Major League Baseball is on indefinite hiatus because of the growing coronavirus threat, and Opening Day has already been pushed back to mid-May. It could be pushed back even further depending how the next few weeks unfold. I feel confident, perhaps irrationally so, that we will have baseball at some point in 2020. I just don't know exactly when.The good news is 2021 promises to bring us extra baseball as a World Baseball Cla sic season. , which will feature 20 teams for the first time. The 16 competitors from the 2017 WBC have automatic bids into the 2021 WBC, and four other spots will be up for grabs in upcoming qualifying events.Australia, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Israel, Italy, Esa Lindell Jersey Japan, Netherlands, South Korea, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the United States, and Venezuela are locked into spots. Brazil, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Panama, Philippines, Nicaragua, Pakistan, South Africa, and Spain will compete in qualifying events. , who led Team USA to WBC gold in 2017, . He calls it the "Dream Team" and has secured commitments from 2017 teammates and , among others. has struggled to get big names in the WBC in the past. Stroman doesn't seem to want to take "no" for an answer. The 2021 WBC rosters won't be announced until next spring, but that won't stop us from putting together a Dream Team roster right now. . A lot can and will change the next few months and that's OK. Here is my Team USA 28-man roster one year out from the 2021 WBC. Catchers (2) , J.T. Realmuto, I was very tempted to take prospect and 2019 No. 1 draft pick over Garver. Rutschman is the best catching prospect since , but 2021 might be a little too early for him. If we were putting together a 2022 WBC roster, then yeah, I'd take him. For now, it's Garver backing up Realmuto, the game's best all-around catcher and perhaps the easiest call at any single position on Team USA. and are next in line behind the plate. 2017 WBC catchers (2): , Buster Posey Infielders (7) , , , , , Mets , , The WBC is a fun event and I'm putting an emphasis on fun with Brian Bellows Men Jersey my roster. Anderson is awesome and exciting to watch, so he's in. Muncy pimps home runs like few others and the WBC is an event made for guys like him. The WBC is appointment viewing for bat flip aficionados. McNeil is easy to love because he puts everything in play and goes all out, all the time. Alonso socks dingers and has quickly established himself as a great amba sador for the sport. Bregman, Chapman, and Story are simply among the game's best players. As for positional coverage, we have Alonso and Muncy at first base, McNeil and Muncy at second base, Anderson and Story at shortstop, and Bregman and Chapman at third base. Bregman can also slide over to shortstop, if nece sary, and McNeil can handle third base as well. He's also our emergency outfielder after playing 71 games in left and 42 games in right last season. Two great options at each position Stephen Johns Women Jersey with good backup plans beyond that as well. Apologies to , , , , , , and , among others. They are all WBC worthy ballplayers who are left on the outside looking in at my roster. 2017 WBC infielders (8): Nolan Arenado, Alex Bregman, , , , Eric Hosmer, , Outfielders (5) , Dodgers , Dodgers , , Christian Yelich, If those five players all get abducted by little green aliens and have to mi s the 2021 WBC, Team USA could still trot out an outfield that includes , , , and , with and next in line. Don't sleep on either. If that long awaited breakout comes in 2020, Buxton could force his way into Team USA's starting outfield next spring. Otherwise Bellinger, Betts, Trout, and Yelich are the four titans of American-born outfielders right now. They have won the last four MVPs (Trout and Betts in the AL, Bellinger and Yelich in the NL) and are all primed-aged superstars. Putting all four on our roster is an easy call. As for Merrifield, he's a great all-around player and very versatile. He can play pretty much anywhere and provide a speed and contact element off the bench. Merrifield could factor into the second base picture as well. 2017 WBC outfielders (4): , , , Christian Yelich For fun, here's how I would build Team USA's starting lineup given our rosters above (WBC managers have not been announced, so we don't know who will be building Team USA's real lineups just yet): RF Mookie BettsLF Christian YelichCF Mike TroutDH Cody Bellinger1B Pete Alonso3B Matt Chapman2B Max Muncy SS Trevor StoryC J.T. RealmutoThe top four comes together pretty easily, I believe, and Alonso's power makes him a natural fit for the No. 5 spot. You could put the other players in the Nos. 6-9 spots in any order and I wouldn't argue. There are no wrong answers there. For what it's worth, when you plug that lineup into the with , you get an average of 6.63 runs per game. That's close to a 1,100-run lineup in a 162-game season. Starting Pitchers (4) RHP , RHP , Mets RHP , RHP Marcus Stroman, Mets I desperately wanted to get into the rotation -- I Antoine Roussel Kids Jersey love Bieber and think he'll soon be an undisputed top five starter in the game -- but Stroman was great during the 2017 WBC and he's been a great amba sador for the event and USA Baseball, so I'm cool with giving him a spot in the rotation. Cole and deGrom are no-brainers and the third rotation spot came down to Bieber or Flaherty. You pick one and I'll happily take the other. No wrong answer there. The big names among the second tier Team USA starters are and co-aces and . All great! Scherzer and Verlander will be 36 and 38, respectively, when the 2021 WBC rolls around though, and age-related decline could soon begin. Strasburg is unbelievable in big moments -- he owns a 1.46 ERA with 71 strikeouts in 55 1/3 career postseason innings -- and can be on my team Andrej Sekera Women Jersey any day. For me, his injury history puts him behind Flaherty. Other notable American-born pitchers include up-and-comers and , old reliables like , , and , and other big names like , , and . A repeat of 2019 in 2020 would put , , and on my WBC radar as well. 2017 WBC starters (4): , , , Relief Pitchers (9) RHP , LHP , White Sox RHP , Yankees LHP , Brewers RHP , RHP , Astros LHP , Twins LHP Will Smith, RHP , No position in the sport is more volatile than relief pitcher. At this time last year guys like , , and would have been shoo-ins for the WBC. Now? Not so much. A lot changes in the bullpen world each year and that will again be true in 2020. Our proposed bullpen is subject to change moreso than any other position by a factor of about 10. Hader and Yates have been arguably the two most dominant relievers in baseball the last two seasons. I'd use Yates as the closer and employ Hader as a fireman, that guy who comes into big situations to get a key strikeout. Green, Pre sly, and Smith have been among the game's best late-inning relievers the last few years, Anderson and