{"id":153215,"date":"2026-08-31T10:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/estrellas-orientales-begin-training-for-the-2026-27-lidom-season\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:53:44","slug":"estrellas-orientales-begin-training-for-the-2026-27-lidom-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/estrellas-orientales-begin-training-for-the-2026-27-lidom-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Estrellas Orientales begin training for the 2026-27 LIDOM season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Estrellas Orientales fine-tune details for the 2026-27 LIDOM season<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Estrellas Orientales management has made official its preparation calendar for the upcoming season of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), which is scheduled to begin on October 16. The green team is preparing to seek the championship with a defined work structure.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Training schedule<\/h3>\n\n<p>The road to the crown begins on September 14th with a specialized mini-camp. This first phase of training will take place at the Detroit Tigers complex, located in the municipality of Ram\u00f3n Santana, and will be focused primarily on the development of pitchers and catchers.<\/p>\n\n<p>Subsequently, on September 21, the organization will open its doors at the Tetelo Vargas Stadium in San Pedro de Macor\u00eds to welcome the full roster, formally kicking off the preseason under the command of manager H\u00e9ctor Borg, who takes on the challenge of leading the team in this new stage.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Luxury coaching staff<\/h3>\n\n<p>H\u00e9ctor Borg will be supported by a large group of specialists in charge of enhancing every aspect of the game:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Strategy and bench:<\/strong> Carlos Valderrama (bench and baserunning coach) and Carlos Paulino (manager&#8217;s assistant).<\/li><li><strong>Pitching:<\/strong> Jairo Cuevas (pitching coach), Alex Concepci\u00f3n (assistant) and Robelin Bautista (bullpen coach).<\/li><li><strong>Offense:<\/strong> Ren\u00e9 Rojas (hitting coach), Rafael Pe\u00f1a (hitting strategy) and the support team consisting of Land Carrero and Javier Roa.<\/li><li><strong>Defense and coordination:<\/strong> Erick Salcedo (infield), Oscar Bernard (strategic coordination), Claudio Almonte (first base and outfielders) and \u00c1ngel Rosario (third base).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confirmed imported players<\/h3>\n\n<p>The Estrellas have opted for continuity and knowledge of the circuit by confirming the return of two key pieces among their imports:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">Outfielder Ismael Mungu\u00eda, who dominated the league with a .368 batting average last season, along with pitcher Patrick Weigel, a key piece in the bullpen over the last two years, lead the list of confirmed reinforcements to date.<\/p>\n<cite>Alofoke Deportes<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>With these pieces, the San Pedro de Macor\u00eds team reaffirms its commitment to presenting a competitive roster from the first day of action in Dominican winter baseball.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estrellas Orientales fine-tune details for the 2026-27 LIDOM season The Estrellas Orientales management has made official its preparation calendar for the upcoming season of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), which is scheduled to begin on October 16. The green team is preparing to seek the championship with a defined work structure. Training schedule The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[88,7848,1279,7795],"class_list":{"0":"post-153215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-estrellas-orientales","10":"tag-lidom","11":"tag-trainings"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153215","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=153215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}