CF Lee Yong-kyu (Hanwha Eagles; KBO) 2B Seo Geon-chang (Nexen Hereos; KBO) DH Kim Tae-hyun (Hanwha Eagles; KBO) 1B Lee Dae-ho (Lotte Giants; KBO) Spent last season with Mariners RF Son Ah-seop (Lotte Giants; KBO) LF Min Byung-heon (Doosan Bears; KBO) 3B Park Suk-min (NC Dinos; KBO) SS Kim Ha-sung (Nexen Hereos; KBO) C Kim Tae-goon (NC Dinos; KBO)
SP Woo Kyu-min (Samsung Lions; KBO) SS Andrelton Simmons (LA Angels; MLB) CF Jurickson Profar (Texas Rangers; MLB) 3B Xander Bogaerts (Boston Red Sox; MLB) RF Wladimir Balentien (Tokyo Yakult Swallows; NPB) Former Mariner and Red 2B Jonathan Schoop (Baltimore Orioles; MLB) DH Didi Gregorius (New York Yankees; MLB) 1B Curt Smith (Lincoln Saltdogs; AAPB) Former Cardinals prospect; 2011 Baseball World Cup MVP C Dashenko Ricardo (Lincoln Saltdogs; AAPB) Former O's, Giants, and Dodgers prospect LF Randolph Oduber (Lincoln Saltdogs; AAPB) Former Nats prospect
SP Rick VandenHurk (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks; NPB) Former Marlin, Orioles, Pirate; Played 2 years in Korea
>hitting grounders against the netherlands I shiggy diggy
Noah Harris
CF Roel Santos (Alazanes de Granma; CUB) Also played for Quebec Capitales in Can-Am SS Alexander Ayala (Toros de Camagüey; CUB) DH Frederich Cepeda (Gallos de Sancti Spíritus; CUB) Former Yomuri Giant LF Alfredo Despaigne (Fukuoka Softbank Hawks; NPB) Also plays for Alazanes de Granma in Cuba 1B William Saavedra (Cocodrilos de Matanzas; CUB) 3B Yurisbel Gracial (Cocodrilos de Matanzas; CUB) Also played for Quebec Capitales in Can-Am 2B Carlos Benítez (Alazanes de Granma; CUB) C Frank Morejón (Leones de Industriales; CUB) RF Yoelkis Céspedes (Alazanes de Granma; CUB) Brother of Met Yoenis; Will most like defect
SP Noelvis Entenza (Cachorros de Holguín; CUB)
Cooper Morgan
There are some elite as fuck defensive infields in this tournament, netherlands, puerto rico and usa
Aiden Morales
He's only got 65 pitches though
Joshua Ward
Come on japan stop fucking around
Christian Roberts
>weeaboos
Dominic Sanders
Group A probabilites going into this game
Ethan Morris
Probabilities if the Dutch hang on
Zachary Lee
DRINKING DANCE
Oliver Lee
If Korea can stop fucking up and get back in it
John Scott
Why is Korea so fucking bad?
Angel Bailey
vs Vandenhurk: Son Ah-seop 8-19 Seo Geon-chang 6-25 Oh Jae-won 2-3 Hur Kyung-min 1-3 Min Byung-heon 0-6 Lee Yong-kyu 4-16 Kim Tae-gyun 4-18
Sebastian Nguyen
Despaigne’s hurt
Alexander Lee
would aoki really be the best hitter in npb? embarrassing
Julian Scott
Oh, looks like he's OK
Jack Barnes
How does a Cuban get so fat?
Tyler Gutierrez
Jesus Korea How do you go from winning that minor league WBC to fucking up this badly?
Tyler Taylor
TSUUUUUtsugo
Camden Powell
Japan chat going crazy
Jaxon Perry
Not even close
Samuel King
>2 (two) 'TSU's in his name
Anthony Jackson
Why is the names in English?
Parker Collins
cute ball gril
Ryder Wilson
he's hitting third nigger, until Yamada or Tsutsugo or some other fag comes stateside and produces more than 2 oWAR I'm going to assume Aoki would be better
Robert Watson
How bad are you guys gonna miss Otani?
Zachary Lewis
Because no kanji font would be legible on the back of the uniforms
Kevin Cox
It doesn't make him best hitter right now. Aoki is poor man's Ichiro anyway
Easton Morris
Maybe Ohtani I guess Yanagita or Tsutsugo could hit more HRs than Aoki but I doubt if they can hit .280 Beside Tsutsugo has terrible defense Yamada's been awful since he's been hit by twice last season in July and September
Jonathan Roberts
None of their shit is in kanji same goes for Korea
Ethan Cook
both games are slow as fuck
Aaron Bennett
Why are the pitch count limits so low? Is there some effort to get every pitcher to play like some middle school shit?
Jason Gomez
damn, what a play
Colton Clark
Do Japs like baseball more than Koreans?
Gavin Harris
That catch wasn't that impressive. If you've played baseball you'd know those gloves make it easy
Michael Ortiz
>hitting grounders against the netherlands wew
It's so that the wbc can afford insurance for the pitchers. they need the low pitch counts to convince insurers that there's no real injury risk pitching in this thing
Jeremiah Reed
How is Japanese beer? It's gotta be better than American pisswater, right?
Dominic Green
...
Lincoln Nelson
Not so sure about that play at first
Joshua Mitchell
I tried Asahi beer it was pretty good
Cooper Wright
If I hate Sup Forums, will I hate japan?
Landon Smith
>lack of minorities in Japanese commercials So refreshing
Dylan Ross
I hope weeb destroyed
Ryder Robinson
Was Iguchi considered OK-tier defensively as a 2nd baseman?
Henry Rodriguez
Similar but tends to be "dry". Which leaves a sweeter, but less malty and bready taste.
It is definitely preferable to American Macro shit
Tyler Sanchez
He was great with the sox in 05 at least, based Gooch
Caleb Miller
Why didn't Ichiro play this time?
Aaron Price
>Seiya Suzuki also gets #51
Parker Jones
What kind of bunt technique is that?
Asher Martinez
KBO more like KBTFO
Landon Gray
great post, friend
Elijah Rogers
VandenHurk is great now, but once he leaves it won't be so easy
Tomorrow's starter is 36 year old Diego Markwell who has spent the last 10 years in the Dutch league
Connor Gutierrez
damn made me think that shima guy died
Nolan Howard
He did
Brayden Stewart
how do the gooks expect to do anything when they all swing like bitches?
Jeremiah Sullivan
All these base hits up the middle
Lincoln Butler
What's with the vast foul territory in the Tokyo Dome?
Levi Clark
Ok i swear that catcher is Jeter
Owen Watson
still smaller than Sapporo Dome (Darvish used to pitch here)
Dylan Hughes
That's fucking ridiculous but it's also a soccer stadium so I guess a little more acceptable
The Tokyo Dome isn't
Isaac Rivera
What's the fucking point of showing stats from an independent league? Look how good he is at baseball for special people
Zachary Williams
We really need a global series Even if it's on the same level as the mcdonald's thing in the 80s
Mason White
Korea should just have Oh pitch as much as he possibly can
Austin Ross
Guys? Anyone still here?
Dominic Cook
They're already going to Markwell? Who pitches tomorrow?
Carter Reyes
Cepeda playing for the Yomiuri Giants
Jayden Richardson
How come you guys don't get refugee players?
Adrian Johnson
>he's already fucking it up
John Thompson
I'd pull for the Dutch but the only Dutch baseball site I know of tweets anti-Trump stuff half the time despite living in Toothpasteland
Angel White
We had a Czech guy for the qualifiers but no Dutch for this game?
Cooper Torres
>aoki playing good defense weird
Carson Jones
this gets literally 0 coverage over here. it's the first time I even heard that we're competing
Kayden Martinez
Fresh
William White
they made the semifinals last time, wouldn't be too surprised if they did so again being on the shit asian side of the bracket
>hitting grounders again gooks never learn
Hudson Wright
It's the 4th time you've competed You guys made the semis last time It's mostly Curacao and Aruba though so it's not completely shocking
I'm just surprised that not one of guys showed up until now
Evan Thomas
Is it possible to make a better defensive infield?
Oliver Nelson
The US and PR infields are at least as good
Arenado, Crawford, Kinsler Correa, Lindor, Baez
plus Posey/Molina behind the dish
Brandon Lopez
>Highlights of a mediocre soccer league gets prioritized over a live game involving a national team of a sport Sad desu Apparently some town wants a MLB game over there
Blake Sanchez
flag on the OP isn't big enough
Evan Harris
Bartman
Oliver Richardson
based fan
Angel Ortiz
Ehh its not a big deal. Really the WBC isnt super popular here either. Its still a rather niche tourney. I havent heard anybody talk about it that isnt a huge baseball fan already.
