Yesterday LIDOM (Liga de Béisbol Profesional de la República Dominicana, the DR’s professional baseball league) held their first-year player draft—the draft de novatos—and six Mariners prospects were chosen over the sixteen rounds. Five of LIDOM’s six teams elected Mariners prospects; only the reigning champions, the Gigantes del Cibao (who took then-Mariners prospect Noelvi Marte in 2019), did not select a Mariner. In order to be eligible for the draft, a player must be Dominican-born or of Dominican ancestry (that’s how Toronto’s Ricky Tiedemann was able to be selected, much to the amusement of the LIDOM fans), and have reached the A ball level by August of this year.
Mariners have six prospects chosen in the LIDOM first-year player draft, headlined by OF Jonatan Clase
