Santo Domingo.– The Dominican Professional Baseball League winter ball championship will begin Friday, 16 October with games in Santo Domingo, Santiago and La Romana.

The Dominican Winter Baseball League is a winter baseball league consisting of six baseball teams, is the top domestic baseball league in the country. The league's players include many from Major League Baseball, and its champion plays each year in the Caribbean Series.

Each team plays a fifty-game schedule that begins the end of October and runs to the end of December. The top four teams engage in a 18 game round-robin play-off the first three weeks of January; the top two teams in those standings then play a best-of-nine series for the national title.

The league's champion advances to the Caribbean Series to play against the champions of Mexico, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico.