26-years-old Venezuelan, Javier Avendano will fill Wes Edwards’s shoes and become team’s pitcher. Edwards was forced to leave “Solingen Alligators” and come back to the USA due to family reasons. New baseball player had already joined the team and even managed to play in the warm-up game against “Saarlouis Hornets”. Wayne Ough, the Head Coach, said: “Javier must find his rhythm and get acquainted with teammates. It is impossible to show the best innings after the long flight. But still, I am very happy he will play with us”.

“Alligators” will play three warm-up games before the first game of the season 2017. After that, team will play against “Dohren Wildfarmers”.

Javier Avendano had been playing in different teams of the minor league in “Toronto Blue Jays” baseball club from 2008 to 2014. After that, he played for the teams in Central America and then he was the part of the team of the Columbian league from Sincelejo (Columbia).