{"id":478770,"date":"2025-08-16T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-prospect-gustavo-talmar-passes-away-at-14-years-old\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T14:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:09:34","slug":"dominican-prospect-gustavo-talmar-passes-away-at-14-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/dominican-prospect-gustavo-talmar-passes-away-at-14-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican prospect Gustavo Talmar passes away at 14 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/h1>\n\n\nSanto Domingo.<\/strong> \u2013 Dominican baseball is in mourning after learning of the death of Gustavo Talmar\u00e9, a 14-year-old prospect, who lost his life this Saturday, August 16, due to drowning in a lagoon near the academy where he trained, as confirmed by ESPN Digital.\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/a><\/strong>RD defeats Venezuela 7-6 and the Caribbean Series Kids 2025 Semifinals are defined<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nTalmar\u00e9 had become one of the most striking promises of the country thanks to his outstanding performance in the first edition of the Caribbean Series Kids 2024<\/strong>, where he was chosen Most Valuable Player<\/strong>, in addition to shining in the U-12 Baseball World Cup 2023<\/strong>, in which he was the most outstanding Dominican.\n\nAmaurys Nina, coach and owner of the academy where the young baseball player was developing, confirmed the sad news:\n\n\u201cI was devastated to learn about it. The body was recovered by a rescue organization, but I still don’t understand what it was doing there. The authorities are investigating what happened,\u201d he declared.\n\nThe death was also confirmed by Valent\u00edn Contreras N\u00fa\u00f1ez, a member of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM)<\/strong> and coordinator of the Quisqueyan team in the 2024 Caribbean Series Kids, who expressed his pain through social media.\n\nAccording to the preliminary report of the Dominican National Police<\/strong>, Talmar\u00e9 died of asphyxiation by immersion (drowning)<\/strong>. The document indicates that the teenager would have fallen into the Laguna del Toro<\/strong>, in Guerra, while looking for fruits. The Homicide Investigation Department took charge of the case to clarify the circumstances.\n\n\n

A stellar future extinguished too soon<\/h3>\n\n\nIn the Caribbean Series Kids 2024<\/strong>, Talmar\u00e9 led the offense with 4 home runs, 10 RBIs, and 8 hits, leaving his mark as the most decisive player of the tournament.
In the 2023 U-12 World Cup<\/strong>, he had a batting average of .471, three home runs and seven RBIs, as well as a slugging percentage of 1.084<\/strong>, being included in the ideal team of the competition.\n\nHis talent and charisma had projected him as one of the great promises of Dominican baseball with a view to the Major Leagues.\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. \u2013 Dominican baseball is in mourning after learning of the death of Gustavo Talmar\u00e9, a 14-year-old prospect, who lost his life this Saturday, August 16, due to drowning in a lagoon near the academy where he trained, as confirmed by ESPN Digital. You may be interested in:RD defeats Venezuela 7-6 and the Caribbean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":478771,"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":[41952,611,40231,41303],"class_list":["post-478770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-caribbean-series","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-thetruthpaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20y6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Gustavo-Talmare-728x484-1.webp","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\/08\/Gustavo-Talmare-728x484-1.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478770","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=478770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}