Andrés Santiago

Andrés Manuel Santiago (born October 26, 1989) is a professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.

He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2007 MLB draft for a signing bonus of $1.2 million dollars. 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 (2012).

He played for the Puerto Rican National Team in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

Santiago played in 2 Pan American Games (2011 México and 2015 Toronto), a World Cup (2011 Panama), 5 Caribbean Series for Puerto Rico (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Premier12 (2015 Japan, Taiwan, Taipei) . 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 Taipe striking 5 batters to help Puerto Rico advance to the quarterfinals.

Andres won The Closer Of the Year award in Venezuelan Winter league for Caribes de Anzoategui and the championship in same year (2017).

Santiago has won 2 Caribbean Series Champions while participating in six. His victory over the Dominican Republic in 2018 help Puerto Rico win their Back2Back championship.