{"id":522632,"date":"2026-03-14T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522632\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T06:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:07:08","slug":"team-usa-replaces-clayton-kershaw-with-jeff-hoffman-for-wbc-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/522632\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA replaces Clayton Kershaw with Jeff Hoffman for WBC semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Clayton Kershaw will not be on the United States roster for the World Baseball Classic semifinals, with the retired pitcher being replaced by reliever Jeff Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. made the move after its <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wbc-united-states-canada-46b161d4087537adccb3ebded9ed9cad\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:win over Canada on Friday night;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;win over Canada on Friday night&quot;}\" class=\"link \">win over Canada on Friday night<\/a> in advance of its semifinal matchup with the Dominican Republic on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw, a three-time NL Cy Young award winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/clayton-kershaw-retiring-8b130f05c84a966b93118309a8498d63\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:retired at the end of last year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;retired at the end of last year&quot;}\" class=\"link \">retired at the end of last year<\/a> after playing 18 MLB seasons. The left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/kershaw-us-world-baseball-classic-31745f0a26ac2613ec4b8ef0d6f156af\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:came out of retirement;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;came out of retirement&quot;}\" class=\"link \">came out of retirement<\/a> to suit up for Team USA, but did not pitch in any of the team&#8217;s five games in the WBC.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Hoffman spent last season with the Blue Jays, where he went 9-7 with a 4.37 ERA in 71 games.<\/p>\n<p>Kershaw will remain with the team through the tournament despite being removed from the roster.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Clayton Kershaw will not be on the United States roster for the World Baseball Classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[103,9307,52757,363,173319,2074,99,42270,72364],"class_list":["post-522632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-canada","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-jeff-hoffman","tag-mlb","tag-semifinal-matchup","tag-semifinals","tag-sports","tag-team-usa","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}