{"id":538654,"date":"2026-01-26T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538654\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T09:13:12","slug":"samurai-japan-adds-mlb-stars-as-it-prepares-for-wbc-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/538654\/","title":{"rendered":"Samurai Japan adds MLB stars as it prepares for WBC title defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samurai Japan filled out its roster for the World Baseball Classic on Monday, adding an infusion of MLB talent to the team as it prepares to take aim at a second consecutive title this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 new players, headlined by Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and reigning World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, bring Japan\u2019s roster to 29, with one final player, likely another MLB star, to be named later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve trained during the offseason to get myself in condition to compete at the WBC,\u201d Yamamoto said in a statement released by Samurai Japan. \u201cTogether with my fantastic teammates and our reliable staff, we will aim to be No. 1.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samurai Japan filled out its roster for the World Baseball Classic on Monday, adding an infusion of MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,35648,71236,4,71237,35650,105,468,4820,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-538654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-hirokazu-ibata","10":"tag-hiroya-miyagi","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-ryuhei-sotani","13":"tag-samurai-japan","14":"tag-seiya-suzuki","15":"tag-shohei-ohtani","16":"tag-world-baseball-classic","17":"tag-yoshinobu-yamamoto"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115960637695600535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538654","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=538654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}