{"id":495394,"date":"2025-12-22T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/juan-soto-would-play-with-the-licey-in-a-limited-way-conditioned-to-the-classification\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:58:31","slug":"juan-soto-would-play-with-the-licey-in-a-limited-capacity-conditioned-on-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/juan-soto-would-play-with-the-licey-in-a-limited-capacity-conditioned-on-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto would play with the Licey in a limited capacity, conditioned on qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h3>\n\n\n<strong>SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013<\/strong> The possibility of seeing <strong>Juan Soto<\/strong> in a <strong>Tigres del Licey<\/strong> uniform in the current <strong>LIDOM<\/strong> season is getting closer, although his debut will depend directly on the performance of the blue team in the decisive games of the regular season.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/toros-del-este-refuerzan-su-pitcheo-con-la-contratacion-de-michael-mariot\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toros del Este strengthen their pitching with the hiring of Michael Mariot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe Licey general manager, <strong>Audo Vicente<\/strong>, confirmed that the stellar outfielder already has <strong>permission from the New York Mets<\/strong> to play in Dominican winter baseball. However, he clarified that his participation will be subject to the team&#8217;s competitive situation in the last two games.\n\n\u201c<strong>He has the permit, what we must do is wait to see what happens at least today<\/strong>\u201d, expressed Vicente in statements referring to the match this Monday.\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\">Juan Soto tiene permiso de los NY Mets para jugar como DH si Licey avanza a playoffs de Liga Dominicana.<br>Ser\u00eda una cantidad X de juegos.<\/p>&mdash; Enrique Rojas\/ESPN (@Enrique_Rojas1) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Enrique_Rojas1\/status\/2003181493896794314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\nThe Tigres, with a record of <strong>21-27<\/strong>, occupy the last place in the table and face tonight the <strong>Gigantes del Cibao (22-26)<\/strong>, third in the standings, but just one game ahead of the blues. A victory would keep Licey alive in the fight for one of the <strong>four qualifying spots<\/strong>, where only <strong>\u00c1guilas Cibae\u00f1as<\/strong> and <strong>Toros del Este<\/strong> have their ticket secured.\n\nVicente indicated that <strong>Soto would not see action tonight<\/strong>, but a victory for the capital team would more clearly open the door for his immediate debut.\n\n\u201c<strong>We have to come out on top today so that he can participate<\/strong>\u201d, the executive pointed out, adding that if the objective is achieved, \u201c<strong>from today we can sit down and talk in a different way<\/strong>\u201d. \n\nThe eventual presence of Juan Soto in the LIDOM would be a historic event, as he is the player with the <strong>highest contract in baseball history<\/strong>, wearing the uniform of a Dominican team in a winter league.\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 The possibility of seeing Juan Soto in a Tigres del Licey uniform in the current LIDOM season is getting closer, although his debut will depend directly on the performance of the blue team in the decisive games of the regular season. You may be interested in:Toros del Este strengthen their pitching with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":495396,"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-495394","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\/phj1q1-24Se","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-09-at-2.45.46-PM.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\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-09-at-2.45.46-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495394","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=495394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}