{"id":406635,"date":"2026-01-13T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:31:08","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-utilityman-ernie-clement-joins-united-states-for-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406635\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays utilityman Ernie Clement joins United States for World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ernie-clement\/915732\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ernie-clement\/915732\" target=\"_blank\">Ernie Clement<\/a> is suiting up for his country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> utilityman is the latest player to join the United States for the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Rochester, NY, the 29-year-old Clement is headed into his sixth big-league season and fourth with the Jays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He appeared in 157 games last season, batting .277 with 151 hits, nine home runs and 50 runs batted in with an OPS of .711 and a 4.3 WAR. Clement had a monster postseason in the team\u2019s run to the World Series, setting a new major league record with 30 hits, including 12 in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Clement avoided arbitration with the Blue Jays last week, agreeing to a one-year, $4.6 million contract. The Virginia product is under team control through 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Team USA will compete in Pool B alongside Mexico, Italy, Great Britain and Brazil. They open their tournament on March 6 against Brazil at Houston\u2019s Daikin Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ernie Clement is suiting up for his country. The Toronto Blue Jays utilityman is the latest player to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[712,49,48,167711,462,82,75156],"class_list":{"0":"post-406635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-ernie-clement-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-915732","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406635","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=406635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}