{"id":266697,"date":"2026-10-03T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/tampa-bay-rays-junior-caminero-shares-rare-glimpse-into-his-life-as-a-girl-dad-before-mlb-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:00:40","slug":"tampa-bay-rays-junior-caminero-shares-rare-glimpse-into-his-life-as-a-girl-dad-before-mlb-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/tampa-bay-rays-junior-caminero-shares-rare-glimpse-into-his-life-as-a-girl-dad-before-mlb-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays\u2019 Junior Caminero Shares Rare Glimpse Into His Life as a Girl Dad Before MLB Playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Tampa Bay Rays third baseman <strong>Junior Caminero<\/strong> takes to the field on game day, he can\u2019t help but think of his daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMy family is everything,\u201d Caminero, 23, exclusively shared with <i>Us<\/i> on Wednesday, September 30, when celebrating his title of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bajablasthomeruns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">2026 MLB Baja Blast Champion<\/span><\/a>. \u201cOn Father\u2019s Day, I wore my cleats with [a photo of] my daughter and my family is everything. I wanna support that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In November 2025, Caminero and his wife, <strong>Francesca<\/strong>, welcomed a daughter named Valentina. Although he tries to keep his personal life private, the MLB player previously walked the red carpet with his family at an MLB All-Star event in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is my support every single day,\u201d Caminero said about his daughter. \u201cShe\u2019s too young. [She] don\u2019t know nothing in baseball right now. \u2026 When I come home to my house, we have a room for my baby, and we play a little bit with the ball. That\u2019s the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cIn the years when she starts getting bigger and bigger and bigger \u2026 that will be a special moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For now, Caminero is focused on the MLB playoffs and his team facing off against the New York Yankees starting Saturday, October 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout the season, the Dominican Republic native has felt the love from Tampa Bay and his teammates as he reached career milestones, including crushing 21 home runs of 420+ feet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dd_2s-5ALZW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Baja Blast, which is the official soft drink of the MLB, recently surprised Caminero with a custom champion box commemorating the massive hits that earned him the title of MLB Baja Blast Champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During the MLB postseason and World Series, every 420+ ft home run will unlock free Baja Blasts for fans nationwide.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe fans are outstanding. The fans, I want to say thank God for them, especially being back at Tropicana Field and the fans being around every day,\u201d Caminero said. \u201cThank you for the support every single day. We gotta see all the fans celebrate here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Win or lose, the MLB All-Star player is grateful to have experienced another season doing what he loves with teammates he describes as a \u201cgreat group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cFor me, baseball is my everything, my life. This is a dream come true for me,\u201d Caminero shared. \u201cAs a young kid, we dreamed of this. Now everybody knows me, and I thank God for the work put in every single day. I play for the best team in the American League right now. That\u2019s always been the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/tampa-bay-rays-junior-caminero-details-life-as-a-girl-dad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero takes to the field on game day, he can\u2019t help but think of his daughter. \u201cMy family is everything,\u201d Caminero, 23, exclusively shared with Us on Wednesday, September 30, when celebrating his title of 2026 MLB Baja Blast Champion. \u201cOn Father\u2019s Day, I wore my cleats with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}