{"id":527691,"date":"2026-03-16T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527691\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:18:08","slug":"padres-say-mason-millers-availability-for-wbc-final-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/527691\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres say Mason Miller&#8217;s availability for WBC final TBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 16, 2026, 06:17 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4dec648c-3eb9-055c-aebc-2711f30975a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sd\/san-diego-padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Padres<\/a> manager Craig Stammen said a decision on the availability of All-Star closer <a data-player-guid=\"a612c014-c389-3057-849d-d820a0d7c361\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4730225\/mason-miller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Miller<\/a> for Team USA&#8217;s World Baseball Classic championship game Tuesday is to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Miller helped shut the door on the Dominican Republic in Sunday&#8217;s 2-1 win in the semifinals, securing the final six outs of the game. Stammen said the decision for Tuesday&#8217;s game will be made after evaluating how Miller is feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48219736\/usa-stifles-dominican-republic-offense-makes-wbc-final\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1629071_683x683_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not ruled out, not decided,&#8221; Stammen said Monday at the Padres&#8217; spring training camp in Arizona. &#8220;How we do with every pitcher, we evaluate them after their outing, see how they feel and then calculate when their next outing&#8217;s going to be. So he&#8217;s in that same boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miller has been instrumental to Team USA&#8217;s success in the tournament, securing saves in two of the team&#8217;s victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 16, 2026, 06:17 PM ET San Diego Padres manager Craig Stammen said a decision on the availability&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-527691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527691","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=527691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}