{"id":461839,"date":"2026-02-06T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:50:08","slug":"several-baseball-players-with-local-connections-to-play-in-upcoming-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461839\/","title":{"rendered":"Several baseball players with local connections to play in upcoming World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WBC begins on March 5 as 19 countries vie to topple 2023 champion Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming World Baseball Classic will be well represented by the inland northwest. 19 countries are vying to take down 2023 champion Japan and bring home a WBC title.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of the players with local connections who will take part in the tournament beginning March 5:<\/p>\n<p>Italy- Alek Jacob RHP Gonzaga<\/p>\n<p>Israel- Eli Morgan RHP Gonzaga, Troy Johnston IF Gonzaga<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain- Owen Wild RHP Gonzaga, Will Cresswell C WSU<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela- Germ\u00e1n Marquez RHP, Antonio Senzatela RHP, Ezequiel Tovar SS<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands- Juremi Profar IF, Jurickson Profar OF<\/p>\n<p>Current Seattle Mariners:<\/p>\n<p>USA- Cal Raleigh C, Gabe Speier LHP<\/p>\n<p>Dominican Republic- Julio Rodr\u00edguez CF<\/p>\n<p>Mexico- Randy Arozarena OF, Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz RHP<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela- Eduard Bazardo RHP<\/p>\n<p>Italy- Dom Canzone OF, Miles Mastrobuoni IF<\/p>\n<p>Colombia- Michael Arroyo 2B<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is scheduled to run March 5-17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WBC begins on March 5 as 19 countries vie to topple 2023 champion Japan. The upcoming World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-461839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}