Eugenio Suárez has a World Series pedigree, a fresh World Baseball Classic championship, and, by his own account, a fear that neither has managed to erase. The Cincinnati Reds third baseman delivered the ninth-inning double that clinched Venezuela's first-ever WBC title over Team USA, a tense 3-2 finish in Miami that arrived barely three months removed from the U.S. military operation that pulled Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from power and sent him to New York to face criminal charges.
Standing alongside Suárez this year has been Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas, a two-time World Series champion born in Los Teques, Venezuela, who has spent much of 2026 describing a similar unease — despite the fact that both men hold legal U.S. residency.
