{"id":203749,"date":"2026-01-11T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203749"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:58:09","slug":"skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203749","title":{"rendered":"Skubal vs. Skenes: Which ace should get the ball for Team USA&#8217;s WBC opener?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American rotation boasts the two best pitchers in the world. But which one belongs at the top of the totem pole&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/mlb\/skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usa-s-wbc-opener?utm_source=RSS\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American rotation boasts the two best pitchers in the world. But which one belongs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-scaled.jpg",2560,1440,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-1536x864.jpg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-2048x1152.jpg",2048,1152,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203749-skubal-vs-skenes-which-ace-should-get-the-ball-for-team-usas-wbc-opener-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}