Projecting a Dream Team USA Baseball Roster of MLB Players for 2028 Olympics.
It may only be four years before baseball finally gets its own “Dream Team,” in which case a big question will need to be answered:
Who should be on it?
Anyone who’s already lost only needs to know two things: Baseball will be returning to the Summer Olympics in 2028 after taking this year off, and MLB players may be allowed to participate for the first time.
This doesn’t necessarily mean whoever’s in charge will be able to pick anyone they want for Team USA. Though the ’28 Games will be conveniently located in Los Angeles, they’ll also take place in July—right in the middle of the MLB regular season.
This far out, though, there’s no harm in imagining what the ideal Team USA could look like in four years. And so we did.
Only American-born players were considered. Since the event is four years from now, an age limit was also applied.
With apologies to Gerrit Cole, Freddie Freeman and Zack Wheeler, anyone who’ll be older than 36 in 2028 was left out of the pool of possibilities.
We otherwise assumed that the Olympic squads will adhere to standard 26-man rosters, and focused the spotlight on the starting nine, the staff ace and the closer
