{"id":478878,"date":"2025-08-17T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-samuel-basallo-receives-news-of-his-mlb-promotion-from-his-father\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:56:07","slug":"dominican-samuel-basallo-receives-news-of-his-mlb-promotion-from-his-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/dominican-samuel-basallo-receives-news-of-his-mlb-promotion-from-his-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Samuel Basallo receives news of his MLB promotion from his father"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n<strong>Houston.<\/strong> \u2013 The excitement of a Major League debut always marks a before and after in a player&#8217;s career, but for <strong>Samuel Basallo<\/strong>, the number 1 prospect of the Baltimore Orioles, the news came in an even more special way: it was his own father, <strong>Jairo Basallo<\/strong>, who informed him that he had been promoted to the big team.\n\n<strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/los-filis-respiran-aliviados-con-duran-pero-sufren-la-baja-de-wheeler-por-coagulo\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Phillies breathe a sigh of relief with Dur\u00e1n, but suffer Wheeler&#8217;s absence due to a clot<\/a>\n\nThe club prepared the surprise in the prelude to the duel against the Houston Astros, when the 21-year-old Dominican was meeting with the Norfolk manager, Tim Federowicz. In the middle of the conversation, he received a video call from his father, who announced to him between tears and smiles the fulfilled dream: &#8220;You&#8217;re going to the Major Leagues!&#8221;\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Ha llegado el momento para Samuel \ud83e\udde1<br><br>\u2070The moment has arrived for Samuel \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B5nJOC9vER\">pic.twitter.com\/B5nJOC9vER<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/1957081002288754717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe scene, shared by the team, reflects the most human side of baseball and has touched teammates and fans alike. &#8220;It was a unique moment, I will never forget it. Hearing it from my dad made it even more special,&#8221; Basallo declared.\n\nBasallo, born in Santo Domingo and signed in 2021 for <strong>1.3 million dollars<\/strong>, arrives with solid credentials: in 76 games with Norfolk in Triple-A he batted for <strong>.270\/.377\/.589<\/strong>, with <strong>23 home runs and 67 RBIs<\/strong>. His production in recent weeks convinced the management that the moment had arrived.\n\nBaltimore plans to use him as a catcher and designated hitter, sharing time with star <strong>Adley Rutschman<\/strong>, as well as having opportunities at first base.\n\nHis arrival also has symbolic value for the Orioles: he is the <strong>first major international signing<\/strong> of the general manager <strong>Mike Elias<\/strong> era to debut in the Majors, confirming the club&#8217;s strategy of expanding its presence in Latin America.\n\nTeammates like <strong>Jackson Holliday<\/strong> don&#8217;t hide their expectation: \u201cSamuel is an incredible talent, he has power and contagious energy. We knew this day would come\u201d.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston. \u2013 The excitement of a Major League debut always marks a before and after in a player&#8217;s career, but for Samuel Basallo, the number 1 prospect of the Baltimore Orioles, the news came in an even more special way: it was his own father, Jairo Basallo, who informed him that he had been promoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":478880,"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":[611,40231,39774,13766,40853],"class_list":["post-478878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20zQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Basallo92624a-e1727365017668.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Basallo92624a-e1727365017668.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478878","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}