Men's Baseball WBSC World Baseball Classic 2026 Road to LA 2028

[Olympicsnell 333]

19 hours ago, copravolley said:

It's a shame there's no Olympic qualification for Europe here... Italy is by far the best European team with this lineup from this tournament, and at the European Championships we lost to the Netherlands in the final. Hopefully, we can maintain this current lineup until the Olympic qualification.

no chance im afraid, because the mlb wont release players during the season 

[phelps 8,684]

5 hours ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

So less than 12 hours to go to for the controversial final to start rigged in favour of 

 

 

Funny how WBC held every 4 years has almost the same teams in same groups, controversial decisions in semis aside ensures such unjust final.

 

Thanks to tournament rules, Team USA, having played Sunday and getting the day off Monday, has a pitching advantage. Every USA pitcher is technically eligible to pitch. Venezuela, meanwhile, will be limited by back-to-back rules.

 

It doesn't quite seem fair to have a setup like this. Hopefully no baseball after 2028. Olympics doesn't need such unfair sports.

actually, in a short span like in this tournament, it's a lot better to play in 2 consecutive days and keep the daily routine than having a day off

the only issue might be the rules about pitching, but this time they don 't have any influence since no Venezuelan pitcher threw more than 39 pitches last night and therefore they are all available tonight 

remember that baseball sometimes also plays doubleheaders (with only 30/60 min break between 2 matches)

playing in consecutive days is the rule, not an exception for those players

Edited 45 minutes ago by phelps

[JoshMartini007 2,858]

Yup 162 matches over 195 days during the regular season.

 

7 matches over 13 days is nothing to these players