{"id":559507,"date":"2026-02-07T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559507\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:28:14","slug":"brew-crew-ball-daily-question-who-wins-the-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559507\/","title":{"rendered":"Brew Crew Ball Daily Question: Who wins the World Baseball Classic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The World Baseball Classic is back in 2026, as Team Japan will look to defend their 2023 title after taking down Team USA in Miami behind Shohei Ohtani and Co. I ran down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewcrewball.com\/milwaukee-brewers-news\/76372\/a-look-at-the-milwaukee-brewers-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brewers\u2019 participants in this year\u2019s Classic yesterday<\/a>, but I\u2019m interested in who you think will win this year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Will Team USA be able to bounce back from their championship loss in 2023, or will Team Japan claim back-to-back titles? Can Jackson Chourio and William Contreras help guide Team Venezuela to a title?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I expect we\u2019ll see a 2023 rematch in the title game between USA and Japan, but that can be anyone\u2019s title. After all, it isn\u2019t a best-of-seven series: it\u2019s a winner-take-all game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Weigh in in the comments, and join us throughout the month as we keep these conversations rolling into spring training. Have a question you\u2019d like to ask in a future BCB Daily Question? Drop one in the comments, and we may use it later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Baseball Classic is back in 2026, as Team Japan will look to defend their 2023 title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,72545,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-559507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","12":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-discussions","13":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116029351957495533","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559507","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=559507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}