{"id":530970,"date":"2026-03-12T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530970\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:59:16","slug":"samurai-japan-still-faces-lineup-questions-despite-perfect-wbc-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/530970\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Japan still faces lineup questions despite perfect WBC record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Samurai Japan heads to the elimination round of the World Baseball Classic in Miami with a perfect 4-0 record, there are some causes for concern as the team aims to defend its title.<\/p>\n<p>In the first three games in the Tokyo round, Japan relied overwhelmingly on its three major league stars at the top of the batting order: Shohei Ohtani, Seiya Suzuki and Masataka Yoshida.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 25 runs Japan drove in over the first three games, 17 came off the bats of Ohtani, Suzuki and Yoshida, who have six, five and six RBIs respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Samurai Japan heads to the elimination round of the World Baseball Classic in Miami with a perfect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,208295,133041,17944,462,203524,1508,482,82,148306],"class_list":["post-530970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-hirokazu-ibata","tag-kazuma-okamoto","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-samurai-japan","tag-seiya-suzuki","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530970","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=530970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}