{"id":557262,"date":"2026-02-06T05:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557262\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:28:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:28:41","slug":"four-braves-players-will-participate-in-2026-world-baseball-classic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557262\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Braves players will participate in 2026 World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rosters<\/a> for the 2026 edition of the World Baseball Classic have been revealed and as it turns out, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. won\u2019t be the only Atlanta Braves representative at the WBC.<\/a> In fact, Acu\u00f1a won\u2019t have to wait too long to see a few of his teammates turn into opponents during Pool D action in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n

The Netherlands will have three Braves players on their squad for the WBC. Ozzie Albies, Jurickson Profar and Chadwick Tromp will be representing Honkbal as part of the Dutch squad. Cura\u00e7ao is part of the overall Kingdom of Netherlands, so that explains how they\u2019re eligible to put on the Oranje crowns, as usual.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll also be led by Andruw Jones in the dugout. This has already been an eventful offseason for Jones, as the Braves legend recently completed a ballot comeback by making it into the Baseball Hall of Fame despite starting with the lowest first-ballot votes of any player who eventually earned induction. So if you\u2019re a Braves fan who may not have any particular rooting interest outside of your particular country of origin or the United States, this oughta be the team you root for during this year\u2019s WBC.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. won\u2019t have to wait long to lock horns with his teammates. Venezuela is set to face off against the Netherlands at high noon on Friday, March 6. If you\u2019re into the WBC then that\u2019s definitely a game to circle on your calendar just based off of the Braves representation, alone.<\/p>\n

In other news, Team USA will have a little bit of Braves flavor in the dugout as well. Former Braves star catcher Brian McCann and former Braves manager and coach Fredi Gonzalez will be on (former Braves player, himself) Mark DeRosa\u2019s coaching staff for the American team at the WBC. Both McCann and Gonzalez are listed as \u201cAssistant Managers\u201d on the official roster page<\/a> for Team USA, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

Free agents Julio Teheran and Eddie Rosario will be playing for Colombia and Puerto Rico, respectively, so there\u2019s another couple of guys to root for here in Braves Country. I don\u2019t think anybody around here is going to forget what he did for the Braves during the 2021 Postseason, right?<\/a> Also, Julio Teheran needs no introduction around here as well, as he spent plenty of time pitching productive innings for the Braves over the course of his career.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re counting the coaches involved in this thing, there are plenty of guys who are either currently with the Braves or have been heavily associated with the Braves in the past participating in this year\u2019s World Baseball Classic. If we don\u2019t see either Team USA, the Netherlands or Venezuela (or even Colombia or Puerto Rico) make a deep run then here\u2019s hoping that the four Braves players involved all have a healthy tournament as well so that they can be ready to go for the regular season. Are y\u2019all looking forward to this? Will you be rooting for Team USA or will you be pulling for another country? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rosters for the 2026 edition of the World Baseball Classic have been revealed and as it turns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-557262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-news","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116022039402670693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557262","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=557262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}