World Baseball Classic Preview & Predictions!

Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast)

Jomboy Media

Baseball, Sports

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Save on essentials. Save the everyday with Amazon. https://www.amazon.com Book your next trip at https://www.bestwestern.com Use our code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/TALKIN2026. Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Coach Trev is joined by Jomboy Media’s WBC Correspondent Joez McFly to break down the World Baseball Classic rosters, who has the best team and they make their predictions on who will win! Who do you have winning the World Baseball Classic? 0:00 Intro 4:10 Rules and how to watch WBC 5:20 Pool Play 14:00 Insurance problems with Puerto Rico 16:00 Nolan Arenado 18:45 Puerto Rico’s roster 22:20 What’s going on with Cuba’s roster 23:50 Canada 25:00 Pool B 25:45 USA 28:50 Mexico 30:30 Italy 32:00 Brazil 34:38 Ohtani can’t pitch 36:30 Japan is a force 37:00 Korea 38:44 Australia 40:44 Pool D 41:00 Netherlands 41:55 Venezuela 42:45 Dominican Republic 47:33 Carlos Santana 47:40 Israel 48:21 Odds to win 50:25 Predictions

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to talking baseball.
0:05.4	Jake's gone.
0:06.4	It's an all-unk episode.
0:08.4	We're talking WBC.
0:11.3	Let's roll.
0:16.0	You got a pitch to me, Jose.
0:20.9	Just like in the warehouse.
0:26.2	What is up, everybody?
0:29.1	Man, it feels good to see your face on the screen.
0:31.7	As I mentioned, no Jake's story alley today.
0:34.6	We got our guy Joe's McFly filling in.
0:37.4	I think Jake died in the great blizzard of
0:40.4	2026. Is that what happened, Joe's? I hope not. I saw him go out to 7-Eleven last night. He was getting a
0:48.8	banana and a protein bar and it looked like, it looked like a snow globe like everything was white it was crazy um but
0:56.5	hopefully he's he didn't die people but he's not not a good time to travel yeah now we got our
1:03.1	guy here it's not a good time to travel so uh especially up here in the northeast so a lot of snow
1:10.3	heavy snow.
1:11.5	So that's where we're at right now.
1:13.3	We will not be having snow.
1:14.9	I don't think anywhere that's hosting the WBC pool play.
1:20.1	And that's what this episode is going to be about today.
1:23.2	We're going to run you guys down, kind of like the format, where to watch, the roster, some of the storylines.
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