The (relevant) World Baseball Classic Rosters
United States
C - Brian McCann, Chris Ianetta, A.J. Pierzynski, Brian Schneider
1B - Derrek Lee, Kevin Youkilis
2B - Mark DeRosa. Dustin Pedroia, Brian Roberts
SS - Derek Jeter, Jimmy Rollins
3B - Chipper Jones, Evan Longoria, David Wright
OF - Ryan Braun, Curtis Granderson, Brad Hawpe, Ryan Ludwick, Carlos Quentin, Grady Sizemore, Shane Victorino, Vernon Wells
SP - John Danks, Jeremy Guthrie, Scott Kazmir, John Lackey, Ted Lilly, Roy Oswalt, Jake Peavy
RP -Jonathan Broxton, Joey Devine, Brian Fuentes, J.P. Howell, Matt Lindstrom, Joe Nathan, J.J. Putz, Chad Qualls, B.J. Ryan, George Sherrill, Scot Shields, Matt Thorton, Justin Verlander, Brad Ziegler
Dominican Republic:
C - Wilkin Castillo, Miguel Olivo, Ronny Paulino
1B - Carlos Pena, Albert Pujols
2B - Adrian Beltre, Robinson Cano, Placido Polanco
SS - Jhonny Peralta, Hanley Ramirez, Jose Reyes, Miguel Tejada
3B - Aramis Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez
OF - Moises Alou, Melky Cabrera, Vladamir Guerrero, Jose Guillen, Alfonso Soriano, Willy Taveras
SP - Daniel Cabrera, Fausto Carmona, Johnny Cueto, Ualdo Jimenez, Fransisco Liriano, Pedro Martinez, Odalis Perez, Wandy Rodriguez, Ervin Santana, Edison Volquez
RP - Jose Arredondo, Santiago Casilla, Fransisco Cordero, Juan Cruz, Octavio Dotel, Carlos Marmol, Damaso Marte, Tony Pena, Rafael Perez, Edwar Ramirez, Ramon Ramirez, Frenando Rodney, Jose Valverde, Jose Veras
Venezuela:
C - Henry Blanco, Ramon Hernandez, Dioner Navarro, Humberto Quintero, Max Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval
1B - Carlos Guillen, Oscar Salazar
2B - Alex Cabrera, Jose Lopez
SS - Cesar Izturis, Macier Izturis, Marco Scutaro, Omar Visquel
3B - Miguel Cabrera, Melvin Mora
INF - Edgar Alonzo, Jose Castillo, Jesus Guzman
OF - Bobby Abreu, George Blanco, Endy Chavez, Carlos Gonzalez, Magglio Ordonez, Gerardo Parra, Juan Rivera
SP - Armando Galarraga, Angel Guzman, Felix Hernandez, Anibal Sanchez, Johan Santana, Carlos Silva, Carlos Zambrano
RP - Jose Ascanio, Rafael Bentacourt, Carlos Carrasco, Cesar Jimenez, Jorge Julio, Jose Mijares, Victor Moreno, Fernando Nieve, Renyel Pinto, Juan Rincon, Fransisco Rodriguez, Victor Zambrano
Puerto Rico:
C - Raul Casanova, Bengie Molina, Yadier Molina, Pudge, Geovany Soto, Javier Valentin
1B - Carlos Delgado
2B - Felipe Lopez
SS - Mike Aviles, Alex Cora,
3B - Mike Lowell, Ramon Vasquez
INF - Ivan DeJesus, Luis Figueroa, Andy Gonzalez, Jose Valentin,
OF - Carlos Beltran, Hiram Bocachica, Jesus Feliciano, Luis Matos, Alex Rios, Andres Torres, Bernie Williams
SP - Jonathan Sanchez, Ian Snell, Javier Vasquez, Joel Pineiro
RP - Giancarlo Alvarado, Federico Baez, Fernando Cabrera, Kiko Calero, Pedro Feliciano, Nelson Figueroa, Javier Lopez, Ivan Maldonado, Josue Matos, Juan Padilla, Saul Rivera, Orlando Roman, J.C. Romero, Jose Santiago, Tomas Santiago
Canada:
C - Cole Armstrong, Luke Carlin, George Kottaras, Pete Laforest, Brett Lawrie, Russell Martin, Chris Robinson, Max St. Pierre
1B - Justin Morneau, Joey Votto
2B - Pete Orr
SS - Chris Barnwell, Cale Iorg
3B - Shawn Bowman
OF - Jason Bay, Matt Stairs, Mark Teahen, Aaron Guile, Jamie Romak, Adam Stern, Nicholas Weglarz
SP - Chris Begg, Jesse Crain, Jeff Francis, Rich Harden
RP - Eric Gange, David Davidson
P - Phillipe Aumont, James Avery, T.J. Burton, Rheal Cormier, Eric Cyr, Scott Diamond, Bryan Dumesnil, Steve Green, Blake Hawksworth, Mike Johnson, Christopher Leroux, Kyle Lotzkar, Brooks McNiven, Alex Periard, Vince Perkings, Scott Richmond, R.J. Swindle, Phillipe-Alexandre Valiquette
Mexico:
C - Rod Barajas, Humberto Cota, Genonimo Gil, Miguel Ojeda
1B - Adrian Gonzalez
2B - Luis Cruz, Edgar Gonzalez, Augie Ojeda
SS - Jerry Hariston Jr., Omar Quintanilla
3B - Jorge Cantu, Freddy Sandoval
INF - Juan Castro, Erubiel Durazo, Augstin Murillo, Oscar Robles, Jorge Vasquez
OF - Alfredo Amezaga, Karim Garcia, Scott Hariston, Cristhian Presichi, Mario Vanezuela
SP - Matt Garza, Yovanni Gallardo, Jorge De La Rosa, Jorge Campillo, Oliver Perez
RP - Joakim Soria, Eddie Guardado, Luis Mendoza, Ricardo Rincon, Denny Reyes, Oscar Villarreal
P - Luis Ayala, Fransisco Campos, David Cortes, Elmer Dessens, Rafael Diaz, Edgar Gonzalez, Arturo Lopez, Rodrigo Lopez, Pablo Ortega, Heriberto Ruelas
Japan:
C - Kenji Johjima, Sinnosuke Abe, Toru Hosokawa, Yoshiyuki Ishihara, Shinji Takahashi
2B - Akinori Iwamura
INF - Yasuyuki Kataoka, Menenori Kawasaki, Kenta Kurihara, Nobuhiko Matsunaka, Suichi Murata, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Nishioka, Michihiro Ogasawara, Kensuke Tanaka
OF - Norichika Aoki, Kazuki Fukuchi, Kosuke Fukudome, Arsunoria Inaba, Yoshiyuki Kamei, Ichiro Suzuki, Seiichi Uchikawa
SP - Dice-K, Yu Darvish
RP - Masahide Kobayashi, Hideki Okajima
P - Kyuji Fujikawa, Hisashi Iwakuma, Minoru Iwata, Takayuki Kishi, Satoshi Komatsu, Takahiro Mahara, Katsuhiro Nagakawa, Toshiya Sugiuchi, Masaru Takeda, Masahiro Tanaka, Hayato Tehara, Tetsuya Utsumi, Tsuyoshi Wada, Hideaki Wakui, Shunsuke Wantanabe, Tetsuya Yamaguchi
Panama: the big names
C - Carlos Ruiz
OF - Carlos Lee
RP - Manny Acosta, Manny Corpas
Italy: the big names (no Mike Piazza)
C - Mike Napoli, Vinny Rottino
1B - Frank Catalanotto
SS - Nick Punto
RP - Jason Grilli, Mike DiFelice
The Netherlands: the big names (no Andruw Jones)
SP - Jair Jurrjens
RP - Rich VandenHurk
Australia: the big names
SP - Drew Naylor
RP - Grant Balfour, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Phil Stockman
Korea: the big names
OF - Shin-Soo Choo
Chinese Taipei: the big names (no Chien-Ming Wang)
No MLB players
China: the big names
No MLB players
Cuba: the big names
No MLB players
South Africa: the big names
No MLB players
I'm guessing japan will just alternate Dice-k and Darvish and win the whole thing.
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I am hoping Fukudome will play good and it will jump start him. He played good last time they won. We could use him this year and would have great balance in our lineup then.
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