Men's Baseball WBSC World Baseball Classic 2023

[owenp_23 564]

will now face tomorrow for the final spot in the World Baseball Classic 2023

[owenp_23 564]

Itʻs a party for ! They qualify for the WBC for the first time ever!

[Topicmaster1010 6,347]

Wow Nicaragua!  So happy for them. They played there best game when it mattered the most. Unfortunately, it looks like they'll be placed in the pool of death but just making it probably means the world to these players and the rest of the country.

[Topicmaster1010 6,347]

October 4th Scores:

 

 Argentina 5-6 Nicaragua

 Brazil 0-4 Panama

 

October 5th Scores:

 

 Nicaragua 3-1 Brazil

 

Congratulations to Panama and Nicaragua on qualifying! Heartbreak for Brazil on the other hand.

 

Prior to the start of qualification, , , , and  were the teams I wanted to qualify and I can't believe they all managed to do that. Panama and Nicaragua are both smaller countries where baseball is hugely popular, Czech republic was a growing program and even though GB had a lot of heritage players, they had a lot of young and exciting players to watch. Panama is making its first appearance since 2009 and the other 3 are making their debut.

 

So the field is officially set:

 

 Australia,  Canada,  China,  Colombia,  Cuba,  Czech Republic,  Dominican Republic,  Great Britain,  Israel,  Italy,  Japan,  Mexico,  Netherlands,  Nicaragua,  Panama,  Puerto Rico,  South Korea,  Taiwan,  United States,  Venezuela

 

Pools haven't officially been confirmed but they should look something like this

 

Pool A Taichung	Pool B Tokyo	Pool C Phoenix	Pool D Miami
Cuba	Australia	Canada	Dominican Republic
Great Britain	China	Colombia	Israel
Italy	Czech Republic	Mexico	Nicaragua
Netherlands	Japan	Panama	Puerto Rico
Taiwan	South Korea	United States	Venezuela

 

[Dragon 2,062]

4 hours ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

October 4th Scores:

 

 Argentina 5-6 Nicaragua

 Brazil 0-4 Panama

 

October 5th Scores:

 

 Nicaragua 3-1 Brazil

 

Congratulations to Panama and Nicaragua on qualifying! Heartbreak for Brazil on the other hand.

 

Prior to the start of qualification, , , , and  were the teams I wanted to qualify and I can't believe they all managed to do that. Panama and Nicaragua are both smaller countries where baseball is hugely popular, Czech republic was a growing program and even though GB had a lot of heritage players, they had a lot of young and exciting players to watch. Panama is making its first appearance since 2009 and the other 3 are making their debut.

 

So the field is officially set:

 

 Australia,  Canada,  China,  Colombia,  Cuba,  Czech Republic,  Dominican Republic,  Great Britain,  Israel,  Italy,  Japan,  Mexico,  Netherlands,  Nicaragua,  Panama,  Puerto Rico,  South Korea,  Taiwan,  United States,  Venezuela

 

Pools haven't officially been confirmed but they should look something like this

 

Pool A Taichung	Pool B Tokyo	Pool C Phoenix	Pool D Miami
Cuba	Australia	Canada	Dominican Republic
Great Britain	China	Colombia	Israel
Italy	Czech Republic	Mexico	Nicaragua
Netherlands	Japan	Panama	Puerto Rico
Taiwan	South Korea	United States	Venezuela

 

I'm puzzled on how the guys from the   are eligible for  ?

Only thing I can think of is that their parents were born in the Bahamas there before it became independent from Britain?

[Grassmarket 4,245]

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

I'm puzzled on how the guys from the   are eligible for  ?

Only thing I can think of is that their parents were born in the Bahamas there before it became independent from Britain?

Probably on the same basis that athletes from Aruba, Montserrat etc compete for us in the Olympics.

[Dragon 2,062]

2 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Probably on the same basis that athletes from Aruba, Montserrat etc compete for us in the Olympics.

I think you mean Anguilla not Aruba. You're just upsetting the Dutch there. 

 

But no,  Anguilla, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos are still British dependent territories. The Bahamas has been its own independent sovereign nation since 1973.

[Grassmarket 4,245]

1 minute ago, Dragon said:

I think you mean Anguilla not Aruba. You're just upsetting the Dutch there. 

 

But no,  Anguilla, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos are still British dependent territories. The Bahamas has been its own independent sovereign nation since 1973.

Yeah, but do they have membership of whatever governing body is what I mean?

[Dragon 2,062]

3 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Yeah, but do they have membership of whatever governing body is what I mean?

Yep. The Bahamas is a member of the World Baseball Softball Confederation.

 

 

[intoronto 6,842]

4 hours ago, Dragon said:

I'm puzzled on how the guys from the   are eligible for  ?

Only thing I can think of is that their parents were born in the Bahamas there before it became independent from Britain?

Citizenship rules are really relaxed.