SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- One place is cold for much of the year. One place is hot all the time. Both places have bred some of the best baseball players on the planet.

Puerto Rico advanced to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals in Houston with a huge win over Cuba on Monday night. And before its game against Canada on Tuesday (where a win would secure the No. 1 seed out of Pool A), manager Yadier Molina announced that a two-time All-Star will

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Ask any baseball fan in Puerto Rico and they’ll tell you about the 2006 World Baseball Classic game against Cuba. How they lost in a crushing 4-3 defeat to the international superpower. How it was the loudest they’d ever heard Hiram Bithorn Stadium. How they’ve

Hiram Bithorn Stadium was alive on Friday night as the home fans cheered on Team Puerto Rico in its World Baseball Classic opener versus Colombia. The loudest cheers, however, might have come from someone watching the game on his couch. Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor, who is unable to play for

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican fans swayed and sang along to Marc Anthony’s “Preciosa” in the stands of Hiram Bithorn Stadium – a beautiful rendition of a song expressing a person’s undying love for the island. A sort of second national anthem, as many Puerto Ricans will tell

Team Puerto Rico won a thrilling World Baseball Classic matchup with Panama in San Juan on Saturday night thanks to a 10th-inning walk-off homer off the bat of Darell Hernaiz. One player who wasn’t there to witness his homeland's dramatic victory live was nevertheless exuberant in the wake of the

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – You could hear the crowd in the parking lot of Hiram Bithorn Stadium. You could see the traffic backed up on the highway from the second deck.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- By now, it’s apparent -- both inside and outside baseball circles -- that Edwin Díaz entering games to his Timmy Trumpet theme song is electric.

Get ready to dive into World Baseball Classic pool play. The 2026 tournament, which gets underway this week, features four pools: A, B, C and D. Each of those pools consists of five teams battling it out in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each pool then advance

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- If you thought JetBlue Park was full of prideful noise for Team Puerto Rico for Tuesday night’s 5-3 win over the Red Sox, wait until the squad gets to San Juan’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium. The vuvuzelas that were ever-present at a venue that is two hours

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Yadier Molina will return as the manager of Team Puerto Rico for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. As announced by the team on Wednesday, Molina will be Puerto Rico’s manager for the second straight WBC after guiding the nation to the quarterfinals of the 2023 tournament. Molina, a 10-time All-Star,

Edwin Díaz is back on Puerto Rico’s roster for the World Baseball Classic, three years after a fluke knee injury at the tournament ended his 2023 season before it could begin.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Heliot Ramos has officially joined Team Rubio. The Giants’ outfielder showed up to Scottsdale Stadium on Thursday morning sporting freshly dyed blond hair, a longstanding tradition for Puerto Rican players who get to represent their homeland at the World Baseball Classic.

Below is a list of the players in every Major League organization who have been included on the rosters for the 2026 World Baseball Classic. Pitchers denoted with ^ are part of the Designated Pitcher Pool (DPP), a reserve of up to six pitchers per federation that can be called

The World Baseball Classic begins on Wednesday, March 4, at 10 p.m. ET in a game between Australia and Chinese Taipei. It will kick off a fortnight of absolute madness, with the best baseball players on the planet highly motivated by patriotism, pride and plain old competitiveness squaring off in

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Over time, Omar López continues to add to his résumé as a solid baseball lifer. Managing the Cangrejeros de Santurce in the Caribbean Series at Guadalajara’s Estadio Panamericano de Béisbol this week, López already boasts three winter league titles. The first two were in his native Venezuela,

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Royals’ clubhouse was going through its usual pregame activity Tuesday afternoon when a jolt of energy suddenly seemed to make its way into the room. Salvador Perez was back. The veteran catcher and leader of this Royals team returned to camp after his World Baseball Classic

SURPRISE, Ariz., -- Standing at his locker in the home clubhouse at Sloan Park on Tuesday afternoon before a 6-2 rain-shortened win over the Royals, Marcus Stroman fielded a number of hugs from his teammates as they welcomed their starter back from Miami. After pitching for Team USA in his

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- In the moment, Francisco Lindor said, he did not see Edwin Díaz hit the turf. Still energized by Puerto Rico’s win over the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic, blissfully unaware of what was happening near the pitcher’s mound, Lindor spent his first few

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The bags were strewn across the Tigers clubhouse, between a set of chairs and a set of lockers. One bag was designed in the style of the Puerto Rican flag. Another looked more like a Tigers bag. It was a fitting scene that marked the return of

MIAMI -- As Mexico outfielder Alex Verdugo sat at the press conference podium on Friday afternoon at loanDepot park, he summed up the action that was about to transpire between Mexico and Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic quarterfinal matchup later that evening. "Everybody's ready to go out there

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After Japan’s 9-3 victory on Thursday, joining Cuba in the World Baseball Classic semifinals, the tournament now has only six teams left. On Friday night Mexico will play Puerto Rico in Miami for the right to play Japan on Monday, and then on Saturday the United States will square off

MIAMI -- The spectacle began 90 minutes before first pitch. As the gates opened, a sea of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans filled loanDepot park. “Dominicana! Dominicana!” chanted the loud Dominican crowd, banging on drums and playing güira, a popular percussion instrument that originates from the island. “Puerto Rico! Puerto Rico!”