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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico<\/strong>\u2013 The Puerto Rican baseball legend Yadier Molina<\/strong> will once again lead the Puerto Rico national team<\/strong> as manager in the 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/strong>, as officially announced by the team this Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You may be interested in: <\/a><\/strong>Wagaman and Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez propel the Marlins to break the Phillies’ winning streak<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIt will be the second consecutive time<\/strong> that Molina, an icon of catching in the Major Leagues, leads the Puerto Rican team, after taking the team to the quarterfinals in the 2023 edition<\/strong>. With a brilliant career that includes 10 All-Star Games<\/strong>, two World Series titles<\/strong> and a reputation as one of the best defensive catchers of all time, Molina now adds experience from the dugout.\n\nMolina was also a key player in the first five editions of the Classic, standing out as a runner-up in 2013 and 2017<\/strong>, when Puerto Rico fell to the Dominican Republic and the United States, respectively.\n\nThe 2026 World Baseball Classic<\/strong> will begin on March 5<\/strong>, and Puerto Rico, currently ninth in the world ranking<\/strong>, will debut on March 6 against Canada<\/strong>, as part of Group A<\/strong>, which also includes Colombia, Cuba, and Panama<\/strong>. All games in this group will be played at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan<\/strong>, reinforcing the Puerto Rican home advantage.\n\nThe Mets’ shortstop<\/strong>, Francisco Lindor<\/strong>, will repeat as team captain<\/strong>, as in the previous tournament.\n\nWith experience, leadership, and a headquarters full of history, Puerto Rico aims high on its path to the coveted world title.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico\u2013 The Puerto Rican baseball legend Yadier Molina will once again lead the Puerto Rico national team as manager in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, as officially announced by the team this Wednesday. You may be interested in: Wagaman and Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez propel the Marlins to break the Phillies’ winning streak It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":471962,"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":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,671,41186,36807],"class_list":["post-471961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-puerto-rico","tag-theperiodicodelatruth","tag-yadier-molina"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1YMh","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/ad977c14-dd0b-2494-36fc-fd073c4d994f.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/ad977c14-dd0b-2494-36fc-fd073c4d994f.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471961","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}