{"id":124665,"date":"2019-04-01T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124665"},"modified":"2019-04-01T23:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:29:44","slug":"102-dominicans-on-mlb-rosters-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/01\/102-dominicans-on-mlb-rosters-on-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"102 Dominicans on MLB rosters on opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MLB-logo-1024x631.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124675\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MLB-logo-1024x631.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MLB-logo-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MLB-logo-768x473.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MLB-logo.jpeg 1273w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An Associated Press news story highlights that for the first time a single country has more than 100 players on the opening rosters of MLB. MLB said that 251 of the 882 players on the rosters were foreign-born. Of these, 102 are <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-del replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\">Dominican-born,<\/g> or 11.6%. This does not include Dominican baseball players that were born in the United States, such as Manny Machado, Dell\u00edn Betances, Jeimer Candelario, Alex Reyes <g class=\"gr_ gr_11 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"11\" data-gr-id=\"11\">and<\/g> Adalberto Mondes\u00ed.  Dominicans make up 40.6% of all foreign baseball players, Venezuela is second with 68 and Cuba third with 19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/el-deporte\/2019\/03\/29\/559364\/republica-dominicana-supera-el-centenar-de-jugadores-en-nominas\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Associated Press news story highlights that for the first time a single country has more than 100 players on the opening rosters of MLB. MLB said that 251 of the 882 players on the rosters were foreign-born. Of these, 102 are Dominican-born, or 11.6%. This does not include Dominican baseball players that were born &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/01\/102-dominicans-on-mlb-rosters-on-opening-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124676,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124665\/revisions\/124676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}