{"id":471824,"date":"2025-06-17T16:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/vladimir-guerrero-jr-will-play-with-the-dominican-republic-in-the-next-world-baseball-classic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:51:38","slug":"vladimir-guerrero-jr-will-play-with-the-dominican-republic-in-the-next-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/vladimir-guerrero-jr-will-play-with-the-dominican-republic-in-the-next-world-baseball-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will play with the Dominican Republic in the next World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.- Infielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr. confirmed his participation in the upcoming World Baseball Classic<\/a> to be held from March 5 to 17, 2026 in Miami and whose manager will be Albert Pujols<\/strong>.\n\nGuerrero, who was born in Canada, does not rule out representing his country of birth and with whom he plays most of the games with the Blue Jays, as he reported in an interview with The Score, where he revealed the reasons why he chose to play with the Dominican team.\n\nYou can also read: Albert Pujols announces his coaching staff for the 2026 World Baseball Classic | De \u00daltimo Minuto<\/a>\n\n\n

“Nac\u00ed en Canad\u00e1, pero crec\u00ed en la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana. Mi pap\u00e1 nunca fue a un Cl\u00e1sico Mundial de B\u00e9isbol. De ni\u00f1o me dec\u00eda que deb\u00eda representar a la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana si alguna vez ten\u00eda la oportunidad y crec\u00ed con esa idea. As\u00ed que creo que jugar\u00e9 con la Rep\u00fablica Dominicana, pero quiz\u00e1s, si no me retiro, alg\u00fan d\u00eda juegue con Canad\u00e1”,<\/p>contest\u00f3 Guerrero Jr.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nThe starting pitcher was registered in the Dominican team that played in the 2023 edition, but suffered discomfort in his right knee less than a week before the start of the event.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.- Infielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr. confirmed his participation in the upcoming World Baseball Classic to be held from March 5 to 17, 2026 in Miami and whose manager will be Albert Pujols. Guerrero, who was born in Canada, does not rule out representing his country of birth and with whom he plays most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":471825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[977,41301],"class_list":["post-471824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YK4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/toronto-blue-jays-infielder-vladimir-guerrero-jr.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}