{"id":43709,"date":"2025-10-03T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/felnin-celesten-2025-draft-star-joins-toros-del-este\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:03:25","slug":"felnin-celesten-2025-draft-star-joins-toros-del-este","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/felnin-celesten-2025-draft-star-joins-toros-del-este\/","title":{"rendered":"Felnin Celest\u00e9n: 2025 Draft Star Joins Toros del Este"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo. Felnin Celest\u00e9n, one of the brightest prospects in Dominican baseball, is already training with the Toros del Este. The young man was the first selection of the 2025 Rookie Draft of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM).\n\nThe 19-year-old shortstop, belonging to the Seattle Mariners, joined the bull training at the beginning of the week. He has already participated in three preseason games, competing for the starting position at the sixth position for the Opening Day of the winter season, scheduled for October 15.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cA solid shortstop, who brings athleticism, speed and a dynamic bat\u201d.<\/p><cite>Jes\u00fas Mej\u00eda, general manager of the Toros<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nJes\u00fas Mej\u00eda, general manager of the Toros, highlighted the importance of Celest\u00e9n to strengthen the team&#8217;s infield. The young man, originally from Guaymate, La Romana, signed with the Mariners in 2023 for a bonus of US$4.7 million, the highest awarded by the organization in the international free agent market that year.\n\nIn his time in Class A and Class A strong in 2025, Celest\u00e9n had a .273 average (115 hits in 421 at-bats), with 6 home runs, 59 RBIs, 58 runs scored, 19 doubles, and 3 triples.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;First of all, I thank God and then the Toros staff for taking me into account in the draft. I felt very good to be selected. For me, who am from La Romana, it is a dream to play here, in my town.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Felnin Celest\u00e9n<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIn addition to Celest\u00e9n, the Toros have received major leaguers Marco Luciano and Sixto S\u00e1nchez, along with imports Matt Dermody and R.J. Alaniz. Infielders Iv\u00e1n Castillo, Manny Pe\u00f1a, Randy Guzm\u00e1n and Francisco Urb\u00e1ez have also joined, as well as pitchers Jos\u00e9 Adames, Gr\u00e9gory Louis, Anderson Bid\u00f3, Jes\u00fas Liranzo and Valent\u00edn Linares.\n\nWith these additions, the orange team continues its preparation for the winter tournament 2025-26.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. Felnin Celest\u00e9n, one of the brightest prospects in Dominican baseball, is already training with the Toros del Este. The young man was the first selection of the 2025 Rookie Draft of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). The 19-year-old shortstop, belonging to the Seattle Mariners, joined the bull training at the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,9441,9440,1279],"class_list":{"0":"post-43709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bulls-east","10":"tag-felnin-celesten","11":"tag-lidom"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43709","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=43709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}