Lisnerkin Lantigua named Florida State League Pitcher of the Week

The Florida State League and Minor League Baseball have announced that right-handed pitcher Lisnerkin Lantigua has been named the Player of the Week for June 9th through the 14th.

Before last week, Lisnerkin Lantigua was pitching once a week or once per series if you prefer to look at it that way. All of his outings had been multi-inning appearances out of the bullpen except one. Back on April 25th he made a start and pitched in 3.0 innings. For the most part, Lantigua had struggled this season. When May ended he had pitched in eight games and his ERA was 5.24 on the season and he had 18 walks with 20 strikeouts in 22.1 innings pitched.

June got out to a good start, though, as he fired off 2.0 perfect innings against Dunedin on June 4th. He returned to the mound on the 9th to open up the series against Jupiter down in Daytona. The Tortugas right-hander came out of the bullpen and allowed just one hit, walked no one, and struck out five batters in his 3.2 innings of relief. He was charged with an unearned run in the game.

Four days later he was back on the mound against the Hammerheads. It was the first time all season he’d faced the same team twice in the same series, but it was also the 4th time he was going to be facing Jupiter on the year. No big deal at all for Lantigua as he fired off 2.1 perfect innings of relief with two strikeouts. He also picked up his first save of the year in the outing as he continued his strong month. Those two outings gave him 6.0 innings of 1-hit, 1-unearned run baseball with no walks, no hit batters, and seven strikeouts for the week.

With his 8.0 innings of 0.00 ERA out of the bullpen he’s lowered his ERA on the year to 3.86. After walking a bunch of hitters in the first two months of the season he’s faced 25 batters this month and hasn’t walked any of them.

You can see the career stats for Lisnerkin Lantigua right here.

Lisnerkin Lantigua was not the only Reds player on the farm to win the player of the week award this week. Hector Rodriguez also took home the honors for the Louisville Bats in the International League. You can read all about his performance here.

Here are the Cincinnati Reds players to win a Player of the Week Award in 2026: