{"id":628607,"date":"2026-03-17T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:50:18","slug":"royals-reacts-survey-does-the-wbc-happen-often-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/628607\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Reacts Survey: Does the WBC happen often enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Royals fans and fans across the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsurvey.co.uk\/s\/0DWS6R\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> to participate in the weekly emailed surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Last night, Team Italy played against Team Venezuela in what was the first semi-final appearance ever for Italy and the first in 17 years for Venezuela &#8211; despite the fact that Venezuela boasts the third-most nationals in MLB behind only the United States and the Dominican Republic. The energy throughout the tournament, in all four locations it has been played, has been absolutely electric with fans from all over the world bringing their own cultural flair to the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There has been a lot of talk about whether the tournament is being held at the correct time of year, with some people suggesting it should happen near to or replace the All-Star Game in the middle of the summer. However, the question I want to ask isn\u2019t about when the tournament should happen, but how often? Team USA lost to Team Japan in 2023 and they\u2019ve been licking their chops for a rematch ever since. Wouldn\u2019t it have been cool to see them get their revenge sooner, perhaps while Mike Trout was still available to play following the iconic finish of that match?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I know I\u2019d love to see Team Italy take another crack at Venezuela sooner rather than later, but as things stand, the next tournament won\u2019t be until 2029, and the teams could be comprised very differently by the time we get there. Ond\u0159ej Satoria is something of a folk hero for WBC viewers and Team Czechia supporters, but this was his second and final tournament at the age of 29. Wouldn\u2019t it have been nice to see the electrical engineer who struck out Shohei Ohtani on three pitches, finishing with a 72 MPH changeup, pitch more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,77247,2596,2595,4,252,72937],"class_list":{"0":"post-628607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansas-city-royals-discussion","13":"tag-kansascity","14":"tag-kansascityroyals","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-royals","17":"tag-royals-review-question-of-the-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116246021959177141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628607","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=628607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}