On the eve of the last regular season game day in the Italian Baseball League T&A San Marino has signed a new pitcher. 35-year-old Venezuelan right-hander Fernando Nieve is joining the staff of manager Marco Nanni. Between 2006 and 2010 the appeared in 99 games in Major League Baseball, pitching to an ERA of 4.61 for the Houston Astros and New York Mets. This year he had been playing in Mexico, going 1-3 with an ERA of 2.25 in 31 games with 45 strikeouts and six walks in 32 innings.