{"id":7172,"date":"2025-05-20T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/world-baseball-classic-2026-confirmed-managers-and-cuba-pending\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T15:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:47:27","slug":"world-baseball-classic-2026-confirmed-managers-and-cuba-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/world-baseball-classic-2026-confirmed-managers-and-cuba-pending\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic 2026: Confirmed Managers and Cuba Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Baseball Classic 2026: Confirmed Managers and Expectations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As the tournament approaches, the excitement grows. Nineteen of the 20 managers who will lead their national teams in the eagerly awaited 2026 World Baseball Classic, to be held in March, have already been defined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only unknown at the moment is Cuba, which has not yet announced its official leader. This announcement is expected to be made in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confirmed Managers List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A continuaci\u00f3n, presentamos la lista completa de los managers confirmados, organizados por pa\u00eds y su grupo correspondiente seg\u00fan el sorteo oficial del torneo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia: Dave Nilsson (Group C)<\/li><li>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 Brazil: Daniel Yuichi Matsumoto (Group B)<\/li><li>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Canada: Ernie Whitt (Group A)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddfc Chinese Taipei: Tseng Hao-jiu (Group C)<\/li><li>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 Colombia: Jos\u00e9 Mosquera (Group A)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7 South Korea: Ji-hyun Ryu (Group C)<\/li><li>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfa Cuba: To be defined (Group A)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 United States: Mark DeRosa (Group B)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 Great Britain: Bradley Marcelino (Group B)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 Israel: Ian Kinsler (Group D)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Italy: Francisco Cervelli (Group B)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 Japan: Hirokazu Ibata (Group C)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddee Nicaragua: Sandor Guido (Group D)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd Mexico: Benjam\u00edn Gil (Group B)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 Netherlands: Andruw Jones (Group D)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udde6 Panama: Jos\u00e9 Mayorga (Group A)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf7 Puerto Rico: Yadier Molina (Group A)<\/li><li>\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddff Czech Republic: Pavel Chadim (Group C)<\/li><li>\ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddf4 Dominican Republic: Albert Pujols (Group D)<\/li><li>\ud83c\uddfb\ud83c\uddea Venezuela: Omar L\u00f3pez (Group D)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 edition of the World Baseball Classic will take place from March 5 to 17, with venues in Puerto Rico, Japan, Houston, and Miami, the latter being in charge of hosting the final phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each group promises high-level encounters and stellar participation from the best talents in world baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Baseball Classic 2026: Confirmed Managers and Expectations As the tournament approaches, the excitement grows. Nineteen of the 20 managers who will lead their national teams in the eagerly awaited 2026 World Baseball Classic, to be held in March, have already been defined. The only unknown at the moment is Cuba, which has not yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,2669,2670,2010],"class_list":{"0":"post-7172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cuba","10":"tag-managers","11":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}