{"id":605687,"date":"2026-03-04T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605687\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:03:27","slug":"which-reds-guardians-players-are-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/605687\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Reds, Guardians players are in the 2026 World Baseball Classic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixteen players from the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> and Cleveland Guardians<\/a> organizations will participate in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, which starts on March 4 with pool play.<\/p>\n

Eugenio Suarez, who is returning to the Reds this season on a one-year, $15 million deal, will represent Venezuela. The other player from the Reds’ 40-man roster in the WBC is Puerto Rican shortstop Edwin Arroyo, who is the Reds No. 8 prospect according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n

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For the Guardians, catcher Bo Naylor will suit up for Team Canada and reunite with his brother and former Guardian Josh Naylor. Two pitchers from the Guardians’ 40-man roster will also suit up: starter Logan Allen (Panama) and reliever Matt Festa (Italy).<\/p>\n

Guardians fans will get a chance to watch the team’s No. 1 prospect, Travis Bazzana, play for Team Australia. Bazzana joins two other players on the Columbus Clippers playing in the WBC (Dayan Frias\/Colombia and Stuart Fairchild\/Chinese Taipei).<\/p>\n

Additionally, two Ohio State baseball alums, Seattle Mariners<\/a> outfielder Dominic Canzone and Houston Astros<\/a> infielder Zach Dezenzo, will compete for Team Italy.<\/p>\n

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Reds infielder Eugenio Suarez will represent Venezuela at the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n

See the full list of Ohio representation at the WBC below.<\/p>\n

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Cleveland Guardians<\/p>\n

Travis Bazzana, 2B\/OF (Columbus Clippers, Australia)<\/p>\n

Dylan DeLucia, SP (Akron Rubber Ducks, Italy)<\/p>\n

Stuart Fairchild, OF (Columbus Clippers, Chinese Taipei)<\/p>\n

Dayan Frias, 3B (Columbus Clippers, Colombia)<\/p>\n

Ryan Prager, SP (Lynchburg Hillcats, Israel)<\/p>\n

Matt Wilkinson (Lake County Captains, Canada)<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Reds<\/p>\n

Edwin Arroyo, SS (Chattanooga Lookouts, Puerto Rico)<\/p>\n

Ivan Johnson, 2B (Louisville Bats, Great Britain)<\/p>\n

David Lorduy, P (Daytona Tortugas, Colombia)<\/p>\n

Ryjeteri Merite, P (Dominican Summer League, Netherlands)<\/p>\n

Eugenio Su\u00e1rez, 3B (Venezuela)<\/p>\n

Alexander Vargas, SS (Dayton Dragons, Cuba)<\/p>\n

Former Ohio State players<\/p>\n

Dominic Canzone, RF (Seattle Mariners, Italy)<\/p>\n

Zach Dezenzo, 1B\/3B\/OF (Houston Astros, Italy)<\/p>\n

When is the 2026 World Baseball Classic?<\/p>\n

The first game of the World Baseball Classic begins on March 4 when Chinese Taipei takes on Australia at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: 2026 World Baseball Classic to feature Reds, Guardians players<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixteen players from the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Guardians organizations will participate in the 2026 World Baseball Classic,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,867,42502,50,135,51,2565,28710,73259,21670,6512,92,538,54,94,4578,1452,4,65,1935,67937,42292,12569,4820,453],"class_list":["post-605687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-bo-naylor","tag-chinese-taipei","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-columbus-clippers","tag-dayan-frias","tag-dominic-canzone","tag-edwin-arroyo","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-guardians","tag-houston-astros","tag-josh-naylor","tag-logan-allen","tag-matt-festa","tag-mlb","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-stuart-fairchild","tag-team-australia","tag-team-canada","tag-travis-bazzana","tag-world-baseball-classic","tag-zach-dezenzo"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116171048242611952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605687","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=605687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}