WBC, Help or Hinder?

So with the baseball classic just over a week away i find myself asking the question will it help or will it hinder the Yankee players, would they be better staying at spring training and doing the usual work out with the team and the spring training games?

My innitial feeling is to agree with Damon when he said that it would just be like playing spring training games although these would mean something so it would prepare him better for the season ahead, and i would generally agree with this, i always question how usefull spring training games are in preparing players as if u look at the Yankees start last season it woudlnt look like the players were prepared, so in general i agree with the participation of the Yankee players who decided to take part

But...

I agree with players like Matsui and Cano and Rivera opting out of the event, why? well Cano because just how much playing time would he of got for the Dominican a team full of stars? i dont think a lot, and if u are going to go into a season as a starting 2B it would benefit u to be working out at legends field rather than warming the Bench for the Dominican. Matsui simply for him having to travel to Tokyo for the games, only being at spring training for jsut over a week and Rivera because it is well known that Rivera takes a bit of time to get into the swing of things and i dont think it will benefit him to have to leave training so go and play a inning or 2.

So i think that for some players the W.B.C will be a Help and for others (who cleverly opted out) it would hindered them more.