"I can't now. My wife, we're having the kid. The baby's due right in the middle of the WBC. She said she would divorce me if I wasn't there for the kid."
"It was a little bit easier to go to work and know that you have something to play for, someone that's really depending on you outside of you and your wife."
"We've got a lot of little ones running around the clubhouse and everyone right now."
Mookie Betts announced the arrival of his third child with wife Brianna Hammonds. He previously skipped the World Baseball Classic due to the birth, prioritizing family over the tournament. Betts has two older children: daughter Kynlee, born in 2018, and son Kaj, born in April. The shortstop credits his children with providing motivation and purpose beyond baseball. Multiple Dodgers players are experiencing similar life milestones, including Max Muncy, Kiké Hernández, Kyle Tucker, and Freddie Freeman, all welcoming new children recently. This wave of births has created a family-oriented clubhouse atmosphere.
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