{"id":223795,"date":"2026-05-04T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223795"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:54:28","slug":"blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-u-s-at-wbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223795","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays\u2019 Jeff Hoffman replaces Clayton Kershaw for U.S. at WBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Americans are making an adjustment ahead of their World Baseball Classic semifinal showdown against the Dominican Republic.<br \/>\nToronto Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman will replace Clayton Kershaw for Team USA, joining the team ahead of Sunday\u2019s game, per Sportsnet\u2019s Shi Davidi.<br \/>\nThe U.S. advanced to the semis after a 5-3 win over Canada in Friday\u2019s quarterfinal&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-u-s-at-wbc\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Americans are making an adjustment ahead of their World Baseball Classic semifinal showdown against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223795-blue-jays-jeff-hoffman-replaces-clayton-kershaw-for-us-at-wbc-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\/223795","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=223795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}