{"id":505068,"date":"2026-04-17T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-felix-neon-makes-history-by-debuting-as-an-umpire-in-major-league-baseball\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:32:19","slug":"dominican-felix-neon-makes-history-by-debuting-as-an-umpire-in-major-league-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/dominican-felix-neon-makes-history-by-debuting-as-an-umpire-in-major-league-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n makes history by debuting as an umpire in Major League Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>With this step, he becomes the second Dominican to reach the level of umpire in Major League Baseball, following in the footsteps of Ram\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas Ferrer, who debuted in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Dominican Professional Baseball League, Vitelio Mej\u00eda Ortiz, highlighted the achievement as a sign of the growth of umpiring in the country. \"F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n is an example of discipline and perseverance. His arrival in the Major Leagues confirms the quality of Dominican umpiring development,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Neon is a product of the league's training system, with preparation at the Baseball Referee Development Academy (ADAB) and prior experience in the Dominican Summer League, before making the jump to organized baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Her debut not only represents a personal achievement, but also an important step for the international projection of Dominican arbitration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n Error en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n With this step, he becomes the second Dominican to reach the level of umpire in Major League Baseball, following in the footsteps of Ram\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas Ferrer, who debuted in 2016. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":505069,"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-505068","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\/20260417_212341.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\/20260417_212341.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505068","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=505068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}