{"id":100394,"date":"2026-01-03T04:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pujols-reveals-dominican-world-baseball-classic-roster-almost-defined\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:58:43","slug":"pujols-reveals-dominican-world-baseball-classic-roster-almost-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/pujols-reveals-dominican-world-baseball-classic-roster-almost-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Pujols reveals: Dominican World Baseball Classic roster almost defined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pujols: Dominican Republic aims for the championship in the World Baseball Classic<\/h2>\n\n\nAlbert Pujols, a key figure in Dominican baseball, has made clear the ambition of the Dominican Republic for the next World Baseball Classic: to conquer the title for the second time.\n\nThe national team leader has been working closely with the general manager, Nelson Cruz, to put together a team of players that will honorably represent the country in the tournament. Pujols assured that the team is practically defined.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I believe that 95 percent of the roster is already set. The other 5 percent is because we have been scouting several guys who are playing in the winter league who also have that chance to represent and I believe that our country and the fans are going to feel happy and satisfied with the roster that Nelson Cruz and I and the group are forming.<\/p><cite>Albert Pujols<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPujols acknowledges the importance of building a competitive team, especially after the participation in 2023, where the Dominican team failed to advance beyond the first round.\n\nThe experienced player emphasized the team&#8217;s responsibility to seek the championship. He pointed out that, despite the previous results, commitment and discipline have always been present.\n\nDominican Republic will compete in Group D of the next World Baseball Classic, along with Venezuela, Netherlands, Israel, and Nicaragua. The last time the team advanced to the second phase of the tournament was in 2017.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pujols: Dominican Republic aims for the championship in the World Baseball Classic Albert Pujols, a key figure in Dominican baseball, has made clear the ambition of the Dominican Republic for the next World Baseball Classic: to conquer the title for the second time. The national team leader has been working closely with the general manager, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[9374,88,1271,5529],"class_list":{"0":"post-100394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-world-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}