{"id":144062,"date":"2020-07-17T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=144062"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:00:33","slug":"free-agency-for-the-dominican-winter-professional-baseball-league-expanded-summer-baseball-league-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/17\/free-agency-for-the-dominican-winter-professional-baseball-league-expanded-summer-baseball-league-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Free agency for the Dominican Winter Professional Baseball League; expanded Summer Baseball League announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"822\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Estadio-Quisqueya-Hoy-1024x822.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144099\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Republic&#8217;s Professional Baseball League (Lidom) announced that it has reached a final agreement with the National Federation of Professional Baseball Players (Fenapepro) to establish free agency in the local fall\/winter baseball league. The free agency protocol would go into effect in time for the 2022-23 championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The representatives of Lidom and Fenapepro are confident they could be signing a new general agreement between both institutions in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This free agency agreement with Fenapepro is an important step for the benefit of our players and of baseball in general,&#8221; said Vitelio Meji\u00eda Ortiz, president of Lidom. &#8220;With this initial agreement, our players, the teams and all the fans of our game win&#8221;, declared Erick Almonte, president of Fenapepro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lidom&#8217;s Technical Commission was made up of Winston Chilote Llenas, Valent\u00edn Contreras, Jorge Torres, Francisco Micheli, Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez and Carlos Jos\u00e9 Lugo. While the Technical Commission representing Fenapepro was integrated by its president, Erick Almonte, Vian Ara\u00fajo, F\u00e9lix Luz\u00f3n, Quilvio Veras and Esteban Germ\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitelio Mejia also announced that six professional teams will join other franchises for a 12-team league in time for next year&#8217;s Summer League Professional Tournament. The organization of the summer league is under Winston (Chilote) Llenas of the Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as. There are talks about creating new baseball franchises in the provinces of San Jose de Ocoa, San Juan de la Maguana, Montecristi, Peravia and Santo Domingo East. These would join the long-standing teams &#8212; Leones del Escogido, Tigres del Licey (in Santo Domingo) Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as (Santiago), Estrellas Orientales (San Pedro de Macoris), Gigantes del Cibao (San Francisco de Macoris) and Toros del Este (La Romana).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/historico-aprueban-agencia-libre-en-lidom\/\">Hoy <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/07\/16\/lidom-y-fenapepro-se-ponen-de-acuerdo-con-la-agencia-libre\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/deportes\/lidom-y-fedobe-crean-liga-de-verano-con-doce-equipos-8839370.html\">Acento <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/el-deporte\/2020\/07\/16\/626535\/la-agencia-libre-se-establecera-en-el-beisbol-profesional-dominicano\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 July 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic&#8217;s Professional Baseball League (Lidom) announced that it has reached a final agreement with the National Federation of Professional Baseball Players (Fenapepro) to establish free agency in the local fall\/winter baseball league. The free agency protocol would go into effect in time for the 2022-23 championship. The representatives of Lidom and Fenapepro are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/07\/17\/free-agency-for-the-dominican-winter-professional-baseball-league-expanded-summer-baseball-league-announced\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144062"}],"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=144062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144100,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144062\/revisions\/144100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}