The formal release of the rosters for this spring’s World Baseball Classic named 16 members of the Seattle Mariners organization. That sum is the second-highest total of any club, trailing only the New York Mets with 17. Seattle’s WBC participants are as follows:
Brazil
RHP Pedro Da Costa Lemos
Canada
1B Josh Naylor
Columbia
UTIL Michael Arroyo
RHP Guillo Zuñiga
Dominican Republic
OF Julio Rodríguez
Israel
RHP Charlie Beilenson
Italy
OF Dominic Canzone
UTIL Miles Mastrobuoni
Mexico
RHP Andrés Muñoz
OF Randy Arozarena
Netherlands
RHP Dylan Wilson
Panama
RHP Abdiel Mendoza
South Korea
RHP Dane Dunning
United States of America
C Cal Raleigh
LHP Gabe Speier
In addition to these current M’s, no shortage of former M’s around the league represented. INF Donovan Solano will be playing for Colombia, RHP Thyago Vieira will be pumping fire for Brazil, towering RHP Phillippe Aumont continues firing for Canada, and RHP Erasmo Ramírez will defy father time for Nicaragua, among many others.
The World Baseball Classic will be played from March 5th-17th, with pool play in Houston, TX, Miami, FL, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Tokyo, Japan, and the final rounds in Miami.
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