JUPITER, Fla. • Minor league righthander Corey Baker began Cardinals spring training no doubt thinking that the highlight for him would be leaving it — to join Team Israel in Korea for competition in the World Baseball Classic, which will begin next week.
Baker was supposed to be in the minor league clubhouse at the Cardinals’ complex. And he still was there Sunday afternoon as he prepared to pack his things for a flight that would begin Monday morning and get him to Korea sometime Tuesday afternoon.
For the first few days of camp, Baker was renting No.