{"id":241270,"date":"2025-09-10T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=241270"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:37:49","slug":"whats-with-wander-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/whats-with-wander-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s with Wander Franco?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wander-Franco-El-Caribe-1024x646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241302\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wander-Franco-El-Caribe-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wander-Franco-El-Caribe-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wander-Franco-El-Caribe-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wander-Franco-El-Caribe-1536x969.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wander-Franco-El-Caribe-2048x1292.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports are that former Tampa Rays star slugger Wander Franco was admitted to a mental health clinic. Police spokesman Diego Pesqueira said the request came from Franco\u2019s family. Recently, Franco had made headlines accusing a hotel in Sosua of having stolen RD$1 million that he had left in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wander Franco was having one of the most successful careers and leading the Tampa Rays when in 2024 he became involved in a sex scandal with a minor. The court finally levied him with a two-year suspended sentence, but his baseball career in MLB seems to be ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46207483\/family-rays-wander-franco-detained-admitted-clinic\">ESPN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/deportes\/wander-franco-crisis-salud-mental-policia\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.com.do\/deportes\/caso-wander-franco-familia-ejemplo\/\">CDN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/2025\/09\/06\/wander-franco-asegura-que-le-robaron-un-millon-de-pesos-en-hotel\/3236023\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/familiares-de-wander-franco-reciben-apoyo-policial-2006617\">Noticias SIN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 September 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are that former Tampa Rays star slugger Wander Franco was admitted to a mental health clinic. Police spokesman Diego Pesqueira said the request came from Franco\u2019s family. Recently, Franco had made headlines accusing a hotel in Sosua of having stolen RD$1 million that he had left in the room. Wander Franco was having one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/whats-with-wander-franco\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241270"}],"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=241270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241304,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241270\/revisions\/241304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}