{"id":4814,"date":"2016-04-01T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T21:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:16:10","slug":"freshman-infielder-santiago-espinal-providing-offensive-and-defensive-punch-for-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/freshman-infielder-santiago-espinal-providing-offensive-and-defensive-punch-for-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman Infielder Providing Offensive And Defensive Punch For Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4817\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4817\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Espinal-Headshot2-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Espinal.\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Espinal-Headshot2-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Espinal-Headshot2-768x888.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Espinal-Headshot2-886x1024.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Espinal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santiago Espinal is having a strong freshman campaign for the Miami Dade College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcathletics.com\/sports\/bsb\/index\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">baseball team<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Espinal, an infielder, has a .431 batting average, with 53 hits, 28 runs and eight stolen bases. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the defensive side, he leads the team with 10 double plays, and boasts a \u00a0sterling fielding percentage of .924. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s a team player,\u201d said Miami Dade College head baseball coach, Danny Price. \u201cWhat you see is what you get. Everyday he works very hard at what he does. He has that ability to just keep going. He\u2019s very good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Espinal\u2019s skills and passion for the game can be traced back to Santiago, Dominican Republic where he was born and raised. Baseball is king there. It is a staple of the culture. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His experience was no different. Espinal was capable of playing every position on the baseball diamond when he was five-years-old. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said his grandfather, also named Santiago Espinal, served as his biggest motivation growing up. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe always wanted me to play baseball,\u201d Espinal said. \u201cHe taught me how to catch, how to play the game and he would always go to my games when I was little.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2004, Espinal\u2019s grandfather passed away. In his honor, Espinal vowed to make it to the Major Leagues someday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four years after his grandfather\u2019s death, when Espinal was 12, he moved to the United States with his family to pursue the American Dream. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first the family lived in Pembroke Pines for a short period before moving to Orlando. In Orlando, Espinal attended Lyman High School where he played baseball for four years. He failed to graduate in Orlando because he struggled with English. In 2014, he moved to New York and graduated from Penn Foster High School. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A year later he came back to Florida and attended Seminole State College in Orlando, to play baseball, but he struggled academically and never played a game for the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the summer of 2015, he played in the Florida League in Orlando and was the league\u2019s MVP, which caught the eye of the coaching staff at MDC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This past July, they offered him a full scholarship to attend the College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe coaching staff and my teammates have been good to me,\u201d Espinal said. \u201cI\u2019m having a great year and I thank everyone who\u2019s been supporting me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Espinal is having a strong freshman campaign for the Miami Dade College baseball team. Espinal, an infielder, has a .431 batting average, with 53 hits, 28 runs and eight stolen bases. 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