World Baseball Classic 2017

Luckily for Team USA, there is a new rule in place for this World Baseball Classic that should help them on the mound. A new "pitcher pool" will let teams add new pitchers to the roster later on in the tournament, so Team USA could conceivably add someone like Clayton Kershaw or Madison Bumgarner late in the tourney for a boost, should they get that far. They already have, confirmed, Chris Archer, Danny Duffy, and Marcus Stroman — Scherzer was supposed to be the true ace of the staff — so a start or two from the likes of Kershaw and Bumgarner would go a long way, especially if they can time it using the pitcher pool. We’ll have to see if they try to get Kershaw for the whole thing now that Scherzer is out, as they’ll have to do something to make up for this loss.

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/1/10/14223056/max-scherzer-injury-world-baseball-classic-wbc

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2017/2/2/14483282/shohei-otani-wont-pitch-in-the-world-baseball-classic

See you at 4:30 a.m. EST.

1-1 in the 8th

on to the tenth

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6PlSe_WYAAZwk_.jpg:small

the standard is one Jewish grandparent? I heard that, somewhere.

is it possible to watch these online? i have a legit mlb.com premium account + a non-legit password for some cable television channels

I think the former is all you need.

yep

2 games predawn tom'w... i guess Cuba-Japan is the mustwatch

https://www.worldbaseballclassic.com/schedule/

dunno why taiwan vs israel is blacked out in Montreal (no game is ever blacked out here).

also, found this wikipedia gem: In terms of his religious identity, Pederson has described himself as "basically nothing."

baseball first nihilist?

Cuba creeping back w/in 7-4

There are scholars wearing ties in the stands in Tokyo.

http://tweet2gif.herokuapp.com/tmp/up6.gif

defending the bases-loaded bunt probably isn't a priority given limited national-team practice time

eric gagne just threw a scoreless inning for team canada (against the blue jays)

i caught part of the cuba/china game last night. china has a way to go.

can't decide what to watch today between:

yankees/canada
pirates/DR
oakland/italy
giants/puerto rico
royals/venezuela
dbags/mexico
twins/usa (good luck usa)

some way to go.
a ways to go.
you know what i mean.

dominican lineup vs. gerrit cole (well, for two innings) today is solid:

C. Santana, Cano, Machado, Bautista, Cruz, Marte, Segura, Polanco, Welington Castillo. SP: Wily Peralta.

Jurickson Profar with the bonehead thrown out at 3rd 0 out

we have a sal fasano sighting

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6grxY8XMAE_YEO.jpg:small

swallered Sicily

US down 2-0 to Colombia in the 5th inning. and zero hits so far. of course, they've been going up against Quintana up until now.

'Murrica comes roaring back

always love seein D Murphy hit into a DP

it's a pleasure to watch arenado at 3B. dude has skills.

#FireLeyland!!!

tell me about it

@JeffPassan
Jim Leyland walks into the press conference and, without prompting, says: "Now you know why I'm not managing anymore."

lol

yeah, he looked a bit nervous during the game!

Hospital S(t)an Javier

@jay_jaffe
Drew Butera, apparently trying to win more playing time in KC by running over Sal Perez at home plate

RIP Miller Time

Jones, Rodney, Benoit, Miller: the Leyland Legacy

rare to see one catcher collide with another, let alone one on the same team! that's gonna be awkward

play-by-play guy on that US-DR game was awful

"MAYBE THIS WAKES UP THE DOMINICANS!"

Yeah, I had to mute that shit.

cuba v japan on tuesday!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Israel.svg/234px-Flag_of_Israel.svg.png

watched last 2 innings of Japan victory while on work phone meeting. which i am still on now.

The Golden Plantain!

sometimes a banana is just a banana

as when Yadi hits, throws and pitch-frames for PR last night

Jansen should catch.

Jim Kaat, still with the 'productive outs' shtick at age 78

machado just walked, and patiently held the bat in his hand as he began to walk up the first base line so that the batboy could grab it out of his hands instead of off of the ground. i don't get to watch machado that much stuff like that makes me like him a lot. who will stand up for the bat boys? manny machado will, if no one else

how did that telecast of a 3-0 game run 4:17?

Cutch tossed for strike complaint

wasn't expecting to see this rate of ejections

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7LA1zxU4AErtig.jpg

cutch otm

USA won the electoral vote on that Crawford slide at third

(temporarily)

adam jones with a fantastic play to rob a machado HR

the screaming blonde woman is a hilarious aspect of that adam jones catch highlight

saw the catch, missed the blonde

Wlad the Impaler

That was some amazing dumbshit baserunning in the 1st.

Anyone else's mlb.tv not loading for jackshit?

mine's alright

Mine's fine.

just before that pitch, the one where stanton hit into a double play, some doof in the audience yelled out "HOME RUN!" that doof is my dad. not actually my dad, but that is what my dad would do

i've heard your dad yelling 'get in the hole!' at countless golf tournaments

dear Jim Kaat,

please stfu

nice to see that McCutch swing again.

kim kaat sure does know a lot about the ways of the Japanese and has spent a lot of time thinking about how they are different than the American ways

jim kaat

lol kim kaat

illegal stream playing wonderwall during commercial breaks right after the japan home run is the absolute worst. mlb.tv i blame you for this.

Haha, same RENEGADE STREAM here. This YouTube flotsom in place of commercials is driving me nuts.

I did laugh at the Thomas the Train remix one.

PR vs USA is a dream final.

I can't root for any team Hosmer plays for.

"Wonderwall" sounds a lot better than that goddamn band going most of the night in Dodger Stadium.

Jim Kaat also sees Aaron as the US home run king "in my estimation." Take your estimation to the early-bird diner dinner.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7je9GKXwAUv7vc.jpg

...

i fell asleep reading that

kinda surprised that Real Americans haven't been calling out all the italian-americans who played for italy or jewish americans who played for israel etc. as traitors

https://twitter.com/nycguidovoice/status/802982411474636800 i guess

Posey resting. Huge mistake. He is Buster Posey.

stroman was pretty sassy out there

oh god did leyland actually make arenado bunt

well that is going to be hard to come back from.

VHS, can you make the Giants thread this year?

(i also really hope you are voting in the Talking Heads poll)

Sure, and yes, I chose my #1 today.

Congrats americans of the board, it's well deserved after a difficult year and I'd ... wait is everyone sleeping already?

i was rooting for PR

i assumed everyone else was too

i was rooting for the netherlands

honkbal 4eva

i was sleeping

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/nate-freiman-team-israel-baseball

there will be no world baseball classic in 2021

dud