Team USA at World Baseball Classic 2023: MLB records, stats, titles and awards - full list

Team USA has named its 30-man roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic, made up of 15 pitchers and 15 position players.

With all 30 men playing in Major League Baseball, Olympics.com breaks down the MLB stats, records, and awards underpinning Team USA ahead of the 2023 tournament as the Americans look for a repeat championship.

Notably, there are two players on the 2023 returning from the 2017 team that won the WBC: St Louis Cardinals teammates Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt.

The Cardinals are also one of two teams – along with the New York Mets – with four players on the USA roster. The players represent 16 of MLB's 30 clubs, and between them have played nearly 15,200 regular-season MLB games.

There are:

• 18 all-stars on the squad (with 55 All-Star Game selections between them);
• 11 Silver Slugger winners for best offensive production per position (totalling 33 awards);
• 6 World Series champions, who between them have 9 rings;
• 4 home run title champions (who have led the AL or NL in homers a total of 6 times);
• 4 batting title champions;
• 3 Gold Glovers for best fielder per position (who have won an impressive 25 awards);
• 3 American League/National League Most Valuable Players (with a total of 5 MVP awards);
• 3 Rookies of the Year; and
• 1 Olympian from Tokyo 2020

Three-time NL Cy Young Award winner for best pitcher Clayton Kershaw was originally named on Team USA, but had to withdraw after failing to receive insurance clearance according to The Athletic. He was replaced by Nick Martinez – the only man on the U.S. roster who was also on the American team that won Olympic silver at Tokyo 2020.

The oldest player on Team USA is 41-year-old Adam Wainwright, who made his MLB debut in September 2005; the team's youngest player Bobby Witt Jr, 22, was just five years old then.

Team USA 2023 World Baseball Classic pitchers

Combined MLB regular-season stats:

• 3609 games played as a pitcher (1276 starts)
• 650–542 record
• 260 saves
• 39 complete games
• 36 shutouts
• 9999.2 innings pitched
• 9119 strikeouts
• 1.25 WHIP (walks allowed plus hits allowed per inning pitched)
• 3.65 Earned Run Average

Combined MLB awards:

• 10 All-Star Game selections
• 2 Gold Glove awards
• 1 Rookie of the Year award
• 1 Silver Slugger award

The stand-out pitcher on the roster had been the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw, with his three Cy Young Awards, one MVP Award, one Gold Glove, and five ERA titles, in addition to eight All-Star selections and winning the 2020 World Series. Kershaw was however forced to withdraw from the roster after reportedly being unable to obtain insurance clearance to play due to his prior injury history. With Kershaw's withdrawal, Ryan Pressly is the only pitcher on the roster to have been a part of a no-hitter in MLB (pitching as a reliever in two no-hitters).

Adam Wainwright – now the most experienced pitcher left on the team – has won the two remaining Gold Gloves among the U.S. pitching staff. In addition to being the oldest player on the team, Wainwright has compiled the most regular-season complete games. The Cardinals starting pitcher has both started and finished 28 games in his career (with 11 shutouts), and his 195 wins leads his teammates. He is also the only pitcher with a Silver Slugger award, having been crowned the best hitting pitcher in 2017.

Milwaukee Brewers closer Devin Williams, the 2020 NL Rookie of the Year, takes a dominant 2.03 ERA from 155.1 innings pitched into the WBC.

The three World Series champions on the pitching staff are Wainwright (Cardinals 2006), Lance Lynn (Cardinals 2011), and Pressly (Houston Astros 2022).

Team USA 2023 World Baseball Classic position players

Combined MLB regular-season stats:

• 11573 games played
• Combined slash line of .283 / .359 / .506
• 2171 home runs
• 6658 runs batted in
• 1158 stolen bases
• 4749 walks
• 9522 strikeouts

Combined MLB awards:

• 46 All-Star Game selections
• 32 Silver Slugger awards
• 23 Gold Glove awards
• 5 MVP awards
• 2 Rookie of the Year awards

Captain Mike Trout is perhaps the biggest star MLB has produced over the last decade he has been in the big leagues. The perennial MVP candidate, who has won three such awards, also leads his team in big-league home runs (350), walks taken (919), runs scored (1052), on-base percentage (.415), and slugging percentage (.587). On-base percentage refers to the number of times a player has reached base by obtaining a hit, working a walk, or being hit by a pitch, while slugging percentage assigns a value to each hit based on whether it was a single, double, triple or home run. By both measurements, Trout is leaps and bounds beyond not just his team-mates, but most of MLB.

Jeff McNeil, the reigning National League batting champion – the New York Mets utility infielder-outfielder hit .326 last season – also holds the best career batting average on Team USA, having successfully registered a hit on average 307 times for every 1000 at-bats. He is one of three men, including Trout (.303) and Trea Turner of the Philadelphia Phillies (.302), to hold a career mark over .300 – widely acknowledged as excellent (the league average in 2022 was just .243).

Turner, one of the sport's best fast men, leads the team in career stolen bases (230) and triples (36) and figures to be Team USA's likely leadoff hitter.

Right fielder Mookie Betts is the only man on the entire roster with two World Series rings (Boston Red Sox 2018, Los Angeles Dodgers 2020). The other four hitters with championship wins are Will Smith (Dodgers 2020), Turner (Washington Nationals 2019), Kyle Schwarber (Chicago Cubs 2016), and Kyle Tucker (Astros 2022).