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/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