Andrés Santiago
Andrés Manuel Santiago is a professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. Santiago sign for a 2.4 million dolar contract with the Los Angeles dodgers in 2007.
He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 16th round of the 2007 MLB draft. He spent his first seasons in the rookie leagues, playing in the Gulf Coast League and later the Arizona League. In 2011, he was promoted to the California League with Rancho Cucamonga Quakes next year Santiago was promoted to the AA Chattanooga Lookouts in.
He played for the Puerto Rican National Team in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Santiago played in 2 Pan American Games, 1 World Cup, 5 Caribbean Series for Puerto Rico,,,,, Premier12
. Santiago pitched a no-hitter for the Lookouts against the Tennessee Smokies on August 28, 2014 in the Southern League.
Santiago beat Italy in 2015 Premier12 tournament in Taiwan tossing 7 scoreless innings striking out 6 to give Puerto Rico the first win of the tournament. Santiago later pitch 6 2/3 of work against Chinese Taipei giving up just 1 solo shot for the only run of his outing while striking 5 batters to help Puerto Rico advance to the quarterfinals.
Santiago signed a minor league deal with the Chicago Cubs on January 10, 2015. He was assigned to AA Tennessee and a month later was called up to AAA where he went 0–0 with 0.00 ERA in 5.1 innings of work as a reliever.
