{"id":106125,"date":"2026-01-30T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/chosen-defines-roster-for-caribbean-series-2026-dominican-republic-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T23:07:53","slug":"chosen-defines-roster-for-caribbean-series-2026-dominican-republic-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/chosen-defines-roster-for-caribbean-series-2026-dominican-republic-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen Defines Roster for Caribbean Series 2026: Dominican Republic Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Leones del Escogido announced their official roster for the 2026 Caribbean Series, which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from February 1st to 7th at the Pan American Stadium in Jalisco.\n\nThe Dominican team, after winning their 18th championship in the Dominican League, will present a combination of key players and experienced reinforcements.\n\n<h2>Key Players and Reinforcements<\/h2>\n\nJunior Lake and S\u00f3crates Brito, along with shortstop Erik Gonz\u00e1lez, lead the team, following their outstanding performance in the 2025-26 LIDOM season.\n\n<ul><li>Franchy Cordero<\/li><li>Elier Hern\u00e1ndez<\/li><li>Jimmy Paredes<\/li><li>Jonathan Guzm\u00e1n<\/li><\/ul>\n\nIn the body of pitchers, the following are listed:\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Travis Lakins<\/li><li>Jefry Yan<\/li><li>Conner Greene<\/li><li>Alex Colom\u00e9<\/li><li>Kenny Hern\u00e1ndez<\/li><li>Carlos Teller<\/li><li>Phillips Valdez<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>In addition, the following are integrated as reinforcements:<\/p>\n\nRadham\u00e9s Liz\n\nThe Lions will seek their sixth Caribbean Series crown, after their victories in 1988, 1990, 2010, 2012 and 2025, seeking the 24th title for the Dominican Republic in this regional tournament.\n\nPart of the delegation traveled to Guadalajara on Friday from the Las Am\u00e9ricas International Airport, while the rest of the team will do so on Saturday.\n\nThe Leones del Escogido&#8217;s debut will be on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. (Dominican Republic time) against the Charros de Jalisco (Red Mexico).\n\nIn the Caribbean Series 2026, the Tomateros de Culiac\u00e1n (Green Mexico), the Cangrejeros de Santurce (Puerto Rico), and the Federales de Chiriqu\u00ed (Panama) will also compete.\n\n<h2>Important Absence<\/h2>\n\nThe Baseball Operations Management of the Leones del Escogido reported that first baseman Yamaico Navarro will not be able to accompany the team in Mexico due to family reasons.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO \u2013 The Leones del Escogido announced their official roster for the 2026 Caribbean Series, which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from February 1st to 7th at the Pan American Stadium in Jalisco. The Dominican team, after winning their 18th championship in the Dominican League, will present a combination of key players and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,2688,3876,3875],"class_list":{"0":"post-106125","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-guadalajara","11":"tag-leones-del-escogido"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106125","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=106125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}