Getting to represent your country in your respective sport is the highest honor an athlete can achieve. When you grow up wanting to become a pro athlete, the last thing you expect is to be given such an opportunity.
An opportunity that is so rare it’s hard to think of many reasons why players may choose to sit it out. With the World Baseball Classic slowly approaching, undoubtably Dodgers players would be invited to join with their unprecedented season and stacked lineup.
Four Dodgers have committed to joining the team, which include Mookie Betts, Will Smith and Trea Turner for Team USA and Freddie Freeman for Canada.