{"id":235814,"date":"2025-05-15T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=235814"},"modified":"2025-05-15T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:04:08","slug":"juan-soto-says-he-wants-to-be-play-for-the-dr-in-the-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/15\/juan-soto-says-he-wants-to-be-play-for-the-dr-in-the-wbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Soto says he wants to be play for the DR in the WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Juan-Soto-y-Samuel-Pereyra-El-Dia-918x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-235878\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Juan-Soto-y-Samuel-Pereyra-El-Dia-918x1024.png 918w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Juan-Soto-y-Samuel-Pereyra-El-Dia-269x300.png 269w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Juan-Soto-y-Samuel-Pereyra-El-Dia-768x857.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Juan-Soto-y-Samuel-Pereyra-El-Dia.png 1210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>New York Mets\u2019 Juan Soto has reaffirmed his commitment to be on the national team to the 2026 World Baseball Classic. The WBC 2026 tournament will take place across four cities &#8212; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; and Tokyo, Japan from 5-17 March 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made this Monday, 12 May 2025 during a press conference in New York City, where he was also officially presented as a brand ambassador for Banco de Reservas (Banreservas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am 100% available for the World Classic. As long as I am healthy and the team allows it, I will be there giving my all for my country,\u201d Soto assured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Mets slugger noted that he has been in constant communication with the Dominican Baseball Federation and with Albert Pujols, who is the team manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soto, 26, signed a historic contract with the New York Mets before the start of this season for 15 years and US$765 million, becoming the highest contract in the history of the Major Leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/eldia.com.do\/juan-soto-confirma-su-compromiso-con-dominicana-para-el-clasico-mundial-2026\/\">El Dia <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15 May 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Mets\u2019 Juan Soto has reaffirmed his commitment to be on the national team to the 2026 World Baseball Classic. The WBC 2026 tournament will take place across four cities &#8212; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; and Tokyo, Japan from 5-17 March 2026. The announcement was made this Monday, 12 May &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/05\/15\/juan-soto-says-he-wants-to-be-play-for-the-dr-in-the-wbc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235879,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235814\/revisions\/235879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}