{"id":473334,"date":"2025-06-29T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/aroboy-santana-confirms-rafael-devers-will-play-with-the-escogido-and-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:45:21","slug":"aroboy-santana-confirms-rafael-devers-will-play-with-the-escogido-and-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/aroboy-santana-confirms-rafael-devers-will-play-with-the-escogido-and-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Aroboy Santana confirms: Rafael Devers will play with the Escogido and in the 2026 World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- Rafael Devers, Major League star, will return to the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) with the Leones del Escogido for the 2025-2026 season and will also be part of the Dominican team in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.\n\nThis was revealed by \u00c1ngel \u201cAroboy\u201d Santana, special assistant to the general manager of Escogido, during an interview on Diamante el Podcast<\/a>, along with journalists William Aish, Baudilio Jim\u00e9nez, Pedro Brice\u00f1o, Bienvenido Carmona Jr. and Josu\u00e9 Batista.\n\n\n

\u201c\u00c9l va a jugar en la liga de invierno. Me dijo: \u2018Aroboy, esp\u00e9renme all\u00e1\u2019. \u00c9l va para el Cl\u00e1sico y viene a ponerse ready para ac\u00e1\u201d,<\/p> cont\u00f3 Santana sobre su conversaci\u00f3n con Devers.<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nDevers hasn’t played in Dominican winter ball since the 2015-2016 season, when he participated in 13 games with the Leones. His return generates high expectations, especially after Escogido’s championship in January 2025, which broke a ten-year title drought.\n\n\n

You can also read: Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez out of the Guardians’ lineup after being hit by a pitch | De \u00daltimo Minuto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nThat historic triumph featured figures like Junior Caminero, Socrates Brito, Jean Segura and manager Albert Pujols, in addition to the work of people like Santana, who has been linked to the team since 2022.\n\nSantana also took the opportunity to clarify that, despite rumors of tensions, the relationship between Devers and the manager of the Boston Red Sox, Alex Cora, is excellent. “Everyone is wrong. They get along too well,” he said.\n\nDevers’ possible return to the LIDOM<\/a> and his participation in the Classic reaffirm the commitment of great Dominican figures to local and international baseball.\n\n

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Santo Domingo.- Rafael Devers, Major League star, will return to the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) with the Leones del Escogido for the 2025-2026 season and will also be part of the Dominican team in the 2026 World Baseball Classic. This was revealed by \u00c1ngel \u201cAroboy\u201d Santana, special assistant to the general manager of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":473335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Z8q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Angel-Aroboy-Santana.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Angel-Aroboy-Santana.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}