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The World Baseball Classic, which was truly an exceptional experience, is now over. The attention turns more fully back to the wind down of Spring Training and the imminent arrival of the regular season …
The big question for the Cubs right now, in relation to both the WBC and the regular season, is whether Seiya Suzuki’s PCL sprain will prevent him from being available on Opening Day. The Cubs will see how Suzuki feels by the end of this weekend, and then make a decision on whether it’s an Injured List situation or not. The timing there matters, as an IL stint can be backdated by up to three days. In other words, the Cubs will want to know by this weekend whether they want to put Suzuki into the final few Cactus League games to ramp him up, or whether they need to hold him out so that they can backdate the maximum three days (and thus turn his 10-day minimum IL stint, effectively, into a 7-day minimum IL stint). Note that Suzuki CAN play in exhibition/intrasquad/simulated/ad hoc scrimmage-type games without it counting against any backdating plans. So if he’s close to ready to go by early next week, it’s possible that’s the route the Cubs would go to hedge their bets. Not that we can divine TOO much meaning from just a few days, with a week still to go, but so far, in the post-Suzuki-injury world, it hasn’t been Matt Shaw getting the extra starts in right field. Instead, it’s been more Michael Conforto than anyone else, which tracks a bit with my best guess on how the Cubs would fill a short/medium-term Suzuki injury. Not sure how you don’t have Daniel Palencia among the pitchers:2026 WBC All-Tournament Team! pic.twitter.com/7mmvnSWdVr
— Talkin' Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) March 18, 2026 Perfect in save opportunities, including the semifinal and final. Five scoreless innings. No hits. One walk. Nine strikeouts. He was basically perfect. Speaking of Palencia’s experience in the WBC, obviously it was wonderful for him as a Venezuelan, but, bringing it back to the Cubs, it’s hard to imagine it not being a very good thing. Assuming he came out of it feeling healthy and not having used too many of his high-intensity bullets, then you love the idea of him getting all the more confirmation that he’s an elite closer. If there’s any spot on the roster where you want a guy to have SUPREME confidence in himself, even when the evidence occasionally points to the contrary (as it always will in baseball from time to time), it’s the closer. More on Dansby Swanson’s offseason work and spring success here at The Athletic, which involves being more athletic in the box, though he’s not really getting into details about mechanical changes. Craig Counsell makes a good point about putting up good numbers in the spring, and one of the times it can matter: “The hard part about change is sticking with them. It gives you some validation to stick with them. That’s where it is relevant during the season. Because those things that you did during the offseason, if you were successful in the spring, you are going to stick with them for a longer time during the season. If you had just a ho-hum spring (after) making changes, that’s where it probably matters.” Very good point, and not something I’d thought about. Smart guy. When you consider that $68 million of his 2026 salary is being punted into the future, the disparity here is even more enormous:Shohei Ohtani is set to make an estimated $125 million from endorsements this year, the highest total of any athlete ever, and more than 10x what any other MLB player is earning off the field pic.twitter.com/fYVceZL7qj
— Lev Akabas (@LevAkabas) March 17, 2026Shohei Ohtani's single-year endorsement tally is more than any other athlete in the history of sports.Last year, Ohtani made $100 million from endorsements, a threshold previously reached by only three athletes in Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Stephen Curry, who each did it… pic.twitter.com/OAX206aVEL
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