{"id":558301,"date":"2026-02-06T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/558301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:04:15","slug":"mets-news-here-are-the-mets-on-2026-world-baseball-classic-rosters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/558301\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets News: Here are the Mets on 2026 World Baseball Classic rosters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fnews%2F2026-world-baseball-classic-rosters-unveiled\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">full rosters<\/a> for the 2026 World Baseball Classic were revealed on Monday, featuring 17 different Mets players across the tournament\u2019s 20 teams. It\u2019s the most players the Mets have ever had rostered in a WBC, beating their previous record of 16 set in 2009 and matched in 2023. The following is a list of all 17 Mets, in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">* = Has played at the major league level<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u2020 = Currently on the Mets\u2019 40-Man Roster<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Notable former Mets participating in the WBC include Harrison Bader (Israel), Edwin D\u00edaz (Puerto Rico), Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez (Venezuela), Amed Rosario (Dominican Republic), Luis Severino (Dominican Republic), Gregory Soto (Dominican Republic), and Taijuan Walker (Mexico). Francisco Lindor and former Met Javier B\u00e1ez were planning to play with Team Puerto Rico for a third consecutive WBC, but Lindor was one of several players to face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7012509\/2026\/01\/31\/wbc-insurance-puerto-rico-francisco-lindor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">insurance issues<\/a> while B\u00e1ez was ineligible because he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7025845\/2026\/02\/05\/tigers-javier-baez-team-puerto-rico-wbc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tested positive for marijuana use<\/a> during the 2023 WBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Classic will kick off with the first game of pool play on March 5 (the night of March 4 in U.S. time), and the Championship game is scheduled for March 17 at loanDepot Park in Miami. The Mets will open their regular season nine days later against the Pirates at Citi Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The full rosters for the 2026 World Baseball Classic were revealed on Monday, featuring 17 different Mets players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4964,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-558301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mets-news","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116025247095336561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558301","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=558301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}