The Dominican team will be adding new names to the team of players that will represent the Caribbean country during their search for the last qualifying position in Tokyo.
The Dominican Olympic Baseball Program (PROBÉISBOL) continues to add pieces to the selection of players that will represent the country in the Olympic playoffs, the last chance to get a pass to Olympic Games on Tokyo in said discipline.
Radhamés Liz (PD) received permission from Yucatán and will accompany us to the Repechage. Dawel Lugo (IF) and Roldani Baldwin (C) will also participate. #UpRD🇩🇴 #RoadToTokyo pic.twitter.com/oGD9ReJ71w
– ProbeisbolRD (@probeisbolrd) June 15, 2021
On this occasion, the team confirmed the return of Radhames Liz, who was with the team during the Americas pre-Olympics, pitching 3.2 innings of four strikeouts during the match against USA, the only one that the country lost in the aforementioned tournament. The pitcher receives permission from the organization again Yucatan lions on the Mexican Baseball League (LMB) to accompany his country’s team between June 22 and 26.
One of the new additions that the team will have is the player in the infield, Dawell Lugo, With experience in Big leagues, Mexican Baseball League (Mariachis of Guadalajara) and in the Dominican Republic Professional Baseball League (LIDOM) next to Tigres del Licey, player who will enter the Dominican national team to replace the veteran Jose Bautista, who due to family commitments had to decline his participation in the last qualifying pre-Olympic phase to Tokyo.
Lugo is currently playing with the Mariachis on the LMB where he is hitting .279 with one home run, thirteen RBIs and nine runs scored in fifteen games.
The other player announced by the national team will also be the debutant Roldani Baldwin, Dominican receiver that belongs to the Double A Branch of Boston Red Sox and who in 19 games so far this season is hitting .279 with seven RBIs.
These three players join Julio Y. Rodríguez, Luis Felipe Castillo, Junior Garcia, Ramon Torres, Johan Mieses, Raynel Espinal Y Marcos Diplán as confirmed members of the selection that will be traveling to Mexico for the olympic playoff, where the Dominicans will face Venezuela already Netherlands.
It is also important to note that the players who will be making their debut with the Dominican national team in the playoffs are filling gaps left by other players who for personal, professional or health reasons cannot go to the tournament, according to the team manager, Jose Gomez.
I want to clarify that the players added by @probeisbolrd they substitute players who did not receive permission from their teams, they left for personal reasons (Bautista), they decided to stay in their organizations (Liberato) or they will not go due to injury. We have not “removed” anyone.
– José Gómez Frías (@JoseGomezFrias) June 15, 2021
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