was ineligible for coverage following two elbow surgeries in the past three offseasons<\/a>. <\/p>\nJose Altuve was also among those denied insurance coverage, removing him from the tournament.<\/p>\n
Lindor and the Mets are all too familiar with the insurance ramifications after Edwin D\u00edaz tore the patellar tendon in his right knee during an on-field celebration with Team Puerto Rico during the 2023 WBC. <\/p>\n
The All-Star closer underwent season-ending surgery, but received his full salary through insurance.<\/p>\n
Soto appeared in four games for the Dominican Republic in the 2023 WBC and finished 6-for-15 (.400) with two homers and a 1.500 OPS.<\/p>\n
He will be joined on this year\u2019s Dominican squad by Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr., Julio Rodr\u00edguez, Ketel Marte and Manny Machado, among others.<\/p>\n
The Mets have been well represented in the tournament since its inception, most notably by David Wright, who earned the \u201cCaptain America\u201d moniker for his WBC heroics. <\/p>\n
The team sent Lindor, D\u00edaz, Pete Alonso, Eduardo Escobar and Brooks Raley to the 2023 WBC.<\/p>\n
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McLean will be a Mets focal point for Team USA in this year\u2019s event after the rookie dominated in eight starts following his call-up late last season. <\/p>\n
Holmes will also be a first-time participant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity that you never really know if you\u2019re going to get again,\u201d Holmes said in December. \u201cFor me, just looking at the whole workload stuff and kind of where I was at in spring training last year, I feel like I was going to do the same workload this year, the same buildup and it really put me on track to do not much different this year, even with the WBC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 biggest star will be among those on display during next month\u2019s World Baseball Classic. Juan Soto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20390,20,9,11,320,10,319,40723],"class_list":{"0":"post-119646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-juan-soto","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Juan Soto hits a single during the Mets\u2019 Sept. 16 game. Charles Wenzelberg<\/p>\n