{"id":100534,"date":"2026-01-03T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominicans-dominate-postseason-in-venezuela-mexico-and-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:18:39","slug":"dominicans-dominate-postseason-in-venezuela-mexico-and-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominicans-dominate-postseason-in-venezuela-mexico-and-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans Dominate Postseason in Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominicans Shine in Caribbean Postseasons<\/h2>\n\n\nA total of 32 Dominican players are competing in the postseason of the winter leagues of Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This decisive stage is the path to the 2026 Caribbean Series, which will be held in Jalisco, Mexico.\n\nWith the beginning of January, 17 teams secured their qualification to the final rounds in these circuits, highlighting the notable presence of Dominican players. The Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP) concentrates the largest number of Dominican players, with 22. Following are the Mexican Pacific League, with six, and the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League of Puerto Rico, with four.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Presence in Venezuela<\/h2>\n\n\nIn Venezuela, Dominicans are distributed across several teams, including Navegantes del Magallanes, Cardenales de Lara, \u00c1guilas del Zulia, Caribes de Anzo\u00e1tegui, and Bravos de Margarita. These players contribute both in pitching and in key positions on the field.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Magallanes Navigators:<\/strong> F\u00e9lix Cepeda, Waddison Charles, Oliver Ortega, Jes\u00fas Reyes and Esmil Rogers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cardenales de Lara:<\/strong> H\u00e9ctor P\u00e9rez, Listher Sosa, C\u00e9sar Valdez, Juan Zapata and Alejandro Mej\u00eda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00c1guilas del Zulia:<\/strong> Delvis Alegre, Ronaldo Alesandro, Wendolyn Bautista and Isa\u00edas Tejeda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caribes de Anzo\u00e1tegui:<\/strong> Harold Gonz\u00e1lez, Francis Peguero, Luis Reyes and Yoelvin Silver.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bravos de Margarita:<\/strong> Claudio Custodio, \u00c1ngel Rond\u00f3n and Juan Santana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<h2>Dominican Participation in Mexico and Puerto Rico<\/h2>\n\nIn the Mexican Pacific League, Dominicans also play an important role. In the \u00c1guilas de Mexicali, Raudy Read and Estevan Florial stand out. On the other hand, Jonathan Aro, Raffy Vizca\u00edno, Domingo Leyba and Andretty Cordero play with the Naranjeros de Hermosillo.\n\nIn Puerto Rico, Oddy N\u00fa\u00f1ez reinforces the Cangrejeros de Santurce. Johnny Vargas, Emanuel Valdez, and Willy V\u00e1squez are part of the Criollos de Caguas roster, while Eddy Reynoso and Eduardo Rivera play for the Gigantes de Carolina.\n\nThe strong Dominican presence in these postseasons underscores the importance of the country in Caribbean winter baseball, a few weeks before the start of the most important regional event.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans Shine in Caribbean Postseasons A total of 32 Dominican players are competing in the postseason of the winter leagues of Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This decisive stage is the path to the 2026 Caribbean Series, which will be held in Jalisco, Mexico. With the beginning of January, 17 teams secured their qualification to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,2688,1384,11202],"class_list":{"0":"post-100534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-caribbean-series","10":"tag-dominicans","11":"tag-winter-league"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534","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=100534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}