Gigantes del Cibao
| Gigantes del Cibao | |
|---|---|
| League | Dominican Winter League |
| Location | San Francisco de Macorís |
| Ballpark | Estadio Julian Javier |
| Year founded | 1996 |
The Gigantes del Cibao (English: Giants of the Cibao) are a baseball team that plays in the Dominican Winter League. The Team was founded in 1996 as Gigantes del Noroeste then with a change of ownership the name was changed several times, being called Pollos del Cibao, Pollos Nacionales and Pollos Baseball Club.
The team's best performances have been during the 2003–04, 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons in which it was the runner-up of the championship series.
At the start of the professional Dominican Republic baseball season in 1995, the League of Professional Baseball reported that for the 1996 season it planned to create another franchise to expand the league, to that date there were only five teams: Tigres del Licey, Aguilas Cibaeñas, Leones del Escogido, Estrellas Orientales and Toros del Este.
Thus, a group led by former baseball major league player Julián Javier, who had arranged for the appointment or purchase of the franchise, accompanied by José Aníbal García, Ysócrates Peña, Abraham Abukarma who formed a committee, this committee met with Siquió NG de la Rosa getting the necessary partners to invest in the project.
The company was established as Nordeste Baseball Club, which has 34 founding members from the different provinces of the Cibao region. Among the members are: Carlos Eliseo Negrin, Celso Ventura, Miguel Angel Almanzar, Rafael Almanzar, José Adolfo Herrera and others.
In 1996, they were granted permission to operate and immediately began to put the old Estadio Julian Javier in conditions for baseball.
The first three years of operation of the team were in the hands of the Dominican Baseball League who held the guidance and advice of the steps to be followed for the proper functioning of the newly established team.
In 1999, due to a disastrous season in which the team broke the record for fewest games won, 9–51, controlling shareholders decided to relist the team and that is how it was handed to Julio Hazim, who immediately renamed the team as Pollos del Cibao, staying for two years as head of the administration team. It was in the first season of the new ownership when Hazim fixed part of the stands, stadium roof and drainage. That same year there was a new sale, this time to former big leaguer Stanley Javier, who decided to return to the previous name, but now it was no longer the Gigantes of nordeste (Giants of Northeast) but: Gigantes del Cibao. From 2004–2012, the team was under the direction of the Genao family. Since 2013, the team went on to be managed by the Rizek Family.
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