{"id":160339,"date":"2026-09-14T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/leones-del-escogido-begin-training-for-the-2026-27-lidom-season\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:00:45","slug":"leones-del-escogido-begin-training-for-the-2026-27-lidom-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/leones-del-escogido-begin-training-for-the-2026-27-lidom-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Leones del Escogido begin training for the 2026-27 LIDOM season"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leones del Escogido begin the road to a three-peat: Date and training details<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Leones del Escogido, current back-to-back champions of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), have marked the start of their preparation work on their calendar. With the goal of defending their crown, the scarlet team will begin their official training on September 25th.<\/p>\n\n<p>The practices will take place at the New York Yankees academy facilities, located in Boca Chica, formally starting at 9:00 in the morning. Carlos Pe\u00f1a, general manager of the organization, confirmed that the call is directed to all players on the native reserve list and the talents selected in the most recent LIDOM Rookie Draft.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An armored squad for the 2026-27 season<\/h2>\n\n<p>After achieving glory in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, the Lions have worked hard during the off-season to maintain their competitiveness. Management has executed strategic moves to strengthen the roster, highlighting the following additions and renewals:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>New free agent signings:<\/strong> Michael De la Cruz (catcher), Radham\u00e9s Liz (pitcher), Marco Hern\u00e1ndez and Iv\u00e1n Castillo (infielders).<\/li><li><strong>Acquisitions via trade:<\/strong> Vidal Bruj\u00e1n (utility) and Dinelson Lamet (pitcher).<\/li><li><strong>Key renewals:<\/strong> Erik Gonz\u00e1lez, S\u00f3crates Brito, Franchy Cordero, Jos\u00e9 Marmolejos, H\u00e9ctor Neris and Jimmy Paredes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The combination of established talent and young prospects is the bet of the &#8216;melenudos&#8217; to reach their nineteenth national title and consolidate their dynasty in Dominican winter baseball.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Inaugural duel at the Quisqueya<\/h2>\n\n<p>The excitement of winter baseball will arrive at the Quisqueya Juan Marichal Stadium on October 16. On that date, the Leones del Escogido will open the 2026-27 tournament by facing the Tigres del Licey, in what promises to be an electrifying start to the season for the capital&#8217;s fans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leones del Escogido begin the road to a three-peat: Date and training details The Leones del Escogido, current back-to-back champions of the Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM), have marked the start of their preparation work on their calendar. With the goal of defending their crown, the scarlet team will begin their official training on September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[88,1271,3875,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-160339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"tag-baseball","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-leones-del-escogido","10":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160339","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=160339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}