{"id":100678,"date":"2026-01-04T04:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominicans-dominate-caribbean-postseason-heading-to-2026-caribbean-series\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:56:43","slug":"dominicans-dominate-caribbean-postseason-heading-to-2026-caribbean-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominicans-dominate-caribbean-postseason-heading-to-2026-caribbean-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans Dominate Caribbean Postseason: Heading to 2026 Caribbean Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dominicans Shine in Caribbean Postseasons on the Road to the 2026 Caribbean Series<\/h2>\n\nA total of 32 Dominican players are actively participating in the postseason of the winter leagues of Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This decisive stage is the prelude 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 of these circuits. The Dominican presence is notable, especially in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP), where the largest number of Dominican players is concentrated, with 22. It is followed by the Mexican Pacific League, with six, and the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League of Puerto Rico, with four.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prominent Dominicans in Venezuela<\/h3>\n\n\nIn Venezuela, Dominican players are distributed among the 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>Navegantes del Magallanes:<\/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\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dominican Presence in Mexico and Puerto Rico<\/h3>\n\n\nIn the Mexican Pacific League, Dominicans also play an important role.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u00c1guilas de Mexicali:<\/strong> Raudy Read and Estevan Florial.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naranjeros de Hermosillo:<\/strong> Jonathan Aro, Raffy Vizca\u00edno, Domingo Leyba and Andretty Cordero.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico, the Dominican representation is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cangrejeros de Santurce:<\/strong> Oddy N\u00fa\u00f1ez.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criollos de Caguas:<\/strong> Johnny Vargas, Emanuel Valdez and Willy V\u00e1squez.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gigantes de Carolina:<\/strong> Eddy Reynoso and Eduardo Rivera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe strong Dominican presence in these postseasons underscores the country&#8217;s prominence in Caribbean winter baseball, just weeks before the start of the most important regional event.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans Shine in Caribbean Postseasons on the Road to the 2026 Caribbean Series A total of 32 Dominican players are actively participating in the postseason of the winter leagues of Venezuela, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This decisive stage is the prelude to the 2026 Caribbean Series, which will be held in Jalisco, Mexico. With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2688,1271,604,11164],"class_list":{"0":"post-100678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-caribbean-series","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-players","11":"tag-winter-baseball"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100678","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=100678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}