{"id":626227,"date":"2026-03-16T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:06:53","slug":"guardians-news-and-notes-rocchio-to-team-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/626227\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians News and Notes: Rocchio to Team Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Brayan Rocchio will head to Team Italy for the semifinal to see if he can help push them to the final against Team Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rocchio is from Venezuela but has an Italian grandfather\u2026 so that\u2019s a fun level of intrigue for the Ides of March.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Petey Halpin hit a home run in a Guardians loss yesterday to the Padres. Tim Herrin looked good in relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Italy beat Puerto Rico and Venezuela beat Japan in the WBC. USA vs the Dominican tonight and Italy vs. Venezuela tomorrow night, then the finale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Guardians play the Athletics at 4:10PM ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brayan Rocchio will head to Team Italy for the semifinal to see if he can help push them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[146,5,6199,14433,49,135,51,2565,71302,538,33834,4,47158,66124,37145,8466],"class_list":["post-626227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-arizona","tag-baseball","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-camelback-ranch","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-glendale","tag-guardians","tag-italy","tag-mlb","tag-petey-halpin","tag-team-italy","tag-team-venezuela","tag-tim-herrin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116238066868202207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626227","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=626227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}