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[@actuariallurker9650]

Many Japanese stars try to come to the US viewing it as a Premiere league- such as Ichiro Suzuki

[@whenisdinner2137]

It's honestly bigger than the Premier League. It's a much bigger than every other domestic league and every other country by an order of magnitude

[@kidn00b1]

If you're a top baseball player anywhere, MLB is probably your destination. No other league compares.

[@seanhennessy9447]

On the DH rule, they did change it so that the DH applies to both the AL and NL now. And to be clear, teams from the AL play the NL all the time. It is basically the same format as AFC versus NFC in the NFL. They are more difference conferences than leagues as a whole.

[@ORagnar]

They started interleague play in the 1990s. .o

[@gregorywilliams1308]

The pitcher can hit if a manager wanted to, however pitchers are poor hitters, because they spend their time pitching. Both hitting and pitching are very hard skills. Therefore the designated hitter rule started back in the early seventies to add more offense to the game.

[@ORagnar]

@@gregorywilliams1308 -- That's true, but for the National League it was introduced only last year. 1.0

[@Fly-The-W]

​@@ORagnar I'm all for the traditions and history of baseball but feel like the new rules have brought baseball back to greatness. The dead time in baseball has grown exponentially and had gotten to a painful point with both batters and pitchers taking forever between pitches in recent years. Brought it back to the pace of old with the athletes of today. Its been fantastic imo. Needs maybe a little tweaking but overall ive liked it

[@hifijohn]

baseball comes from townball and townball comes from rounders. and most of the players from the Italy and uk team are from the us and all the players from the Israeli team are from America.

[@Wxqzq9826]

yes but they’re first generation americans so their parents are still foreign. Also countries like great britain, the netherlands and other european countries pull players out of caribbean islands that are still those countries territory

[@Green.P3]

Every country has a mix of players

[@TheOtherBradBird]

Rounders and Baseball are like second cousins. It really seems like the kind of game that should be popular in Britain.

[@fighterck6241]

​@@Wxqzq9826 The Carribean islanders in the Netherlands are actually full citizens. Kinda like Puerto Rico with the US even though they play as a separate nation in most sports.

[@ryangibbons6723]

Hideki Matsui was a baller. Went 8 for 13 with 3 homeruns in the 2009 world series, winning the world series mvp at 35. I always liked to say he was the chef's kiss on that incredible 2009 yankees team

[@japcar84]

Most of the Great Britain team members were born in either the U.S. or the Bahamas, but there also is a decent percentage of guys that were actually born in Great Britain.

[@res3382]

Baseball did come mostly from rounders. In the colonies it converted into town-ball which eventually evolved into-and was codified into baseball in the 1840's. Baseball as played today came to form in the 1890's.

[@qaqusee]

baseball's first pro game was on May 4, 1869

[@res3382]

@@qaqusee Very true but the modern rules didn't come into being until years later.

[@wallapee]

@@res3382 lol what are you even saying? modern rules didn't exist in 1860s? quite a profound conclusion bud.

[@res3382]

@@wallapee That's not exactly what I'm saying. In 1869 no players wore gloves and you hit the other team with the ball to get them out (soaking). There were other differences too, especially with pitching. The general rules were there but the way baseball is played today is due to changes made in the last part of the century-which is what I was meaning to say.

[@fighterck6241]

​@@res3382 you're right. That could hardly be called modern baseball.

[@Alex-kd5xc]

I think something like 5% of the British team are actually from Britain lol I was at the US-GB game in Phoenix sitting right next to the family of Vance Worley, starting pitcher for GB and they told me the only reason Worley got to play for GB was because his mother was born in Hong Kong

[@ajdembroski7529]

5% were natural born and current citizens of GB. Many more were born there but live/have citizenship elsewhere now.

[@ballenmedia]

I work for a college baseball team here in the states and one of our players, Marek Chlup is a starting outfielder for the Czech Republic. He had a few nice hits and even had a nice double off a 102 mph fastball from Japan's Roki Sasaki. Marek is a heck of player and a great friend! You guys should check him out the story behind team Czech.

[@Sandman60077]

6 of the 37 players for team GB are from the UK. The rest are mostly from the US and quite a few from the Bahamas.

[@TB-tr3cm]

Exactly. And one has a connection to Hong Kong.

[@natenae8635]

Yeah a lot of our (Bahamas) players went to play for Britain because we didn’t have enough for our own team. They are allowed to do this because their parents were born British. I believe it’s around 12-15 we sent.

[@TDHSFV]

Trayce Thompson is Klay Thompson’s brother. They’re from CA, but they’re dad Mychal who played with the Blazers and Lakers is Bahamian.

[@ISLAVERDE29]

@@TB-tr3cm Not this tournament, there used to be a player from HK in '16

[@TB-tr3cm]

@@ISLAVERDE29 Vance Worley. UK pitcher, this year. His mother was born in Hong Kong. Making him eligible to play for the UK..

[@LumberjackMC]

1 thing that I do know about the British team is that Trayce Thompson, Brother of the Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson, his father was born in the Bahamas while Trayce was born and raised in sunny California and he somehow is eligible for the British National Team

[@JAB2010]

It was a British territory until 1973.

[@kevinprzy4539]

@@JAB2010 trayce was born in 91

[@JAB2010]

@@kevinprzy4539 but his dad wasn’t.

[@JAB2010]

@Intro to Classic Rock and World Music k

[@natenae8635]

@@kevinprzy4539 If your parents were born to a different nationality in sports you play for that country. Since Michael Thompson, Trace’s and Klay’s father was born British(Before independence) , Trace and many others of our players can play for team GB

[@JPMadden]

I had to look up Daz's comment about the UK winning a baseball tournament in 1938. The World Baseball Classic was founded in 2006. The 1938 win was in its precursor, which was held between 1938 and 2011. It was first known as the Amateur World Series and later as the Baseball World Cup. The key to understanding how the UK won 4 out of 5 games over the U.S. is probably the word "amateur." Before television, attending baseball games was a primary form of entertainment in the U.S. There were thousands of professional and "semi-pro" teams. All of these players would have been ineligible for this amateur tournament. Imagine the UK participating in an international soccer/football tournament that prohibited the UK from having any of their best 10,000 players on the team. Most of the team sports popular worldwide were developed in either the U.S. or the UK (my favorite--hockey--is Canadian). At some point in the last 150 years, much of the world has had either an American or a British presence--military, colonial, economic. In some countries, this has largely determined which sports are popular--baseball in Japan, South Korea, and the Caribbean nations; cricket and rugby in the Commonwealth members. By the way, why are UK teams in sports competitions still called Great Britain? For the current World Baseball Classic, Team GB has 6 players born in the UK, 22 in the U.S., 1 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1 in Canada, and 7 in The Bahamas. The nationalities of the coaches were not provided. A standard MLB roster has 25 players; I suppose these larger rosters are intended to account for injuries.

[@MrBobbyz24]

Japanese baseball is just as big as Major League Baseball in America. A lot of the best Japanese players never come to America because they would have to take a pay cut. Japan takes baseball very very seriously

[@johnscheunemann5630]

Harry Ford, Great Britain’s 20 year old catcher was born in USA to British parents.

[@shrekthenoob]

MLB is 'technically' the highest level of play in the baseball world, but Japan's league, Nippon Professional Baseball, is arguably as good or better. Its no coincidence that Japan wins more of the exhibition matchups, and performs betters in the World Baseball Classic

[@michaelb.3982]

They don't have the pitching MLB has..

[@mickeyd6444]

@@michaelb.3982 You might be surprised. Ex. There's a kid named Roki Sasaki on the Japan WBC team this year who, in his first outing of the tournament, threw more than 20 pitches exceeding 100mph. He's just one example. There are also a lot of hurlers with ungodly breaking stuff.

[@casketman14]

They also got one of the easiest pools to get by unscathed

[@grilledlettuce1845]

Played low level baseball In South Florida. Can't think of any people on earth more passionate about sports than Latin American people that play baseball. Was always so jealous of their love and pure natural talent for the game

[@samc1513]

Great Britain actually played pretty well vs the USA. Players for GB are mostly from British colonies in the Caribbean

[@dr.sweetchat6769]

A cool character from old school baseball players doing world tours is Moe Burg. While in Europe he was an avid photographer who liked taking pictures of his teammates in front of military structures. He was a spy!

[@jeffdetmer4681]

I am pretty sure that you can play even if it's a parent or grandparent who lives or lived in a particular country. As for the American team, a lot of players don't participate because it may be in their contracts. Teams hate when their stars risk getting injured so close to the opening of the MLB season. That said there are some stars who are playing. I know a few years back there were "American players" who chose to play for other countries where their family roots were so they had a better chance of getting more playing time. Ohtani is the first in a long time to be so proficient as a pitcher and a hitter, but not the first. There have been pitchers who were such good hitters they got used as pinch hitters. Not as much any more because for years now pitchers haven't batted. Not even in the minor leagues or college. Going way back, Babe Ruth was a 20 game winner as a pitcher and arguably the greatest hitter in baseball ever. The league told Babe once that the fans would support the game more if there were more homeruns. After that there were years when Babe hit more Hrs in a season than most of the other teams hit as a team total. Also back in the day even great stars like Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra etc used to have to work in the off season to make a decent living. Oh and there are some guys playing for England who are from some of the sisland nations that belong to England as well. British subjects.

[@DanielPerez-ld5yr]

You’re eligible for selection if you can qualify for citizenship of the country. For example most of team Israel are Jewish Americans who are eligible for Israeli citizenship. Team GB are mostly from the US with British heritage or from The Bahamas. Team Italy is mostly Americans with Italian heritage, etc.

[@johanna0131]

The designated hitter was a thing in the American League, but they’ve been using it in the National league since Covid. You guys should watch the highlights from the Great Britain/USA game.

[@areguapiri]

Do a reaction to the "Little League World Series". That will give you an idea of how serious we take baseball at the youth level.

[@vp_wrld]

It’s always so crazy to think about how limited baseball’s popularity is in the UK. In the US it’s crazy how easy it is to find a baseball field. I live in a major city and can think of like 10 baseball fields within 10 minutes of me

[@crazydrummer181]

I live on the Mississippi coast and I can think of at least a dozen within ten miles.

[@officialzacht]

Probably like 7 here in like a 20 mile radius 😂 Oklahoma

[@vp_wrld]

@@officialzacht that’s definitely lower than around here 😂 I grew up in a suburban town in Pennsylvania and there were definitely at least 20 fields just in my hometown. Some were just sandlots in the middle of neighborhoods, some were used by schools and some were owned by local youth baseball leagues

[@okienative4785]

​@@officialzacht you just have to stop at any small town and ask "where's your baseball field"

[@officialzacht]

@@vp_wrld that’s probably on the low side for us cause at least every school around has one.

[@benhinds2971]

MLB players were working other jobs alot more recently than you might think. It all has to do with salaries. Nolan Ryan was the first player to earn a 1 million dollars for the season in 1979.

[@elizabethrogers8306]

The Angels based in Anaheim have had players from all over including Britain and Australia. As of 2022, pitchers in both leagues are not required to bat.

[@andirandolph8830]

As soon as she mentioned Team DR, I knew someone was gonna say “slap ass!” 😆

[@jenn8557]

Both leagues in MLB now use a designated hitter. They changed it not too long ago.

[@samc1513]

You guys should take a trip to the batting cages, take Aidan with you. It's a lot of fun

[@jordanliu6653]

Most of the team members on the Great Britain squad is mostly from the Bahamas

[@philburkin9651]

The earliest written reference to baseball was in a British book of childrens games published in 1744. Jane Austen also mentioned baseball in her 1803 novel, "Northanger Abbey". "British (also Welsh) Baseball" as it was known was basically adult rounders and it was still played in Wales up to the mid-1980's (in the rugby off season to try and keep players out of the pub). British teams started using the "new" US rules in 1890 following the 1889 Spalding World Tour. GB won the first baseball World Cup in 1938... but with grandaded in Canadian players 😂. In football terms, MLB is the Premier League, NPB is the bottom of the PL/top of the Championship, Korean baseball is mid-Champonship and Taiwan is bottom of the Championship/top of League 1.

[@Fatblue246]

the “world series” being called the “world series” actually originated as a marketing tactic. Back before the MLB there were multiple competing professional baseball leagues in the US, and one of the marketing ploys two of them used to attract more attendance was creating the “world series” between their two leagues. Most Americans understand in modern times of a far more globalized world than the late 1800’s that it is a very antiquated and silly thing, but tradition is tradition! So the world series it stays.

[@mrgmusicclass]

Carribean is the basebALL Factory. Especially Dominican Republic and PR. The per capita in Donincan per MLB players is ridiculous. They put out a ridiculous amount of top players.

[@zacharymadrid3045]

If you want another good in depth video about the World Baseball Classic, I recommend USA Is Getting Worse at Baseball and MLB loves It, by Baseball Doesn't Exist. Goes more in depth about baseballs international popularity and how diverse the MLB actually is.

[@samc1513]

The DH or designated hitter is now used in both the National and American leagues

[@ed0825]

"the nutrition coach" 😂😂😂

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

A player is eligible to participate on a World Baseball Classic team if any one of the following criteria is met: The player is a citizen of the nation the team represents. The player is qualified for citizenship or to hold a passport under the laws of a nation represented by a team, but has not been granted citizenship or been issued a passport; in this case, the player may be made eligible by WBC upon petition by the player or team. The player is a permanent legal resident of the nation or territory the team represents. The player was born in the nation or territory the team represents. The player has one parent who is, or if deceased was, a citizen of the nation the team represents. The player has one parent who was born in the nation or territory the team represents. Most of the players on the British team are from the U.S.

[@Fishmorph]

Baseball promoters and mythologists tried to attribute the sport to Major General Abner Doubleday, who supposedly invented the game in 1839 in Cooperstown NY. Crediting a Civil War general made some sense, because many soldiers would have recalled playing (some early form of) the game during a lull in the action; this probably helped unify the rules to a degree as every town probably had its own local variants (town ball, baseball, one old cat, two old cat, etc). Since he never made this claim in his lifetime, and he was conveniently dead for 14 years before anybody attributed this invention to him, it is highly dubious at best. A more influential figure (in that he had any influence at all) was Henry Chadwick, an English sportswriter and amateur statistician, who is credited with creating a lot of the measurements (like ERA and batting average) still in use today, along with inventing the box score and helping to guide the early development of the rules.

[@actuariallurker9650]

Dominican and other latino players are frequently star infielders since they come from very poor areas and played as children in dirt fields full of rocks and holes so spent years grabbing batted balls with strange jumps and twists. So when they play on well kept US playing fields they excel

[@kfletch19]

I think to play for a team you’ve got to have a connection to the country. One of the British players is an American that was born in London while is dad was stationed there in the US military. Freddy Freeman plays for the LA Dodgers and was born in California but is playing for Canada because he mother was born there.

[@joeyholloway6802]

I love when they realize that it’s called the World Series because players literally do come from all over the world !

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

In the American league, the pitcher doesn't bat; they use a designated hitter. In the National league, the pitcher also bats, no designated hitter. Teams in the same league play each other more often than do teams opposing leagues, especially in their respective divisions. When a team from each league play each other, they use the rules of the home team, same for the world series, which of course is the championship team from each league playing each other in a best-of-seven series.

[@TB-tr3cm]

Designated hitters in both leagues, starting last year.

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

@@TB-tr3cm oh wow, interesting. I used to be an avid baseball watcher, and loved the Red Sox, but I can't stomach all the woke stuff. I stopped watching a few years ago, but still love the intricacies of the game.

[@amj4]

There is a balanced schedule starting this season with all teams, both NL and AL, playing each other an equal amount of times

[@Scubadeer28]

Great Britain got bailed out by the islanders representing Great Britain... That's the bulk of the roster. Kind of cool.

[@Griegoatenas]

Quarter finals this year Puerto Rico vs Mexico & US vs Venezuela

[@josepholszewski2565]

The rules have changed, both mlb leagues now have the designated hitter for the pitcher and so does the wbc

[@Kronikman07]

I just googled it, and it was first played around 1846. I like baseball and forgot it came that long ago. I thought it was maybe 1890 or 80.

[@lilJJslayer]

daz definitely back in full force🤣😂🤣

[@pittsburghsportsallthetime8380]

congratulations to Great Britain on their first WBC win the other day

[@brettg274]

TBF, the official World Series winner tally is US 116 - Canada 2

[@GreatCdn59]

6:12 - the other Hideki you are likely thinking of, from the Yankees back then, is Hideki Irabu

[@brandi_with_an_i]

Daz, you're talking about the DH (designated hitter). The AL (American League) was the league that utilized the DH spot, but NL (National League) adopted it in 2022. I've had mixed feelings about it. I'm kind of a traditionalist and NL fan (Go Braves). And yes, the World Baseball Classic teams have designated hitters. There are teams in the same state that play in the same league, such as Philadelphia Phillies and Pittsburg Pirates of the NL and Houston Astros & Texas Rangers of the AL. All other states with more than one team are in separate leagues.

[@frankisfunny2007]

There are women who are interested in baseball. There's men who are fans of softball, as well! (It's literally the same game just with a bigger ball, and smaller field to play on.)

[@Alex.Kaleipahula]

11:35 the Uk team has players from the Virgin Islands and Bahamas, uk and USA

[@bosounagi]

WBC 2023 was one to remember! You Blokes need to check out videos of Taiwan's crowds during the WBC!

[@metabolicraged]

In Major League Baseball, there are two leagues, the American and National Leagues, that will have one representative face off in the World Series at the end of the playoffs. Until recently, the National League did not have the "Destinated Hitter" rule, so the pitcher was one of the 9 players who had to bat. That recently changed and now pitchers do not have to bat in either league. Shohei Ohtani is unique in that he pitches and hits at a very high level so he may be the starting pitcher but will also be in the batting lineup as the Destinated Hitter.

[@PresentingGreatMusic]

American League and National League are just different conferences, both are still in the same league, the MLB

[@SilvanaDil]

If you make it big in Japan's baseball league, South Korea's baseball league, etc., it won't be long before you're in the MLB. "World Series" is only a partial misnomer, because whichever American city's team wins really is the best team in the world that year.

[@AngelA-qi1br]

275 players from 25 different countries (not counting the USA) played in MLB in 2022. The top three foreign countries with the most players in MLB are: 100 from the Dominican Republic, 67 from Venezuela, 24 from Cuba.

[@luis_g_77]

A mix of foreigners winning a tournament and Britain getting the trophy kind of sounds like the most British a team could get.

[@seanwilson5516]

Nothing new. Their cricket team have more South Africans than South Africa.

[@hasheeshiann]

Daz has clearly never watched Top Chef

[@flabbergast270]

Just to put this to bed because I get irrationally when I hear it... they're called world champions because they won the championship in the highest level league of that sport in the world. For example, MLB and the NBA are the highest levels of competition in their sport around the world because although there are professional leagues in other countries, the best players from around the world all aspire to play in these leagues. They do this because they recognize them as the highest level of competition in their respective sports.

[@DUEYZ4U]

There seem to be a few things that originated in England that most people didn't know were born there. Interesting.

[@AnkerPeet]

Here's a breakdown of where Great Britain's players were born and how many for each birth country: USA: 22 Bahamas: 7 UK: 6 US Virgin Islands: 1 Canada: 1

[@AnkerPeet]

How to qualify to play for a country: - Played on the team previously; or - Citizen of that team's country; or - Currently a legal permanent resident of that team's country; or - Born in that team's country; or - At least one parent born in that team's country; or - At least one parent is a citizen of that team's country; or - Player can prove they qualify for citizenship for that team's country (like Jewish people qualifying for team Israel)

[@mikehunt368]

klay thompsons (golden state warriors) brother is on the GBR team.. i think they said there are 5 brits… most are people tied to the bahamas

[@ZkL92]

For the cost of 1 american prospect out of highschool, MLB teams can build an academy in latin america and sign 300 14 year old latinos and have a full farm of prospects solely focused on baseball not algerbra

[@Khaoki]

The British Baseball Federation operates with a £25,000 annual budget, so they're operating with a shoestring budget in regard to infrastructure and what not. However, simply qualifying for the WBC comes with $300,000 in prize money so they're about to get a significant boost and they won an automatic qualification for the 2026 WBC and the prize money will likely be larger that go around.

[@sammurphy3343]

Pitchers bat in the national league. In the American league they use a designated hitter.

[@Debandy6379]

A lot of the players aren’t actually from the countries they represent but are eligible based on duel-citizenships, being say the grandchild or child of a someone qualifies them to represent that country of their family, or in the case of the UK being born in a common wealth country.

[@williamsliemers1758]

To a large degree, the game was introduced by the US militery through out the world.

[@ronclark9724]

A single game contest is great for a tournament environment, with the best record in group play followed by a bracket elimination round for the championship. In most of the world, league championship in the upper levels of baseball is determined by a 3, 5, or 7 game series. While most of the team on the field plays everyday, pitching varies widely on the same team, and pitching makes up almost half of every team, and most pitchers do not play every day. All pitching arms needs day of rest to stay healthy. To actually reflect the strength of a team, for most of the pitchers to have an effect on the team play, you have to play more than just one game. And that’s called a series. Hence why the World Series is very different than this World Baseball Classic.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

If you never played it, I gotta tell you there's not much more satisfying moment than a (wooden, not metal) bat hitting a baseball perfectly. Maybe golf or tennis have something similar, but nowhere near the same degree.

[@Queue26]

The pitcher doesn’t hit in this tournament. Daz you are correct , the National League in the MLB still has the pitchers hit, ( ** correction they no longer have the pitchers hit as of last year **) Ohtani is a rare breed, he usually DH’s but when he pitches he also occupies the DH slot. If he gets taken out early as a pitcher he can still remain in the game at DH.

[@TB-tr3cm]

Designated hitters replaced pitchers in the batting order, last year. Same in both leagues now.

[@Queue26]

You’re right. Just remembering year after year hearing the argument against it. Forgot it finally happened.

[@TB-tr3cm]

@@Queue26 Yes. As a national league guy from Philly, I was originally against it. But, it's the only reason Bryce Harper was able to play last year -- couldn't play the field because of his elbow injury -- and he ended up carrying them into the playoffs and into the World Series. So -- selfishly, I've changed my opinion about the DH in the National League.

[@res3382]

4:46 100% WRONG. Babe Ruth was the best hitter of all-time and the best left-handed pitcher in the league for a brief period before his prodigious hitting skills prompted his move to full time hitter.

[@iakadayrneh]

How is he wrong when babe Ruth never played against black baseball players.

[@TheSRC88]

A lot of Americans play for other teams. If all players had to play for whatever country they were born in the American team would be virtually unstoppable.

[@josepholszewski2565]

you did not say the basement championship! That dude was sick! 🤣🤣🤣

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

Before the late 1970's, when free agency became a thing, most players had to hold a job in the off season.. only the stars made big money

[@MrBobbyz24]

Everyone on the British national team was born in Britain that's the whole point. Most of them probably spent most of their lives in America which is why they don't have British accents, but they were born there. You can't just be an American and join the British team. All of the Stars on all the other countries teams are Americans now because they have been playing in Major League Baseball for several years and have gained their citizenship, but they still go back to their own country for the tournament

[@natenae8635]

No some are foreigners(Bahamian) I believe around 10 but they are children of British born parents so they allowed to play

[@artaxAF]

Most of the players for Team Great Britain are from the British Virgin Islands or other British colonies. And the token ginger is on Team Mexico this time.

[@japes_YT]

Can be a lot of things linking a player to a region. Some have british parents or a parent , were born there or have a spouse from there etc. It is not really all that strict the rules on who you represent but I do beleive you have some sort of connection to the place.

[@istiles1]

I know y'all don't do movies, but it'd be funny to see you react to 'Field of Dreams'.

[@timhefty504]

Israel's team is basically a Jewish all-star team. The Netherlands are about half mainland Dutch and half natives of the Netherlands Antilles

[@everypitchcounts4875]

A lot of these unknown younger players that standout during the tournament end up getting signed by a MLB team. I think 3 or 4 players have been signed by MLB teams in this world baseball classic so far.

[@fighterck6241]

11:58 I think like half the team is from Bahamas, so yeah Commonwealth and I think it's crazy that they allowed it. It makes sense for Curacao and Arruba to play for the Netherlands since they actually carry EU passports, are citizens of the Netherlands and can go and live there if they wanted to. Can people in the Commonwealth just go live in the UK? Makes little sense if they can't.

[@natenae8635]

It’s because your often allowed in many sports to play for your parents country of Birth. Since the Bahamas was a British colony, anyone who’s parents was born before independence can play for team GB. I’m not sure if all federations accept this circumstance. For me as a Bahamian I can’t play for Team GB because both my parents were born after independence.

[@LuisMorales-bp3sx]

The DH rule is now implemented in both leagues.

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

There are 2 or 3 guys on the Great Britain team that were born in Britain.. but they all grew up in the US

[@AxelFoleyDetroitLions]

You Can see a Pitch or a bat….You can Never taste or even Smell the food on Top-Shelf

[@SDSOne]

The CT is Chinese Taipei. Not China

[@raphaelpaz8476]

Best in the world plays in Major league Baseball

[@joshpavlik3343]

As of last year the national league adopted the DH so now in both leagues pitchers don’t bat.

[@Philburkin]

Team GB are all grand-daded in Americans, Bahamians and British Virgin Islanders but you have to "fake it 'til you make it"? The plan is to use the WBC to get British kids interested. Italy, Israel and Greece have all fielded teams of Americans in the past too. The Czech Republic show what could be done here. Small country with roughly the same climate. It's not like many British kids (except from the Indian/Pakistani diaspra) watch or play cricket anymore ???

[@gordieparenteau6555]

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was courted by Team Canada since he was born in Montrèal while his Dad was playing for the Expos. Obviously, he declined.

[@insertcolorherehawk3761]

Due to agreements between MLB, NPB, and the KBOL, junior players from the US/Canada, Japan, and Korea play in their domestic feeder leagues and would move to their senior domestic leagues, without interference from the other countries. NPB and MLB are the pinnacle (NPB is slightly weaker, but is still high on talent due to their 9-year control rules, and a Posting system between organizations) I wouldn't call the NPB and the KBO feeder leagues, especially when they're meant to be their actual professional top-tier domestic leagues If MLB is the PL, then NPB is the Bundesliga and the KBO is SPL or the Portuguese league Outside of those four countries, players can generally sign from anywhere to a MLB or NPB farm system should they have the talent, along with playing in a winter league in the Caribbean or Australia

[@michaelb.3982]

Baseball is Japan's number one sport..

[@jamesjoseph1249]

As far as who can play for which national team goes: It's basically whoever is a citizen of a country or it's territories (doesn't have to be born there though) a legal resident of a country or territory 1 of your parents is from that country/territory or if you can prove that you would be granted citizenship to that country if you applied ("in short order"). That's the goofy one. I would be that most of the people on the British team are from the British Virgin Islands or one of their parents is...meanwhile, they grew up in Cuba, the US, DR, etc...and they just aren't good enough to make one of those teams.

[@timmethy]

Baseball is big in the British territory of Bermuda where I think a lot of the "British" players come from.

[@moe92870]

You guys should sell "1938 World Baseball Classic Champs" T-s in your merch store? Just an idea.

[@charles7836]

That was a good reaction. I follow a lot of your clips and noticed you'd reacted to a police PIT maneuver. Out of all 50 states, I've noticed Arkansas pursuits are insane! Watching one of their compilations is like watching high-speed bumper cars for adults. They're vicious, and I love it.

[@kevinlee3298]

I think you guys will love the Little League World Series.

[@MrBobbyz24]

Okay the person narrating was very wrong when she said that shohei ohtani was the first person to pitch and hit successfully. There was this guy named Babe Ruth once...

[@chrisperise5380]

To be eligible to play in this tournament a player or their parents has to be born in the country or be eligible/have citizenship in the country

[@Beltran15x]

the world's best players play in the mlb thats why its the world series.

[@maciedixon3983]

A lot of the British team is Bahamian