{"id":502049,"date":"2026-03-12T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-united-states-releases-skubal-wacha-and-yarbrough-and-adds-three-relievers-for-the-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:42:56","slug":"the-united-states-releases-skubal-wacha-and-yarbrough-and-adds-three-relievers-for-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/baseball\/the-united-states-releases-skubal-wacha-and-yarbrough-and-adds-three-relievers-for-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States releases Skubal, Wacha, and Yarbrough and adds three relievers for the quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The <strong>United States<\/strong> team made several moves in its pitching staff before the start of the quarterfinals of the <strong>2026 World Baseball Classic<\/strong>, strengthening its bullpen for the elimination phase of the tournament.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/cuartos-de-final-definidos-en-el-clasico-mundial-de-beisbol-2026\/#google_vignette\">Quarterfinals defined in the World Baseball Classic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe American team removed pitchers <strong>Tarik Skubal<\/strong>, <strong>Michael Wacha<\/strong>, and <strong>Ryan Yarbrough<\/strong> from the roster, who will not continue with the team in the final stretch of the championship.\n\nInstead, relievers <strong>Will Vest<\/strong>, <strong>Tyler Rogers<\/strong>, and <strong>Tim Hill<\/strong> were integrated, who will provide greater depth to the bullpen for the final innings of the games.\n\nSkubal had pitched three innings in the United States' victory over Great Britain on March 7, but ultimately decided to return to the <strong>Detroit Tigers<\/strong> camp and not continue participating in the tournament.\n\nThe additions of Vest, Rogers, and Hill offer new alternatives to the North American team manager from the bullpen, especially in closing situations, after the three limited opposing hitters to an OPS of .640 or less during the past Major League season.\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">World Baseball Classic Quarterfinals<\/h3>\n\n\nAfter an intense group stage, eight teams advanced to the knockout phase of the tournament. The quarterfinals will begin on Friday with two matches.\n\nThat day, the <strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong> will face <strong>South Korea<\/strong> at 6:30 in the evening at <strong>loanDepot park<\/strong> in Miami. Later, <strong>United States<\/strong> will clash with <strong>Canada<\/strong> at 8:00 at night at <strong>Daikin Park<\/strong> in Houston.\n\nThe Saturday's day will continue with the match between <strong>Italy<\/strong> and <strong>Puerto Rico<\/strong> at 3:00 PM, followed by the match between <strong>Japan<\/strong> and <strong>Venezuela<\/strong> at 9:00 PM.\n\nThe winners of each match will advance to the semifinals of the tournament.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2014 The United States team made several moves in its pitching staff before the start of the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, strengthening its bullpen for the elimination phase of the tournament. You may be interested in:Quarterfinals defined in the World Baseball Classic The American team removed pitchers Tarik Skubal, Michael Wacha, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186,41301],"class_list":{"0":"post-502049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-baseball","7":"tag-deultimominuto","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-major-leagues","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth","12":"tag-world-baseball-classic"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}