On Thursday afternoon the six Dominican Winter League teams got together to hold their annual draft. Their draft is not necessarily about guys that will play this year, though some may, but more about having the rights to the players in the future should they be deemed ready to play at the Dominican Winter League level. Last year there were only two positions players from the system that got into games (Junior Arias had four at bats and Juan Silverio had 38). The Reds did have four pitchers in the league though as Daniel Corcino (10.1 IP), Ryan Dennick (23.1 IP), Jumbo Diaz (19.0 IP) and Trevor Reckling (8.0 IP) all got playing time.
The league schedule is for 50 regular season games and four of the six teams play an 18 game round robin playoff series with the top two teams playing a best-of-nine series for the Dominican Winter League Championship and a trip to the Caribbean Series to face off against the winners of the Puerto Rican, Mexican and Venezuelan Winter Leagues in another round robin tournament.
Infielder Ronald Bueno was selected in the 11th round of the draft by Aguilas Cibaeñas.
Outfielder Jonathan Reynoso was selected in the 18th round by Estrellas Orientales. He will be joined in that organizaton by pitcher Pedro Diaz who was the teams 20th round selection.
All three players spent their seasons with the Dayton Dragons in 2014.