Cubs' Jonathon Long withdraws from Team Chinese Taipei's WBC roster due to elbow injury

TEMPE, Ariz. — In the end, Cubs first baseman Jonathon Long couldn’t find a way to make hopping on an international flight with a still-sore elbow make sense. So instead of traveling to Tokyo this week to join Team Chinese Taipei for the World Baseball Classic, he withdrew from the tournament.

“You’ve got to look at it like, what’s the best long-term solution?” Long said Thursday. “Obviously, in the short term, I want to go. But we’re more inclined to push through something that we shouldn’t...