{"id":1946,"date":"2025-04-14T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2025-04-14T21:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:05:12","slug":"judge-to-captain-usa-in-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/judge-to-captain-usa-in-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge to captain USA in World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Judge, who blasted 58 home runs last season and helped the Yankees reach the World Series, will be playing in the international team event for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old slugger did not play in the last World Baseball Classic in 2023, when a team led by Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout lost to a Shohei Ohtani-inspired Japan in the final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Getting a chance to have &#8216;USA&#8217; across my chest and represent all the great people in our country and represent what this country means, it&#8217;s a great opportunity,&#8221; Judge told MLB Network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never had this opportunity before, even growing up as a kid, so I&#8217;m definitely looking forward to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team USA will be managed by Mark DeRosa for the second consecutive tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Next year&#8217;s classic will take place from March 5-17 with first round group play split between Houston, Miami, Puerto Rico and Tokyo before the semi-finals and championship game take place in Miami.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge will captain the United States in next year&#8217;s World Baseball Classic, it was announced on Monday.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 23:05<\/span><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Modified: 14\/04\/2025 &#8211; 23:03<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n        <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 1 min<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"Part-GTY-2209232293-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Judge will captain Team USA in next year&#039;s World Baseball Classic\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-db"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}