Spring training years ago was a wonderful bargain.
Those days are long gone.
Six teams.
Want to look at WBC stat leaders after pool play?
I did, figured others might want to as well. So here you go.
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The toughest task in the wbc is a pitcher being asked to throw to 2B
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Yes. Barring 13 innings
Everyone i think we broke Tubi.
Alfredo Despaigne was a really good player.
If you just watched his 8th inning AB and nothing else I understand how that may seem impossible to believe.
Canada is six outs from advancing (along with Puerto Rico). Canada leads Cuba 6-2 heading to the bottom of the 8th.
And as @jonlschwartz.bsky.social notes, the same is true the moment Italy scores 4 runs. If the game doesn't go to extra innings, 4 Italy runs = US advances.
Yes. But with same caveats...if it goes 13+ innings, the numbers would change.
If Mexico won with 6 runs with 0 outs in the bottom of the 13th, then Team USA would be eliminated. If they won with 7 runs and 1 out in the bottom of the 13th to 2 outs in the 14th, USA is eliminated.
8 runs and 0 outs in the 15th through 1 out in the 16th, USA is eliminated.
(If my math is right)
If Mexico scores five runs tonight, no matter whether they win or lose the game, that would ensure the U.S. will advance out of pool play in the World Baseball Classic.
But it cannot be announced that way at the moment if Mexico scored 5 runs, because it's not a 100% certainty. (continued).
Whenever the U.S. does not control its own destiny to advance out of pool play in the World Baseball Classic, it's time for an emergency podcast.
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The video is back up. Very likely this was a lower level decision (at midnight) to take it down, and when everyone came in this morning, the video was put back up.
But in doing that, it created much more attention to it being down.
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The video is back up:
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MLB Network conducted the most significant/newsworthy interview in WBC history. They had a manager saying his team had advanced when they hadn't. And they took that video down as soon as they realized its significance and newsworthiness.
In that same interview Tuesday morning, DeRosa said he wanted to get Paul Goldschmidt into the game to get him some playing time.
Goldschmidt, who had not started any of Team USA's games so far, replaced Bryce Harper in the starting lineup.
Harper pinch hit for Goldschmidt in the eighth inning.
Where Japan just rolls through WBC opponents it is favored to beat, Team USA has a long history of slipping up, WBC after WBC.
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Very big numbers here for a qualifying round:
Very lazy of you to post the same photo three days in a row.
I get the interest in MLB players for the 2028 Olympics.
But the WBC is a much bigger/better international baseball tournament than the Olympics ever will be...here's why:
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What a last inning for Owen Caissie. Part of an amazing relay to throw out Enrique Bradfield and then an RBI double to cut the Panama lead to 4-3.
The D.R. is a fully formed baseball country. Brazil. Colombia. Czechia. South Africa. Australia. Great Britain.
Countries where baseball has a much more tenuous foothold is what i am talking about.
(Although Olympic baseball is more important for them for funding).
I would suggest that's a U.S.-centered perspective when it comes to the WBC. The value of the WBC in many ways is what it means for other countries. Baseball in Czechia and Great Britain has been boosted by the WBC. Those are the extreme examples, but it provides goals/builds baseball elsewhere.
Very much
Very much
Yu Chang has homered off Hyun-Jin Ryu....Taiwan 1-0 over South Korea.
SO MUCH BASEBALL
Francisco Lindor posted his reaction to the Puerto Rico walk-off home run to his IG story.
This is literally cooler than anything I've seen in any baseball movie
