{"id":485480,"date":"2025-10-03T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/felnin-celesten-first-pick-of-the-2025-rookie-draft-joins-the-toros-del-este\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:59:14","slug":"felnin-celesten-first-pick-of-the-2025-rookie-draft-joins-the-toros-del-este","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/felnin-celesten-first-pick-of-the-2025-rookie-draft-joins-the-toros-del-este\/","title":{"rendered":"Felnin Celest\u00e9n, first pick of the 2025 Rookie Draft, joins the Toros del Este"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/h1>\n\n\nSanto Domingo<\/strong>. Prospect Felnin Celest\u00e9n<\/strong>, considered one of the main promises of Dominican baseball, is already training with the Toros del Este<\/strong>, after having been selected as the first pick of the 2025 Rookie Draft<\/strong> of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM).\n\n\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong>Bethancourt, Gann and \u00c1lvarez join the Tigres del Licey camp \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe 19-year-old shortstop, belonging to the Seattle Mariners<\/strong>, arrived at the bullfighting training sessions at the beginning of the week and has already seen action in three preseason games, competing for the starting position at the number six position for the Opening Day of the winter campaign, scheduled for October 15.\n\nThe general manager of the Bulls, Jes\u00fas Mej\u00eda<\/strong>, defined the young player as “a solid shortstop, who brings athleticism, speed and a dynamic bat”, highlighting the importance of his arrival to reinforce the infield of the Romanense team.\n\nCelest\u00e9n, a native of Guaymate, La Romana<\/strong>, signed with the Mariners in 2023 for a bonus of US$4.7 million<\/strong>, the highest awarded by the organization in the international free agent market that year. In his time in Class A and Class A strong in 2025, he recorded an average of .273<\/strong> (115 hits in 421 at-bats), with 6 home runs, 59 RBIs, 58 runs scored, 19 doubles and 3 triples.\n\n“First of all, I thank God and then the Toros staff for taking me into account in the draft. I felt very good being selected. For me, who am from La Romana, it’s a dream to play here, in my town,” the player expressed excitedly after Friday’s practice.\n\nIn addition to Celest\u00e9n, the Toros have recently received major leaguers Marco Luciano<\/strong> and Sixto S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, along with imports Matt Dermody<\/strong> and R.J. Alaniz<\/strong>. Infielders Iv\u00e1n Castillo, Manny Pe\u00f1a, Randy Guzm\u00e1n and Francisco Urb\u00e1ez<\/strong> have also joined, as well as pitchers Jos\u00e9 Adames, Gr\u00e9gory Louis, Anderson Bid\u00f3, Jes\u00fas Liranzo and Valent\u00edn Linares<\/strong>.\n\nWith these additions, the orange team continues its preparation with a view to competing from day one in the 2025-26 winter tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. Prospect Felnin Celest\u00e9n, considered one of the main promises of Dominican baseball, is already training with the Toros del Este, after having been selected as the first pick of the 2025 Rookie Draft of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM). You may be interested in:Bethancourt, Gann and \u00c1lvarez join the Tigres del […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":485481,"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":[611,40231,9098,40853],"class_list":["post-485480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-lidom","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22ik","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/IMG_3007.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\/10\/IMG_3007.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485480","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=485480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}