Ray Searage isn’t anti-World Baseball Classic, per se. He’d just prefer it if none of his pitchers participated.
That’s what Searage, the Pirates’ pitching coach, told MLB Network Radio on Wednesday (via Adam Berry). Maybe Jameson Taillon took his advice.
“I am not one of the guys that is in favor of the WBC. And the reason being, I’ve seen it over the years before on guys cutting short their rest periods for the winter and their workout routines and speeding it up,” Searage said.
“Now, this doesn’t hold true for everybody.