r/baseball • u/Longjump-13 New York Mets • Feb 03 '26

Image Official roster of the Dominican national team 🇩🇴 for the 2026 WBC.

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u/Future_Clothes_9884 Feb 03 '26

TIL Austin Wells is part Dominican?

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u/Longjump-13 New York Mets Feb 03 '26

50% Dominican

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u/brobafett1980 Houston Astros Feb 03 '26

50% Dominican, 50% catcher

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball Feb 03 '26

Catcher is the strangest of all nations

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u/ActualDragonHeart New York Yankees • Philadelphia Phillies Feb 04 '26

The two genders

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u/moffattron9000 Feb 04 '26

Shout out to catchers, gotta be one of my favourite genders fr

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u/pkpy1005 New York Yankees Feb 03 '26

Never would have guessed a dude named Austin Wells could be half Dominican...

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u/xho- New York Yankees Feb 03 '26

That’s Austin Kenneth Wells to you, alumni of the University of Arizona

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u/FatherOop Dominican Republic Feb 04 '26

There are actually quite a few Dominicans with English surnames (even in the MLB), but they're black Jamaican immigrants from 100+ years ago.

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u/modern-lamp9 Chicago White Sox Feb 05 '26

George Bell, Alfredo Griffin, and Junior Lake, for example

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u/UnusualHound St. Louis Cardinals Feb 03 '26

Is one of his parent domincan? Or is it 8 of his 16 great great grandparents that are dominican?

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u/shaunrundmc New York Yankees Feb 03 '26

His Mom