{"id":364142,"date":"2025-12-23T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:44:07","slug":"team-usas-projected-wbc-lineup-is-incredible-after-bryce-harper-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364142\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA&#8217;s projected WBC lineup is incredible after Bryce Harper news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA keeps getting better and better.<\/p>\n<p>When the American squad pulls up to the World Baseball Classic, it&#8217;ll be with one of the best groups of hitters ever assembled on a diamond. The lineup decisions are pretty much limitless.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news came on Tuesday, when Bryce Harper&#8217;s spot on the team was announced.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. didn&#8217;t need Harper, but now that they&#8217;ve got him, the roster is even crazier.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/chicago-white-sox\/news\/white-sox-munetaka-murakami-surprise-mlb-34-million-free-agent-contract\/8806a744a932f79434953bf7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">White Sox surprise MLB with Munetaka Murakami contract<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team USA projected WBC lineup<\/p>\n<p>This is an attempt to project a lineup based on the hitters we already know are on the team. Obviously, things could change between now and March.<\/p>\n<p>Corbin Carroll, LFBobby Witt Jr., SSAaron Judge, RFKyle Schwarber, DHBryce Harper, 1BCal Raleigh, CGunnar Henderson, 3BPete Crow-Armstrong, CFBrice Turang, 2B<\/p>\n<p>That leaves out Will Smith, who looks currently slated to back up Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>There will likely be a few more hitters added to the roster. Pete Alonso recently expressed his interest but said he hadn&#8217;t been asked yet.<\/p>\n<p>The pitching staff is also incredible, led by the two Cy Young winners, Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA lost in the last final to Japan. This group is hoping to avenge that, and all the talent has come out to try and do it.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team USA keeps getting better and better. When the American squad pulls up to the World Baseball Classic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364142","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\/364142","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=364142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}