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Yankees’ Cortes Will Not Play For Team USA at World Baseball Classic

 Leif Skodnick - World Baseball Network  |    Feb 13th, 2023 8:33pm EST

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Nestor Cortes won’t be wearing the red, white, and blue in the World Baseball Classic.

The Yankees lefthander will miss the World Baseball Classic with a hamstring injury, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reported on Monday. Rosenthal noted that  

Multiple outlets reported that Cortes’ injury is merely a tweak and that the lefty hopes to start the regular season on time.

Nestor Cortes is out of WBC for Team USA due to a low Grade 2 right hamstring strain, says he’s hopeful of starting the season on time in Yankees rotation. Story to follow. pic.twitter.com/nNHLYpNifJ

— Pete Caldera (@pcaldera) February 13, 2023

Cortes, 28, missed time last season with a groin injury, and left Game Four of last year’s ALCS against Houston after reaggravating that injury. 

He’ll be replaced on the United States roster by Colorado Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland, according to MLB.com.