Men's Baseball WBSC World Baseball Classic 2026

[mrv86 3,163]

Nicaragua qualifies 

 

Another humiliation for host Taiwan, who still gets to play Spain for the other ticket.

[JoshMartini007 2,559]

Congrats  really happy for them.

 

I hope  can get it together, it would be weird not to see them at the WBC

[Topicmaster1010 4,422]

Day 3 Scores:

 

 9-1

 6-0

 

Nicaragua officially qualifies. Baseball is incredibly popular in the country so I'm really happy for them.

 

Taiwan and Spain will play for one more qualification spot on Tuesday.

[Topicmaster1010 4,422]

I've only realized now that Taiwan has just ONE player on their qualification roster that were part of the Premier 12 winning team last November.

 

According to a commenter on reddit, the Taiwanese management wanted to select younger players to give them international experience because they thought that qualification would be a breeze 

[phelps 7,779]

  On 2/23/2025 at 8:32 PM, Topicmaster1010 said:

I've only realized now that Taiwan has just ONE player on their qualification roster that were part of the Premier 12 winning team last November.

 

According to a commenter on reddit, the Taiwanese management wanted to select younger players to give them international experience because they thought that qualification would be a breeze 

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playing with fire 

 

really disappointing tournament for them, meanwhile very pleasant weekend for  

Edited February 23 by phelps

[mrv86 3,163]

And Taiwan makes it to the tournament.

[Topicmaster1010 4,422]

Excellent! The two teams I wanted to qualify qualified. Both Taiwan and Nicaragua live and breathe baseball and it would've been disappointing to see either of them miss out.

 

I have nothing against Spain itself but having their team qualifying would've been a joke. Only ONE player on the team was born in Spain. The rest are players from the DR, Venezuela and Cuba who had some great grand parent who came from Spain.

[NearPup 3,137]

Definitively the best possible outcome from a sporting standpoint. No disrespect to Spain or South Africa but neither are baseball nations, unlike Taiwan and especially Nicaragua.

[Topicmaster1010 4,422]

2nd qualification pool set to get underway tomorrow.

 

 Brazil,  China,  Colombia, and  Germany will be competing for the final two spots in the main tournament.

[Topicmaster1010 4,422]

Scores from March 2nd:

 

 2-12

 0-5

 

Standings:

1.  Germany: 1-0 (+12)

2.  Colombia: 1-0 (+5)

3.  Brazil: 0-1 (-5)

4.  China: 0-1 (-12)