{"id":533125,"date":"2026-01-22T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/533125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:45:14","slug":"toronto-blue-jays-righty-yariel-rodriguez-to-join-cuba-at-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/533125\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays righty Yariel Rodriguez to join Cuba at World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yariel-rodriguez\/1157892\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/yariel-rodriguez\/1157892\" target=\"_blank\">Yariel Rodriguez<\/a> is returning to the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Francys Romero reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/toronto-blue-jays\/238\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> have granted permission for the 28-year-old pitcher to represent his country.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: Yariel Rodr\u00edguez will join Team Cuba for the 2026 World Baseball Classic after receiving approval from the Blue Jays. <\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to report to the team on March 1 in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Rodr\u00edguez will work exclusively out of the bullpen, not exceeding two innings per game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francysromeroFR\/status\/2014404486781915243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Romero notes that Rodriguez will exclusively work as a reliever and is unable to exceed more than two innings per appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Camaguey, Rodriguez was outrighted off of the Blue Jays\u2019 40-man roster in early December. He will attend training camp as a non-roster invite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rodriguez joined the Jays ahead of the 2024 season on a five-year, $32 million deal. He had previously spent three seasons with the NPB\u2019s Chunichi Dragons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He appeared in 66 games in 2025 for the Jays. Rodriguez was 3-2 with a 3.08 earned run average and 1.151 WHIP over 73.0 innings pitched. He struck out 66 batters and walked 34.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After appearing on the Blue Jays\u2019 Divisional Series and American League Championship Series rosters, Rodriguez was not on the team\u2019s World Series roster.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yariel Rodriguez is returning to the World Baseball Classic. Francys Romero reports the Toronto Blue Jays have granted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[30173,5,377,2554,4,282,70,46737,2553,46744],"class_list":{"0":"post-533125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238","16":"tag-torontobluejays","17":"tag-yariel-rodriguez-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-1157892"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115940473187049858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}