Spring Training is just around the corner and so is the 2026 World Baseball Classic, which will begin March 4 in Tokyo and March 6 in San Juan, Miami and Houston.

A number of Cubs have already committed to play in the WBC, and there could be others going forward — not all the rosters have been finalized.

But here’s what we know as of now.

Matthew Boyd, Alex Bregman and Pete Crow-Armstrong will play for Team USA.

Jameson Taillon will compete for Canada. While Taillon was born in Florida, both of his parents are Canadian and he holds dual citizenship. Former Cub Owen Caissie, sent to the Marlins in the Edward Cabrera trade, will also play for Team Canada.

Seiya Suzuki will play for Samurai Japan (that’s the official name of Japan’s WBC entry). Interestingly, Shōta Imanaga — who started the 2023 WBC championship game for Japan — won’t participate this time. It seems likely he wants to devote his time to preparing for the 2026 regular season with the Cubs.

Daniel Palencia is set to pitch for Venezuela.

At this time those are the six Cubs officially announced for the WBC. It seems likely that Javier Assad will play for Mexico’s WBC team, as he did in 2023, but that hasn’t been made official yet.

Cubs minor leaguer BJ Murray, who played for Double-A Knoxville last year, will be on the Great Britain WBC entry. Murray is from the Bahamas, part of the British Commonwealth, so that makes him eligible.

Those are all the Cubs committed to play in the WBC at this time as full official rosters have yet to be announced. One potential very interesting development:

I have not heard anything since the time of that social media post about Anthony Rizzo saying yes — but neither have I heard that he’s ruled it out. That would be an interesting coda to Rizzo’s baseball career, suiting up one final time for Team Italy. Rizzo played for Italy in the 2013 WBC, going 4-for-17 with two doubles and six RBI in five games.

For Cubs fans, if it happens, this could go beyond just rooting for Rizzo. Team Italy is scheduled to play an exhibition game against the Cubs at Sloan Park on Tuesday, March 3. You can bet that would become a really hot ticket if Rizzo decided to play for Team Italy. As always, we await developments.