• December 3, 2012 - 6:28 PM

Joe Mauer will play for Team USA and Justin Morneau will play for Canada during the World Baseball Championships in 2013, according to a major league baseball Twitter feed.

Here are tweets from Monday afternoon:

David Wright & Joe Mauer are 1st two to commit to play for Team USA in @wbcbaseball. @mets @twins

— MLB Public Relations (@MLB_PR) December 3, 2012

Justin Morneau & Brett Lawrie will both play for Team Canada in @wbcbaseball. Robinson Cano & Jose Reyes committed to D.R. team.

— MLB Public Relations (@MLB_PR) December 3, 2012

The tournament begins in early March with the title game scheduled for March 19 in San Francisco.