Men's Baseball Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[phelps 8,286]

Israel will not even take part into the qualification process, since most of the MLB players who started for them in the last WBC are not eligible for International play under the IOC rules...

and in any case, without their best MLB/Triple A players (they won't be able to show up at the final OQT because it will be held when the US leagues are already playing their season), they don't even exist on the Baseball chart...

 

the Euro/African spot would eventually go to the Netherlands...they won't even have to bother of Italy, since the new boss of our federation is trying to destroy our National team by not calling anymore the US and/or South American born Italians...so, we won't be competitive at all also in that tournament...

Edited March 25, 2018 by phelps

[LDOG 2,468]

hace 11 minutos, intoronto said:

Its a shame baseball only gets 6 spots and sports like field hockey get double that.

 

A sport that can't get it's best athletes to participate doesn't deserve to be at the olympics, and much less does it deserve to have that many quota.

[NearPup 3,496]

23 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Its a shame baseball only gets 6 spots and sports like field hockey get double that.

I think Baseball would be deserving of 12 spots if the MLB sent it’s best players. Until then, it’s a hard no for me.

 

Also, keep in mind baseball teams are the biggest teams in the Summer Olympics, and the second biggest teams in the Olympics period (only men’s hockey has bigger teams, and by one athlete) at 24.

Edited March 25, 2018 by NearPup

[Jur 689]

Can't baseball teams be smaller? It looks like a lot of people....

hace 19 minutos, phelps said:

Israel will not even take part into the qualification process, since most of the MLB players who started for them in the last WBC are not eligible for International play under the IOC rules...

and in any case, without their best MLB/Triple A players (they won't be able to show up at the final OQT because it will be held when the US leagues are already playing their season), they don't even exist on the Baseball chart...

Same thing happens for Spain, who came second in the last European, beaten by Netherlands in the extra time. Most of our team is made by latinos born to spanish inmigrants and don't have nacionality so they can't play the qualifiyer...

[hoversaBR 622]

Thankfully, the US does not care about volleyball and does not have the best league in the world. 

 

[CCB 607]

41 minutes ago, EselTheDonkey said:

 

Is this certain? How can Israel represent Africa? They lost in the qualification for the European Championships 2019: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Baseball_Championship_–_Qualification

 

And now they are representing Africa just like that? Israel isn't even in Africa. It's in Asia. And in Sports, athletes from Israel traditionally are part of the European Federations.

Ah! I somewhere read that Israel was a representative of Africa. But if they played in the European qualification, it would really surprise me if Israel can play in the OQT for Africa. Thanks for this information!

[phelps 8,286]

53 minuti fa, Jur ha scritto:

Can't baseball teams be smaller? It looks like a lot of people....

 

no, because you need a lot of pitchers* to make a team...

 

*pitchers can't throw/play every game/every day...once you've thrown a certain number of pitches, then you need a few days rest before you're able to start a game once again...

and also relief pitchers, who normally throw a few pitches a game, once every 2/3 days of work they need a day off...

you just can't pitch when you're gassed out (and, moreover, it's very dangerous...the more workload you carry, the higher is the risk of injury...and especially for pitchers, elbow and shoulder injuries are lethal)...

[AlFHg 330]

here is the pdf version of the file

[Benolympique 2,414]

il y a 12 minutes, AlFHg a déclaré:

here is the pdf version of the file

I can not open the link

[Dunadan 1,103]

1 minute ago, Benolympique said:

I can not open the link

https://www.baseball.cz/download/2018/Tokyo2020_Qualification.pdf