{"id":7182,"date":"2025-05-20T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/andruw-jones-will-manage-the-netherlands-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:34:39","slug":"andruw-jones-will-manage-the-netherlands-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/andruw-jones-will-manage-the-netherlands-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andruw Jones Will Manage the Netherlands in the 2026 World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League player Andruw Jones has been appointed as the manager of the Netherlands national team for the 2026 World Baseball Classic, as announced this Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It is a great honor to lead the Kingdom of the Netherlands team in the World Baseball Classic. I have worn the uniform as a player and coach, and now that I am entrusted with leading the team it is a great honor. I can&#8217;t wait to put together a great team with my coaching staff.<\/p><cite>Andruw Jones<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Jones, who was a gardener and participated in five All-Star Games during his 17 seasons in MLB, competed as a player for the Netherlands in 2006 and 2013. In addition, he served as a bench coach in 2017 and 2023.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Netherlands will begin its participation in Group D in Miami, along with the Dominican Republic, Israel, and Nicaragua, when the World Baseball Classic begins next March.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DJ3ptW3sKO2\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram ad<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League player Andruw Jones has been appointed as the manager of the Netherlands national team for the 2026 World Baseball Classic, as announced this Tuesday. It is a great honor to lead the Kingdom of the Netherlands team in the World Baseball Classic. I have worn the uniform as a player and coach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2648,1284,2649,1335],"class_list":{"0":"post-7182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-andruw-jones","9":"tag-manager","10":"tag-netherlands","11":"tag-wbc"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","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=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}