Soto accelerates his recovery and is poised to return with the Mets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nNeon will premiere this Friday in the city of Boston, during the match between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers, to be held at the emblematic Fenway Park.\n\nThe president of the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League, Vitelio Mej\u00eda Ortiz, valued the achievement as a source of pride for Dominican baseball.\n\n\"F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n is an example of discipline and perseverance. His arrival in the Major Leagues confirms the quality of the umpiring development in our country,\" expressed Mej\u00eda Ortiz.\n\nNeon is a product of the LIDOM training system, after his time at the Baseball Umpire Development Academy (ADAB) and his experience in the Dominican Summer League. In 2019 he participated in an MLB camp in Myrtle Beach and, a year later, entered the Umpire Training Academy in Vero Beach, Florida.\n\nAlthough his debut in minor leagues was scheduled for 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed its start. Finally, in 2021 he began his professional career in Class A Short Season, progressively ascending thanks to his performance to higher levels of the system.\n\nBorn in Barahona and 29 years old, Ne\u00f3n has been part of the LIDOM arbitration team since 2018, establishing himself as one of the main Dominican talents in this area.\n\nWith his debut, he joins Ram\u00f3n Ferrer as the Dominican umpires who have reached the highest level of professional baseball.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTO DOMINGO. \u2013 Dominican umpire F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n will make history this weekend by becoming the country’s most recent representative to debut in Major League Baseball. You may be interested in:Soto accelerates his recovery and is poised to return with the Mets Neon will premiere this Friday in the city of Boston, during the match between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":504814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":{"0":"post-504813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-deultimominuto","9":"tag-dominican-republic","10":"tag-major-leagues","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/felix-neon-otro-arbitro-dominicano-cerca-de-la-mlb-4f713d23-focus-0.21-0.65-375-240.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/felix-neon-otro-arbitro-dominicano-cerca-de-la-mlb-4f713d23-focus-0.21-0.65-375-240.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504813","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504815,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504813\/revisions\/504815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}