{"id":116815,"date":"2026-04-19T04:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/felix-neon-debuts-in-mlb-dominican-umpire-makes-history-in-major-leagues-3\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:56:29","slug":"felix-neon-debuts-in-mlb-dominican-umpire-makes-history-in-major-leagues-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/felix-neon-debuts-in-mlb-dominican-umpire-makes-history-in-major-leagues-3\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n Debuts in MLB: Dominican Umpire Makes History in Major Leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n: A New Dominican Milestone in the Major Leagues<\/h2>\n\n\nDominican baseball celebrates a new achievement with the debut of F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n as an umpire in the Major Leagues. This event marks a historic moment in his career and highlights the growth of umpiring in the Dominican Republic.\n\nNeon made its debut this Friday in the match between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers, held at the historic Fenway Park. This stadium, one of the most emblematic in world baseball, was the perfect setting for this important step.\n\nWith this incorporation, Ne\u00f3n becomes the second Dominican to reach the umpire level in Major League Baseball, following in the footsteps of Ram\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas Ferrer, who debuted in 2016.\n\nF\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n is an example of discipline and perseverance. His arrival in the Major Leagues confirms the quality of Dominican umpire development.\n\nNeon is a product of the league&#8217;s training system, with preparation at the Baseball Referee Development Academy (ADAB) and prior experience in the Dominican Summer League, before making the jump to organized baseball.\n\nHer debut represents a significant step forward for her career and an important step for the international projection of Dominican arbitration.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n: A New Dominican Milestone in the Major Leagues Dominican baseball celebrates a new achievement with the debut of F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n as an umpire in the Major Leagues. This event marks a historic moment in his career and highlights the growth of umpiring in the Dominican Republic. Neon made its debut this Friday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,12530,3068,2500],"class_list":{"0":"post-116815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-felix-neon","10":"tag-major-leagues","11":"tag-referee"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116815","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=116815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}