World Baseball Classic
The World Baseball Classic is international baseball's biggest stage — players represent their home countries rather than their MLB teams, and this year Miami is where it all ends. Spanning Tokyo, San Juan, Houston and Miami, loanDepot Park hosts pool play March 6–11, then the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship game. The rosters are genuinely stacked: the Dominican Republic brings Juan Soto, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.; Japan — the three-time defending champion — fields Shohei Ohtani and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto; and Team USA, widely considered its most talented roster in WBC history, is captained by Aaron Judge alongside Bryce Harper and Paul Skenes. Championship game March 17 at loanDepot Park.