{"id":604397,"date":"2026-03-03T21:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/604397\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:52:21","slug":"world-baseball-classic-preview-cuba-vs-royals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/604397\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic preview: Cuba vs. Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Is it Spring Training? Is it the World Baseball Classic? It\u2019s both!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Today\u2019s Royals game is an exhibition against Cuba. Which is fun! I like these contests; it\u2019s not everyday that you get exhibitions against an entire country\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You\u2019ll also notice who\u2019s not in the lineup: Bobby Witt Jr., Vinnie Pasquantino, and Jac Caglianone. That\u2019s because they\u2019re elsewhere, with Team USA and Team Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Royals 3\/3 lineup<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, Cuba will field a roster headlined by Yoan Moncada as well as multiple other big league players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it Spring Training? Is it the World Baseball Classic? It\u2019s both! Today\u2019s Royals game is an exhibition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,69398,1351,5782,3723,231,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,3838,144,25,252,154,5824,2126,4820,3511],"class_list":["post-604397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-bill-streicher-imagn","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-citizens-bank-park","tag-cuba","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-royals","tag-ryan-bergert","tag-usa","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-world-baseball-classic","tag-yoan-moncada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116167464994951635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604397","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=604397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}