{"id":469429,"date":"2026-02-15T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469429\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:58:07","slug":"mariners-add-9-more-international-signings-to-their-minor-league-rosters-kiro-7-news-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469429\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners add 9 more international signings to their minor league rosters \u2013 KIRO 7 News Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Mariners announced that they had signed nine additional international players, bringing their total to 14 signed since January.<\/p>\n

The team announced the signing through a press release on Friday as part of Major League Baseball\u2019s (MLB) international signing period.<\/p>\n

According to CBS Sports<\/a>, 30% of MLB players signed as international amateur free agents through the International Player Portal. <\/p>\n

Seven of the players signed are from Venezuela, with two being from Mexico. <\/p>\n

Seattle Mariners Senior Director of International Scouting Frankie Thon Jr. said, \u201cWe\u2019re glad to be adding this level of talent to our minor league system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three were right-handed pitchers, two catchers and two players capable of playing either infield or outfield positions: <\/p>\n

Daniel Alana, C, VenezuelaSantiago Pereira, C, VenezuelaEdgardo Toro, INF\/OF, VenezuelaFabian Gonzalez, INF\/OF, VenezuelaCristian Alvarado, RHP, MexicoGerman Arvayo, RHP, MexicoGabriel Hidalgo, RHP, VenezuelaCarlos Martinez, RHP, VenezuelaAdan Vallenilla, RHP, Venezuela<\/p>\n

Five additional players from the Dominican Republic in January who play outfield with one infielder.<\/p>\n

The International sign period runs from Jan. 15 to Dec. 15.<\/p>\n

\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Mariners announced that they had signed nine additional international players, bringing their total to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-469429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}