Overview
- At MLB general managers' meetings in Las Vegas, Dodgers GM Brandon Gomes said the club has not yet discussed allowing Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki to join Japan for the next World Baseball Classic.
- Gomes indicated the matter will be taken up in future team discussions rather than decided immediately.
- Cubs head of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said WBC-related deliberations have begun and will intensify over the coming weeks.
- Reporting highlights Ohtani, Yamamoto, and Sasaki as the key Japanese candidates whose participation would require club permission.
- As context for the caution, Seiya Suzuki withdrew from Japan’s 2023 WBC roster shortly before the tournament because of a left oblique issue.