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188704\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Also present for the inauguration were chairman and principal owner of the Miami Marlins Bruce Sherman, Marlins&#8217;s chief operating officer Caroline O&#8217;Connor, senior director of international operations Adrian Lorenzo and Dominican Marlins players Edward Cabrera, Bryan De La Cruz, Jerar Encarnacion, and top prospect Eury P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/marlins-launch-new-baseball-academy-in-dominican-republic\">MLB <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 October 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Marlins inaugurated on Friday, 28 October 2022 a brand new baseball academy, a facility that is double the size of their old academy in the Dominican Republic. Marlins&#8217; ace pitcher Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara participated in the inauguration last week and when touring the state-of-the-art player development complex, he commented he wished he could turn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2022\/10\/31\/marlins-ace-sandy-alcantara-wishes-he-could-turn-back-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188709,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188650\/revisions\/188709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}