2023 is a World Baseball Classic year and rosters were revealed today on MLB Network. Maybe Padres fans weren’t as interested in the last WBC in 2017 but that was before we had a ton of stars.
Now San Diego will be seeing a ton of players leaving Peoria in March to go represent their countries. Here they are:
- Manny Machado (Dominican Republic)
- Nelson Cruz (Dominican Republic)
- Juan Soto (Dominican Republic)
- Luis Garcia (Dominican Republic)
- Yu Darvish (Japan)
- Ha-Seong Kim (Korea)
- Seth Lugo (Puerto Rico)
- Xander Bogaerts (Netherlands)
- Nabil Crismatt (Colombia)
- Julio Teheran (Colombia)
Nick Martinez had committed to playing for Team USA but he recently pulled out because he wanted to be ready to help the Padres as a starting pitcher at the beginning of the season.