{"id":523841,"date":"2026-03-07T03:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523841\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:23:59","slug":"puerto-rico-is-missing-8-impact-mlb-players-from-wbc-roster-including-lindor-correa-for-injury-insurance-suspension-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523841\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico is missing 8 impact MLB players from WBC roster, including Lindor, Correa, for injury, insurance, suspension reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/news\/puerto-rico-missing-8-impact-mlb-players-wbc-roster-lindor-correa-injury-insurance-suspension-reasons\/bf01648494970a80d60da147?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Puerto Rico is missing 8 impact MLB players from WBC roster, including Lindor, Correa, for injury, insurance, suspension reasons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Puerto Rico is missing 8 impact MLB players from WBC roster, including Lindor, Correa, for injury, insurance, suspension reasons<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico has produced so many brilliant baseball players in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a shame many of them can&#8217;t take part in the World Baseball Classic&#8217;s 2026 edition. Team PR&#8217;s WBC roster is far from its full strength group.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico even considered at one point dropping out of the tournament, but that didn&#8217;t happen, and they open action in pool play on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick look at the main players Puerto Rico is missing.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\/news\/mets-phenom-ate-900-raw-eggs-month-100-mph-fastball\/aa02b0d704f266777fc314c7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:This Mets phenom ate 900 raw eggs in a month to develop his 100 MPH fastball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">This Mets phenom ate 900 raw eggs in a month to develop his 100 MPH fastball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which players is Puerto Rico missing at WBC?<\/p>\n<p>The list is likely longer than this, but among the sure-thing selections are eight obvious absences:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Lindor and Correa are the two headliners. They both were denied insurance coverage for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>It became a moot point for Lindor when he broke a hamate bone early in the spring, so he would&#8217;ve missed out either way.<\/p>\n<p>Baez is absent because he had a positive marijuana test during the last tourney that keeps him suspended from this one.<\/p>\n<p>Berrios, Caratini, Pagan and Diaz all had insurance issues, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, the Dodgers&#8217; utility guy, had to pull off of the roster after having elbow surgery.<\/p>\n<p>All told, a lot of big names that aren&#8217;t able to take part.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico is missing 8 impact MLB players from WBC roster, including Lindor, Correa, for injury, insurance, suspension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[54364,64,63,260883,30524,5138,183434,166011,1828,175779,16084,591,41634,85,16058,143382],"class_list":{"0":"post-523841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alexis-diaz","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-baseball-players","12":"tag-carlos-correa","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-emilio-pagan","15":"tag-enrique-hernandez","16":"tag-francisco-lindor","17":"tag-javier-baez","18":"tag-jose-berrios","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-puerto-rico","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-victor-caratini","23":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523841","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=523841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}