{"id":356368,"date":"2025-12-19T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356368\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:16:07","slug":"blue-jays-cody-ponce-weighing-team-mexico-offer-for-2026-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356368\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Cody Ponce weighing Team Mexico offer for 2026 WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-blue-jays\" data-league=\"mlb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/toronto-blue-jays\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> pitcher <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"de340e90-961e-4d93-bd05-845bae6f6eb8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/cody-ponce\/de340e90-961e-4d93-bd05-845bae6f6eb8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cody Ponce<\/a> is keeping an eye on the 2026 World Baseball Classic and is weighing an offer to play for Team Mexico, but has yet to decide on any future plans.<\/p>\n<p>The newly signed right-hander spoke to the Foul Territory Podcast on Friday and said that before committing to anything down the line, he first needs to talk with his new team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of right now, I am not 100 per cent sure that I do want to play,\u201d Ponce said. \u201cBut, as I am now a Toronto Blue Jay, I have to talk to my team and see what they want to do, and the best wishes for me from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Ponce signed a three-year, $30-million deal with the Blue Jays after spending the last five years pitching in Japan and South Korea, most recently with the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League.<\/p>\n<p>Following a run to the World Series, Toronto has had quite an active off-season. While retaining Shane Bieber for one more year, the Blue Jays also signed pitcher Dylan Cease on a seven-year, $210 million deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Ponce accepts the offer from Team Mexico, he would be joining a few new teammates, including Vladimir Guerrero Jr., George Springer and Jose Berrios, who have already committed to playing in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Cody Ponce is keeping an eye on the 2026 World Baseball Classic and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-356368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}