Each team can have players from the US but those players have to show/prove a lineage back to the country they're playing for. I believe they are doing that to try to promote a "world series tournament" in which years from now more countries will join in and it will broaden the popularity. As of 2023 there are 20 countries competing in three host countries; Chinese Taipei, Japan, and the United States, with the U.S. hosting two pools and the championship round. Japan looks like a powerhouse this year....
As of this morning, there are 5 teams left in the tourney. Japan will play Mexico, Cuba will play the winner of tonight's game- USA vs Venezuela. At this point, I think Japan is probably the favorite to win the whole thing.
i see why you would think most teams are just Americans. Alot of people think that baseball is only played in America but its the number 1 sport in a number of countries. Only a couple of these teams have mostly Americans, those being italy and Israel. Gb is about half and half. The asian teams are 100% homegrown with the exception of one American born player on China, south Korea, and japan (Alan Carter, Tommy Edman, and Lars Nootbar). Same thing with the south American teams and every other team with a few outlying Americans spread throughout. The two outliers are great britain and the Netherlands in the way that they get players from commonwealth nations such as the bahamas or curacao in the case of the netherlands.
Dude, America is not the only country in the World that plays baseball. My wife is from Ispwich, England, and I played in a baseball league in England. This Baseball World Classic is the FIFA World Cup for baseball. Think of Major League Baseball (MLB) as your Premiere League...all the best players from around the World play in the MLB, but these countries have people who grew up playing baseball in their countries.
Professional baseball teams in America have player from multiple countries. During this tournament they can play for their home country. There are professional baseball leagues in several other countries like Japan, Korea and even China. Baseball is also very popular in Latin American countries such as Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
From Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Caribbean and South America, virtually all the players are native born. For UK, etc... a lot of players with strong US connections. Strange sport in that it has taken root in parts o fthe globe you wouldn't necessarily expect.
Most of the players on team GB are American so is the Italian team, all the players on team Israel are american.the rest of the countries ;the players are from that country and its territories.
Outside of the United States’ 4 teams in the tournament (USA, GB, Italy, and Israel), all the players are from their countries. Japan is very good, maybe even better than the USA, so are a lot of the Latin American teams.
The problem is that baseball is too random you cant play just one game because anything can happen even the best team can be beaten by the worst team ,they should play at least a few games to get a more realistic outcome.
That's what the 162 game regular season is for. WBC couldn't be any longer, or it would run into the MLB season (as it already kinda does for the pitchers)
GB team is mostly in a gray uniform because they were batting in the top half of each inning, the traditional color of the visiting team the USA team is mostly in white because they were wearing the color of the home team. In other games when the GB team was the home team they wore white trousers and a red shirt as their uniform, or what you would say their kit. Where a ball lands on the fly ball determines if is foul or fair judged by the foul line, but on a ground ball the ball is judged when it crosses over the first or third base. If it goes foul before the base it is foul, if over or after the base it is fair. And yes, the foul line itself is fair. To play for GB, the player must qualify and have a GB passport. Only two players on the GB team were born in GB. About half were American born with GB parents, and another half were Bahamas and other Caribbean Islanders with GB passports. As for the scoreboard in top left corner, you are looking at a typical box score you would have seen in a newspaper, R = runs, H = hits, and E = errors made by the teams in that game. There are several UA-cam Class 101 baseball videos that are fairly general for beginners, and at least two little league managers with deeper how to videos that are much more in depth about the rules of baseball. A UA-cam video search with baseball and beginner or how to should make it easier to find them. As for what the tv scoreboard displayed during the game, there are also UA-cam videos explains it as well. And I would mostly like to point out is that this World Baseball Classic tournament is being played when the players major leagues are in Spring training, when the players are just getting into playing fitness. Championships usually occur after the playing season, not before. That is why the pitchers had pitch counts limiting how much they could play. At most they could throw 65, pitches, with other limitation with less pitches thrown. During a normal 9 inning games, each team would on average see 120-130 pitches. So 65 pitches limit made it practically impossible to pitch a complete game. The National League in baseball in the USA was formed in 1876, the Premiere League in England was formed in 1992. Although I am sure the FA cup was first won in 1871. So pro sports have been around about the same amount of time.
Each team can have players from the US but those players have to show/prove a lineage back to the country they're playing for. I believe they are doing that to try to promote a "world series tournament" in which years from now more countries will join in and it will broaden the popularity. As of 2023 there are 20 countries competing in three host countries; Chinese Taipei, Japan, and the United States, with the U.S. hosting two pools and the championship round. Japan looks like a powerhouse this year....
As of this morning, there are 5 teams left in the tourney. Japan will play Mexico, Cuba will play the winner of tonight's game- USA vs Venezuela. At this point, I think Japan is probably the favorite to win the whole thing.
i see why you would think most teams are just Americans. Alot of people think that baseball is only played in America but its the number 1 sport in a number of countries. Only a couple of these teams have mostly Americans, those being italy and Israel. Gb is about half and half. The asian teams are 100% homegrown with the exception of one American born player on China, south Korea, and japan (Alan Carter, Tommy Edman, and Lars Nootbar). Same thing with the south American teams and every other team with a few outlying Americans spread throughout. The two outliers are great britain and the Netherlands in the way that they get players from commonwealth nations such as the bahamas or curacao in the case of the netherlands.
Dude, America is not the only country in the World that plays baseball. My wife is from Ispwich, England, and I played in a baseball league in England. This Baseball World Classic is the FIFA World Cup for baseball. Think of Major League Baseball (MLB) as your Premiere League...all the best players from around the World play in the MLB, but these countries have people who grew up playing baseball in their countries.
Professional baseball teams in America have player from multiple countries. During this tournament they can play for their home country. There are professional baseball leagues in several other countries like Japan, Korea and even China. Baseball is also very popular in Latin American countries such as Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Venezuela.
From Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Caribbean and South America, virtually all the players are native born. For UK, etc... a lot of players with strong US connections. Strange sport in that it has taken root in parts o fthe globe you wouldn't necessarily expect.
Check out the Puerto Rico - Dominican Republic game
The UK invented baseball, it's called Rounders, look it up. It's mainly played by schoolgirls in PE lessons while the boys lay footy
the GB team has some Britsh players, about half are American and the rest are from the Bahamas (i guess they count because of the commonwealth)
Most of the players on team GB are American so is the Italian team, all the players on team Israel are american.the rest of the countries ;the players are from that country and its territories.
Outside of the United States’ 4 teams in the tournament (USA, GB, Italy, and Israel), all the players are from their countries. Japan is very good, maybe even better than the USA, so are a lot of the Latin American teams.
The problem is that baseball is too random you cant play just one game because anything can happen even the best team can be beaten by the worst team ,they should play at least a few games to get a more realistic outcome.
That's what the 162 game regular season is for. WBC couldn't be any longer, or it would run into the MLB season (as it already kinda does for the pitchers)
GB team is mostly in a gray uniform because they were batting in the top half of each inning, the traditional color of the visiting team the USA team is mostly in white because they were wearing the color of the home team. In other games when the GB team was the home team they wore white trousers and a red shirt as their uniform, or what you would say their kit.
Where a ball lands on the fly ball determines if is foul or fair judged by the foul line, but on a ground ball the ball is judged when it crosses over the first or third base. If it goes foul before the base it is foul, if over or after the base it is fair. And yes, the foul line itself is fair.
To play for GB, the player must qualify and have a GB passport. Only two players on the GB team were born in GB. About half were American born with GB parents, and another half were Bahamas and other Caribbean Islanders with GB passports.
As for the scoreboard in top left corner, you are looking at a typical box score you would have seen in a newspaper, R = runs, H = hits, and E = errors made by the teams in that game.
There are several UA-cam Class 101 baseball videos that are fairly general for beginners, and at least two little league managers with deeper how to videos that are much more in depth about the rules of baseball. A UA-cam video search with baseball and beginner or how to should make it easier to find them.
As for what the tv scoreboard displayed during the game, there are also UA-cam videos explains it as well.
And I would mostly like to point out is that this World Baseball Classic tournament is being played when the players major leagues are in Spring training, when the players are just getting into playing fitness. Championships usually occur after the playing season, not before.
That is why the pitchers had pitch counts limiting how much they could play. At most they could throw 65, pitches, with other limitation with less pitches thrown. During a normal 9 inning games, each team would on average see 120-130 pitches. So 65 pitches limit made it practically impossible to pitch a complete game.
The National League in baseball in the USA was formed in 1876, the Premiere League in England was formed in 1992. Although I am sure the FA cup was first won in 1871. So pro sports have been around about the same amount of time.
I'd be down with a best of 3 for the final round.
@@jabbitt05 I agree it would be much more fair.
“It’s like the World Series of America” umm, the World Series is in America
Exactly.. world series... thats only American and Canadian teams, world is a bit bigger than that.
The uk 🇬🇧 does have a baseball team they are not all born in the uk but some are
GB is getting their program restarted so some american dudes are helping with that lol
America isn’t even the favorite for the championship!!