{"id":99533,"date":"2025-12-31T04:57:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pujols-rd-almost-ready-for-the-world-baseball-classic-lets-win-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:57:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:57:23","slug":"pujols-rd-almost-ready-for-the-world-baseball-classic-lets-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/pujols-rd-almost-ready-for-the-world-baseball-classic-lets-win-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pujols: RD almost ready for the World Baseball Classic, let&#8217;s win!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Albert Pujols: &#8220;The mission is to win the World Baseball Classic&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\nThe legendary baseball player, Albert Pujols, has made clear the ambition of the Dominican Republic for the next World Baseball Classic: to conquer the championship for the second time.\n\nPujols, who works alongside the team&#8217;s general manager, Nelson Cruz, in setting up the squad, assured that the roster is practically defined.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I believe that 95 percent of the roster is already set. The other 5 percent is because we have been scouting several guys who are playing in the winter league who also have that chance to represent and I believe that our country and the fans are going to feel happy and satisfied with the roster that Nelson Cruz and I and the group are forming.<\/p><cite>Albert Pujols<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPujols acknowledges the importance of forming a competitive team, especially after the disappointing performance of 2023, where the Dominican Republic was eliminated in the first round.\n\nThe leader emphasized the team&#8217;s responsibility to seek victory. &#8220;Everyone knows that we have a responsibility and the responsibility is to try to win that championship once again,&#8221; Pujols affirmed.\n\nDominican Republic will share Group D of the next World Baseball Classic with Venezuela, Netherlands, Israel, and Nicaragua. The last time they advanced to the second phase was in 2017.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Pujols: &#8220;The mission is to win the World Baseball Classic&#8221; The legendary baseball player, Albert Pujols, has made clear the ambition of the Dominican Republic for the next World Baseball Classic: to conquer the championship for the second time. Pujols, who works alongside the team&#8217;s general manager, Nelson Cruz, in setting up the squad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[9374,1271,941,2010],"class_list":{"0":"post-99533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-albert-pujols","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-tournament","11":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99533","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=99533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}