Blue Jays closer Osuna excited to show Mexico his skills at first WBC
Roberto Osuna can list a number of reasons why he chose to play for Mexico at this year’s World Baseball Classic, but two of them are identical.
The Toronto Blue Jays closer will make his WBC debut in front of his 14-year-old twin brothers, Pedro and Alex, as the Mexican team hosts its round robin group at Estadio Charros de Jalisco this week.
The younger Osuna boys still live in Mexico, roughly six hours by car from Jalisco. And while they’ve travelled to Toronto to watch their older brother play in person before, the older Osuna says having Pedro and Alex see him in a Mexican uniform will be special — not just for them, but for their friends, too.
“My brothers tell me how their friends come up and say ‘hey I watched your brother pitch last night, he did a good job,’ and they think that’s pretty cool,” Osuna said in a recent interview at Toronto’s spring training facility in Dunedin, Fla.