{"id":479950,"date":"2025-08-25T09:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/luis-castillo-is-inducted-into-the-miami-marlins-hall-of-fame\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:50:36","slug":"luis-castillo-is-inducted-into-the-miami-marlins-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/luis-castillo-is-inducted-into-the-miami-marlins-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Castillo is inducted into the Miami Marlins Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Miami<\/strong>.\u2014 Former Dominican second baseman <strong>Luis Castillo<\/strong> was inducted into the <strong>Miami Marlins Hall of Fame<\/strong> during an emotional ceremony held at <strong>LoanDepot Park<\/strong>, as part of the <strong>Dominican Heritage Weekend<\/strong>. The tribute took place before the game between the <strong>Marlins<\/strong> and the <strong>Toronto Blue Jays<\/strong>, in the presence of franchise legends and thousands of fans.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/cal-raleigh-conecta-dos-jonrones-y-rompe-record-historico-entre-receptores\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Raleigh hits two home runs and breaks historical record among catchers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nCastillo, <strong>49 years old<\/strong>, played <strong>10 seasons<\/strong> with the Marlins, in which he accumulated a batting average of <strong>.293<\/strong>, <strong>.370 OBP<\/strong>, <strong>192 extra-base hits<\/strong> and <strong>533 stolen bases<\/strong>, achieving a total of <strong>22.4 wins above replacement (WAR)<\/strong> in <strong>1,128 regular season games<\/strong>. During his time in Miami, the second baseman won <strong>three Gold Gloves<\/strong>, was <strong>three-time All-Star<\/strong> and was part of the historic <strong>2003 World Series<\/strong> champion team against the <strong>New York Yankees<\/strong>.\n\nThe exaltation ceremony, the first in the organization&#8217;s history, also included other iconic figures such as <strong>Jeff Conine<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Leyland<\/strong> and <strong>Jack McKeon<\/strong>, all part of the legacy that led the Marlins to glory. Castillo and Conine participated in the official launch of the immortals&#8217; niche, accompanied by other memorable names such as <strong>Juan Pierre<\/strong>, the also Dominican <strong>Antonio Alfonseca<\/strong>, the Cuban <strong>Liv\u00e1n Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> and <strong>Gaby S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>.\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\">El Club Atl\u00e9tico Tigres del Licey felicita a nuestro ex jugador Luis Castillo por su inducci\u00f3n al Sal\u00f3n de la Fama de los Marlins de Miami. <br><br>Un reconocimiento m\u00e1s que merecido a su trayectoria, entrega y legado en el b\u00e9isbol.<br><br>\u00a1Felicidades, Luis! Tu familia azul celebra contigo\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2O8Mv1GV4S\">pic.twitter.com\/2O8Mv1GV4S<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tigres del Licey (@TigresdelLicey) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TigresdelLicey\/status\/1959711858509897951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nIn addition to his collective achievements, Castillo holds several <strong>historical franchise records<\/strong>, including the <strong>most games played<\/strong> and a <strong>35-game hitting streak in 2002<\/strong>, a Major League record for a second baseman at the time.\n\nCastillo&#8217;s legacy also extends to winter baseball, where with the <strong>Tigres del Licey<\/strong> he was a key player in <strong>three LIDOM championships<\/strong>, winning the <strong>Gold Glove<\/strong> in the <strong>1997-98<\/strong> season, leading in <strong>triples (4)<\/strong> in the <strong>1998-99<\/strong> tournament and in <strong>stolen bases (17)<\/strong>, establishing himself as one of the most complete players of his generation.\n\n&#8220;It&#8217;s an immense honor to be part of the Marlins&#8217; history and to share this moment with my family, my teammates, and the fans who have always supported me,&#8221; Castillo expressed, visibly moved during the event.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami.\u2014 Former Dominican second baseman Luis Castillo was inducted into the Miami Marlins Hall of Fame during an emotional ceremony held at LoanDepot Park, as part of the Dominican Heritage Weekend. The tribute took place before the game between the Marlins and the Toronto Blue Jays, in the presence of franchise legends and thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":479952,"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":[611,40231,39774,13766,41186,40230],"class_list":["post-479950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20R8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/LUIS-CASTILLO-HOF-1.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":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/LUIS-CASTILLO-HOF-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479950","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=479950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}