{"id":510826,"date":"2026-03-03T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:10:08","slug":"the-japanese-talent-to-watch-out-for-during-the-2026-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510826\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese talent to watch out for during the 2026 WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Baseball Classic is right around the corner. In addition to crowning the world\u2019s best baseball team, the tournament often serves as a showcase for players from outside MLB to put themselves on the radar to fans outside their home nations.<\/p>\n<p>For many fans, the WBC was the first glimpse of Japanese players Roki Sasaki, Munetaka Murakami, Kazuma Okamoto, Kenta Maeda and a long list of other stars.<\/p>\n<p>While Samurai Japan features more MLB-affiliated players than ever for this edition of the WBC, there are still NPB stars fans should keep an eye on for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 World Baseball Classic is right around the corner. In addition to crowning the world\u2019s best baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[202984,49,48,202986,202988,462,202983,202987,202985,82,202989,148306],"class_list":["post-510826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atsuki-taneichi","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hiromi-ito","tag-hiroya-miyagi","tag-mlb","tag-ryuhei-sotani","tag-shota-morishita","tag-shugo-maki","tag-sports","tag-teruaki-sato","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510826","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=510826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}