{"id":499832,"date":"2026-02-10T17:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/luis-castillo-leads-dominican-republics-reserve-pitching-group-for-the-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T17:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:30:55","slug":"luis-castillo-leads-dominican-republics-reserve-pitching-group-for-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/luis-castillo-leads-dominican-republics-reserve-pitching-group-for-the-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Castillo leads Dominican Republic's reserve pitching group for the World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013<\/strong> Right-handed pitcher <strong>Luis Castillo<\/strong> leads the group of six pitchers that the <strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong> national team has in reserve for the <strong>World Baseball Classic<\/strong>, which is scheduled to open on March 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/clasico-mundial-de-beisbol-repartira-dos-cupos-rumbo-a-juegos-olimpicos-de-los-angeles-2028\/\">World Baseball Classic will distribute two spots towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe Dominican leader <strong>Albert Pujols<\/strong> will initially have a starting rotation composed of Christopher S\u00e1nchez, Brayan Bello, Luis Severino and Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara. However, Castillo is the main alternative within the so-called Designated Pitchers Group (DPP), a mechanism that allows the pitching staff to be reinforced after the first round of the tournament.\n\nIn addition to Castillo, the Dominican team has other right-handed pitchers available as additional options in case of eventualities during the championship.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does the DPP system work?<\/h3>\n\n\nAccording to an analysis published on MLB.com, each federation can include up to six pitchers as eligible to be called up after the first phase. Teams are authorized to substitute up to four pitchers after the first round and a maximum of two after the quarterfinals, as long as they are part of the previously registered group.\u2078\n\nThis system expands the strategic margin of the leaders, allowing adjustments based on performance, injuries, or wear and tear on the pitching staff.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Main rivals also have key figures<\/h3>\n\n\nOther contending selections have also included stellar names in their reserve lists. These include:\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos<\/strong> and <strong>Alexis D\u00edaz<\/strong> for <strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jes\u00fas Luzardo<\/strong> with <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tatsuya Imai<\/strong> for <strong>Japan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTO DOMINGO.\u2013 Right-handed pitcher Luis Castillo leads the group of six pitchers that the Dominican Republic national team has in reserve for the World Baseball Classic, which is scheduled to open on March 4. You may be interested in: World Baseball Classic will distribute two spots towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games The Dominican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186,41301],"class_list":{"0":"post-499832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-major-leagues","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth","12":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499835,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499832\/revisions\/499835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}