Take it from Shane Victorino: New Red Sox reliever Jose De La Torre is ready for the majors.Victorino faced De La Torre only once, in the second round of the World Baseball Classic in March. But De La Torre, pitching for his native Puerto Rico against the United States in the seventh inning of a tight game, got the Sox ...

Orioles reliever Pedro Strop has had an ugly season thus far for Baltimore and some are blaming the World Baseball Classic for his struggles, MASNSports.com reports. Strop won't completely rule out the WBC as a contributing factor.  Strop pitched six times over a 13-day span in the WBC for Team Dominican Republic. He went 6 2/3 scoreless innings and gave ...