{"id":100947,"date":"2026-01-05T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/gian-guzman-lidom-manager-of-the-year-2025-26-aguilas-cibaenas-shine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:58:00","slug":"gian-guzman-lidom-manager-of-the-year-2025-26-aguilas-cibaenas-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/gian-guzman-lidom-manager-of-the-year-2025-26-aguilas-cibaenas-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gian Guzm\u00e1n, LIDOM Manager of the Year 2025-26: \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gian Guzm\u00e1n is LIDOM&#8217;s Manager of the Year<\/h2>\n\nThe Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) has announced Gian Guzm\u00e1n, from the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, as the Manager of the Year for the 2025-2026 championship. The election was the result of a vote by a jury composed of 69 sports communicators nationwide.\n\nGuzm\u00e1n led the voting with a total of 284 points, the result of 48 first-place votes, 13 second-place votes, and five third-place votes. He surpassed Jes\u00fas Mej\u00eda, general manager of the Toros del Este, who obtained 228 points, including 19 first-place votes.\n\nThe Eagles&#8217; executive received support in 66 ballots, solidifying his election thanks to the outstanding sports performance of his team, which dominated the regular season of the tournament dedicated to Mr. Juan Marichal and in option for the Banreservas Cup.\n\nIn the voting, Jaylon Pimentel, general manager of the Gigantes del Cibao, also participated, with 70 points, and Carlos Pe\u00f1a, from the Leones del Escogido, with 39 points.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Evaluation Criteria<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Executive of the Year award recognizes the most outstanding managerial and strategic work of the championship. Aspects such as team building, personnel management, administrative decision-making, and the results obtained during the season are valued.\n\n\n<p>The elections were held using a weighted valuation method that assigned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Five points to the first-place votes<\/li>\n<li>Three points to the second-place votes<\/li>\n<li>One point to the third-place votes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jury Composition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The jury was composed of a diverse group of communicators, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Five communicators with no ties to the teams<\/li>\n<li>Four members of the press offices<\/li>\n<li>Three Dominican communicators in the United States<\/li>\n<li>Three international reporters in the Dominican Republic<\/li>\n<li>One communicator from the provinces without professional teams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nThe provinces represented were La Altagracia, El Seibo, Mar\u00eda Trinidad S\u00e1nchez, Valverde, Puerto Plata, La Vega, Espaillat, Monse\u00f1or Nouel and Peravia, ensuring regional representation.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other announced awards<\/h2>\n\n\nLIDOM also announced that Erik Gonz\u00e1lez, from the Leones del Escogido, was recognized as Knight of the Year, while Alberto Rodr\u00edguez, from the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, obtained the Rookie of the Year award.\n\nThe individual awards announcement will continue on Monday, with the revelation of the Leader of the Year.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gian Guzm\u00e1n is LIDOM&#8217;s Manager of the Year The Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) has announced Gian Guzm\u00e1n, from the \u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as, as the Manager of the Year for the 2025-2026 championship. The election was the result of a vote by a jury composed of 69 sports communicators nationwide. Guzm\u00e1n led the voting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,5355,1279,11207],"class_list":{"0":"post-100947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cibao-eagles","10":"tag-lidom","11":"tag-manager-of-the-year"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100947","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=100947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}