Seiya Suzuki embracing his World Baseball Classic opportunity as springboard to a big season for Cubs

MESA, Ariz. — The friendly trash talk has already started at Chicago Cubs camp. Eight players on the Cubs’ 40-man roster will depart next week for the World Baseball Classic to represent their respective countries. Should two of the favorites, Japan and the United States, meet in the WBC final, it would pit Seiya Suzuki against Pete Crow-Armstrong, Alex Bregman and Matthew Boyd. “I want to see ...