{"id":474973,"date":"2025-07-11T22:44:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/carlos-estevez-is-called-to-the-all-star-game-julio-rodriguez-withdraws-from-the-event\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:44:28","slug":"carlos-estevez-is-called-to-the-all-star-game-julio-rodriguez-withdraws-from-the-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/carlos-estevez-is-called-to-the-all-star-game-julio-rodriguez-withdraws-from-the-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Est\u00e9vez is called to the All-Star Game; Julio Rodr\u00edguez withdraws from the event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<em>Santo Domingo<\/em>. Dominican pitcher <strong>Carlos Est\u00e9vez<\/strong>, closer for the <strong>Kansas City Royals<\/strong>, was called up this Friday to the <strong>Major League Baseball All-Star Game<\/strong>, replacing the star Jacob deGrom, who will not be available to pitch on Tuesday in <strong>Atlanta<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<a href=\"Fedom announces the \u201cV National Championship U-6\u201d\">r:<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"Fedom announces the \u201cV National Championship U-6\u201d\">Fedom announces the \u201cV National Championship U-6\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith this call-up, Estevez adds his <strong>second participation in the Midseason Classic<\/strong>, after his debut in 2023 with the Angels. At 32 years old, the right-hander is having the best season of his career: he leads the American League with <strong>25 saves<\/strong> and boasts an impressive <strong>2.03 ERA<\/strong> in 39 appearances. In addition, his earned run average is among the top five of all relievers in the young circuit with at least 40 innings pitched.\n\nEst\u00e9vez joins teammates <strong>Bobby Witt Jr.<\/strong> and <strong>Kris Bubic<\/strong> as the three Royals representatives in this All-Star Game, thus strengthening the presence of the Kansas City team in the 2025 edition of the event.\n\nOn the other hand, Dominican outfielder <strong>Julio Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, of the Seattle Mariners, will not participate in the event despite having been chosen by the players&#8217; vote. The club announced that Rodr\u00edguez will use the break to <strong>recover, rest and prepare<\/strong> for the second half of the season. So far this year, he is batting <strong>.244<\/strong>, with <strong>11 home runs, 44 RBIs and 15 stolen bases<\/strong>.\n\nCarlos Est\u00e9vez joins a large group of Dominicans already confirmed for the All-Star Game, including <strong>Manny Machado, Ketel Marte, Fernando Tatis Jr., Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Junior Caminero, Randy Arozarena, Elly De La Cruz<\/strong> and <strong>Rafael Devers<\/strong>, solidifying a strong Dominican presence in the most prestigious mid-season event in MLB.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo. Dominican pitcher Carlos Est\u00e9vez, closer for the Kansas City Royals, was called up this Friday to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, replacing the star Jacob deGrom, who will not be available to pitch on Tuesday in Atlanta. You may be interested in:r:Fedom announces the \u201cV National Championship U-6\u201d With this call-up, Estevez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":474974,"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":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186,40230],"class_list":["post-474973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZyR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/xnahnazriux8k405p10v.jpeg","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":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/xnahnazriux8k405p10v.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474973","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=474973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}