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Yeah, the Latin American countries in particular seem to have way more pride poured into this

Uptake of North American position players has definitely been faster than among North American pitchers Very different from Japan/Korea

I hope we get to see that in the World Series this year

What does a 0 mean then Cause this All-Star pitcher wears it

They just have so many more to pick from than we do

No Cole No Scherzer No deGrom No Manoah No Burnes No Strider No Fried No McClanahan The list goes on...

That's a real shame....

Nestor Cortes grade 2 hamstring strain Won't play at WBC "Hopes to be ready" for opening day https://www.mlb.com/news/nestor-cortes-will-not-play-in-world-baseball-classic

Sounds like he's happy with the team Sounds like they ONLY discussed a 3 year deal, not a long term extension

The tweet says "claimed off waivers"

Dammit I was hoping he'd make it through waivers

I love Andy Reid Even though he looks dangerously like a Saturday Night Live Bill Swerski's Superfan cast member. Daa Chiefs!!!

Yeah. Bad timing cause she's pregnant again for the second time in 18 months apparently. And it kinda sounded like she didn't really want to do it anyway despite agreeing to. Add it all up and you get a boring low energy show clearly lipsynched with studio vocals playing. It sucked.

Agree Game was amazing Last two minutes so ant climactic

Put $200 on Chiefs to win

Feel like their owner actually understands how to manage a team long term

Yeah I can certainly understand why the Rangers and Mets don't want DeGrom and Verlander participating Especially DeGrom

Once the again the USA doesn't line up as well SP wise as they could No Verlander No deGrom No Scherzer Betts Mullins Trout OF though is pretty gangster The IF is also killer

In all honestly what do you do with all these star SS/3B??? Nice problem to have! LOL Machado, Devers, Pena, Franco like FFS

As expected, the DR has to be the heavy favorite. Tough to beat this team: 1B - Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 2B - Jeremy Peña SS - Wander Franco or Jeremy Peña 3B - Manny Machado or Rafael Devers LF - Juan Soto CF - Julio Rodríguez RF - Eloy Jiménez C - Gary Sanchez DH - Probably Devers cause you have to use Machado over him at 3B unless you want to go 2B Franco SS Machado 3B Devers. Also have Nelson Cruz. Bench: Mejia, Segura, Adames, Teoscar Hernandez, Nelson Cruz and a bunch of others SP: Sandy Alcantara Framber Valdez Cristian Javier BP: Bryan Abreu Camilo Doval Cesar Valdez Diego Castillo Emmanuel Clase Gregory Soto Hector Neris Jhoan Duran Johnny Cueto Rafael Montero Yimi Garcia

Not bad at all, I agree Coaching staff is pretty cool actually though you're right about Whitt Ernie Whitt Manager Denis Boucher Pitching Coach Larry Walker First Base Coach Tim Leiper Third Base Coach Paul Quantrill Bullpen Coach Greg Hamilton Coach Russell Martin Coach

It's for real:

Happy birthday man!!

Check out every team's announced roster here: https://www.mlb.com/world-baseball-classic/teams

Starting this now to separate it from all the Spring Training news, discussion and threads that will be starting. A good preview from MLB.com: https://www.mlb.com/news/2023-world-baseball-classic-rosters It’s nearly here. After a six-year wait, the World Baseball Classic has returned, and it’s bigger than ever. That’s not hyperbole, either: The tournament field has been expanded to 20 teams, with three first-time participants in Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Nicaragua hoping for a Cinderella run. But they’ll need to get past Japan (looking for its third title), the USA (hoping for a repeat), the Dominican Republic (the pre-tournament favorite) and Puerto Rico (trying to win it all following back-to-back second-place finishes). Baseball is more of a global game than ever before, and that’s proven on the rosters: There are 67 MLB All-Stars, 186 players on 40-man rosters and 332 players under contract with big league teams. There are eight Major League MVPs in Paul Goldschmidt, Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Clayton Kershaw, Jose Altuve and Miguel Cabrera. In fact, 16 of the top 18 finishers for the 2022 NL MVP and six of the top 10 finishers for the 2022 AL MVP are scheduled to participate in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, with the reigning Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Munetaka Murakami and Korea Baseball Organization MVP Jung-Hoo Lee joining in, too. .........................