Specially in the USA, most Americans (I'm talking about those who do like baseball of course) don't value it as much as they should. Winning this thing should be the highest achievement just like winning the Fifa world cup is to all football ⚽ players and fans World wide.
@Christian Carrillo totally agree! The USA actually has their good players playing in the WBC this year. We should be hyped up but I'm not seeing any excitement outside of myself
@@LeglessLion I hope that changes in the future. The media has to start selling the BWC as the biggest baseball event on earth 🌎. Not just in north America but on earth. American Players themselves have to start regarding it as such. As "The biggest baseball event on earth" Players from other countries do! Ask any japanese, Dominican or Venezuelan player and they'll tell you they prefer to win the BWC for their country rather than the MLB world series.
Here in Japan, the WBC is considered the biggest baseball event. However, if the national team had not won in 2006, it would not have been an exciting event for all Japanese baseball fans. Also, Another major factor was Ichiro's decision to play for the national team. I hope the WBC will be a worthwhile tournament for American audiences and players. 😄
@@voldianoi7555 Yeah, they don't care just as much as we (the rest of the world) do when it comes to national teams. They don't understand that if they want to call themselves "WORLD Champions" they have to win the WBC
@@controversialhottakes17 It clearly says the Netherlands, they play under the Kingdom. All Curaçaoan or Antilleans for that matter are Dutch citizens. Stop dividing us.
@baseball9gamrking Curacao, Aruba, St Maarten are part of kingdom of Netherlands, and there are several people from European Netherlands on the team. What's your point? Good team that deserves more attention, if you ask me.
I'd say it's Australia. 3 home runs and fantastic defense beating Korea, one of the top seeds I don't think anybody predicted they'd take that win, considering their complete lack of a national league
@@Melbester9 I agree we did. I honestly don't know if I would of gone 8 years with Mayer maybe 2 years away. But for conversations sake 2 years ago I would of given him a 6 year deal for sure.
Panamá jugó buena pelota. Los único que no pudo producir carrera para el gane. Gana el hace más carrera. Hay que saber ganar y perder. Saludos para todos los peloteros que están jugando en este clásico mundial. Se ha visto bueno juego.
Thank you MLB for making me aware of these games by your heavy advertising and many efforts to make these available to the general public.... Plus I have oceanfront properties in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah....
As a Dominican 🇩🇴 lifelong baseball fan that remembers the 2013 WBC team that won the whole tournament for first time in history, Netherlands 🇳🇱 playing like that 2013 DR team. Dutch got so much experience playing in this tournament and having come close to Semifinals in 2013 and reaching 2nd round in 2009 when they beat DR twice to upset us and then 2nd round in 2017. That brought the Kingdom of the Netherlands and their Dutch players on the baseball world radar. Netherlands 🇳🇱 2-0 they look really good. Especially how they played Cuba 🇨🇺 and Panama 🇵🇦 who are playing very well this tournament and Cuba not so much. I have a feeling that the Kingdom of the Netherlands will be WBC Champions. As a Dominican 🇩🇴 in rooting for the Dutch! Great team and their WBC tournament experiences over the years made them even better elite team. They can win this tournament.
I am curious to know what size ball they use. I remember learning that the ball size in the Japanese League is just a tiny bit smaller than the one used in the MLB. Does anyone know what size they use in the World Baseball Classic? I'm assuming it'd take some practice for Japanese pitchers to adapt? or is the difference not really that big of a deal?
To be honest, i think the Dutch ecxel in lots of sports? I am Dutch,but i stil can lay a finger on it why that is? Only 17 milj. People in my tiny country.🇳🇱
first home run we have seen in a day game to left field with the temperature at 85 degrees with tacos being sold while the third base ump is wearing a wig this year
As a Red Sox fan I'm just regretting letting Bogey go more and More and MORE every day that passes.... Terrible mistake by Bloom to let Bogey go to San Diego. I'm still not even over losing Mookie Betts, or even letting Schwarber walk. I remember when Manny Ramirez became a free agent after the 2000 season. I wanted him to play in Boston so bad. When they got him it was the most exciting thing and it really was heaven for a few years. The problem is to sign Ramirez they had to give him what was, at the time, the highest AAV ever. The way the market is now, if your star player gets to free agency. You WILL lose them. Unless your team has a spending mindset the money they will be offered will be too much. From now on you gotta lock them down while you have them, while you can, when you can. The people running the Red Sox right now don't have that mindset. The Red Sox don't win when they don't spend. And the rest of the league is starting to leave them behind. I feel like we are starting to be in an era of POWER teams. The World Series will rotate between 5-6 teams for the next decade and a half. The Dodgers, Mets, Padres, Astros, Braves and the Yankees. And if you don't spend like them, you won't be able to compete with them... The Red Sox Need to wake up...
It's true that baseball is a sport in the United States, but I think it would be more interesting to change the host country every time, like the soccer World Cup. In particular, I think it makes a lot of sense to do it in Europe.
Nah. This formula is better. The issue with WBC is that it's not at 32 teams yet like the World Cup but they're slowly getting there with 20 teams right now. I don't like how the World Cup hosts in one country. Sure they got multiple stadiums but WBC does it better having the pools host in their country. 4 pools, 4 venue stadiums in those cities of that country. By the time the WBC expands more teams, they can have more pools with new teams and host more cities. It makes it feel like a global tournament rather a regional tournament. Europe doesn't have many baseball stadiums with a lot of seats. Soccer stadiums in England and other European countries can be used to make it a baseball field. Thosr carry more seats for an event like WBC but they're not there yet. They're close.
The MLB must speak out so that this country, the Netherlands, has players from their country and not from other countries. I don't see it. The same thing happens with the United States, France, Germany in soccer.
Why pick on the Netherlands every player but one was born a Citizen of the Netherlands? Italy and Israel has more New Jerseyians on it than actualy Italians/Israelis.
@@wilkesmcdermid7906 Don't like it for them either? Maybe it's the only way all these teams can field a team? (Not trying to be snarky, just wondering. I've never watched this before. I just turned this on and thought...those guys don't look dutch, lol.) I'd like to see each team represent each country, but maybe they're not able to yet?
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 Those guys are from Curacao, a Dutch territory in the Caribbean. Racially the majority mulattoes, a mixture of whites (Dutch) and blacks, so yes, they are Dutch.
They played two different days one at night and one during the day it was only like that cuz they’re in a different time zone than the us. So for us it’s in the same day.
A Holanda no se le da bien el béisbol, pero tiene una liga de béisbol desde 1922 y hasta hoy existe una liga nacional profesional con ocho equipos, con sus propios estadios y uniformes.
La mitad del equipo nacio en Hollanda y la otra mitad son de las Antillas Hollandesa. Somos parte del reino hollandes y con orgullo lo representamos. Hollanda no hay solo blancos es un pais multicultural te recomiendo ver algunos RU-vid de gente Latina en Hollanda. Saludes desde Aruba 🇦🇼 la isla feliz.
It's a mix of players from the overseas Dutch Kingdom like Aruba, Curacao, St.Maarten and also a few players from the Netherlands (mostly pitchers), we are all part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
That's a bit of harsh language but there are pitchers from the Netherlands also like Tom de Blok and Mike Bolsenbroek, lots of players from Curacao and some from Aruba and St. Maarten, we are all dutch citizens in the kingdom of the Netherlands.