{"id":502241,"date":"2026-03-15T19:44:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/juan-soto-acknowledges-paul-skenes-talent-before-the-duel-between-the-dominican-republic-and-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:44:23","slug":"juan-soto-acknowledges-paul-skenes-talent-before-the-duel-between-the-dominican-republic-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/juan-soto-acknowledges-paul-skenes-talent-before-the-duel-between-the-dominican-republic-and-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto acknowledges Paul Skenes&#8217; talent before the duel between the Dominican Republic and the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 Dominican star outfielder <strong>Juan Soto<\/strong> highlighted the qualities of American pitcher <strong>Paul Skenes<\/strong>, whom he described as one of the smartest and most dominant arms in current baseball, prior to the match between <strong>Dominican Republic national baseball team<\/strong> and <strong>United States national baseball team<\/strong> in the <strong>World Baseball Classic<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"\u201cThere is no fear or doubt; the team's talent is there to win\u201d\">Soto: \u201cThere is no fear or doubt; the team&#8217;s talent is there to win\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nSoto explained that one of Skenes&#8217; main strengths is his ability to manage the minds of the batters and constantly vary his strategy on the mound.\n\n&#8220;He&#8217;s a very smart pitcher. He likes to play with the minds of the hitters, throw in different zones and make the players move their feet and think a little deeper on each turn,&#8221; commented the Dominican.\n\nThe gardener, recognized for his discipline at the plate, also highlighted the aggressiveness with which the American pitcher attacks the hitters, which makes him a complicated rival for any lineup.\n\n&#8220;One of the things that makes him special is the way he attacks hitters,&#8221; Soto added.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 Dominican star outfielder Juan Soto highlighted the qualities of American pitcher Paul Skenes, whom he described as one of the smartest\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"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,"_dum_aida_pretitle":"","_dum_aida_subtitle":"","_dum_aida_city":"","_dum_aida_author":"","_dum_aida_caption":"","_dum_aida_captionauthor":"","_dum_aida_quote":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntitle":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntext":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186,40230],"class_list":["post-502241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26EF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502241","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=502241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}