2009 world baseball classic Stories - SB Nation
Is The World Baseball Classic To Blame?
The World Baseball Classic seemed like a good idea at the time. The goals of the tournament have been modest: to ostensibly bring together the best players the world over in an effort to a) promote ba...
Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Congrats to Japan for repeating as World Baseball Classic champions! Japan played well and well earned their title after a very exciting 5-3 victory over South Korea in 10 innings. The gam...
WBC Pitch Speeds Revisited
After round one in Toronto, I found that each pitcher who played in a WBC game there was throwing the ball slower than a previous outing in the same park. Depending on which game you picked, you...
Monday Rockpile: Chris Iannetta to return today
Now that the United States has been eliminated from the World Baseball Classic we can all look forward to the Korea-Japan championship. Oh, and Chris Iannetta's return to Tucson. Here's a suggestion f...
Morning Prowl: No Hits, Porcello's Pitch Count, Bell's Beer, and Mauer's Back
It's not that big a deal that the Tigers were no-hit in yesterday's game, is it? Okay, it's embarrassing. Fortunately, with Team USA and Venezuela both losing in the WBC semi-f...
WBC Game Thread: March 22, 2009
United States vs. Japan, 8:00 PM (ESPN) World Baseball Classic, Semifinal #2 Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California The starting pitchers are Roy Oswalt (USA) and Daisuke Matsuzaka (JPN).
WBC Semifinals: 3/22/09: 2:00 MT
Here is your WBC Update for Sunday THERE ARE NO MORE POOLS VENEZUELA HAS BEEN ELIMINATED Korea: 10, Venezuela: 2 In yet another head-scratcher by Venezuela manager Luis Sojo, Venezuela SP Carlos S...
Washington Nationals Sunday Spotlight...Adam Dunn, Nick Johnson, Jesus Flores and Stephen Strasburg...
DO NOT TRADE NICK JOHNSON... I don't mean to pick on Adam Dunn, the Big Donkey, or Dunn-K, the Bigger Wilkerson or Big Wilky for short, but I do want Nick Johnson to remain on the Washington National...
WBC Semi-Final Starter Suk Min Yoon
Suk Min Yoon will face Carlos Silva in the first semi-final of the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Yoon has made one appearance already in a PITCHf/x park (Petco), against Japan on St. Patrick's Da...
Morning Prowl: Guillen Plays Third, Not Fab Freddy, Tales from Lakeland, and Love for Relievers
Who was that at third base for Team Venezuela last night? Carlos Guillen? Didn't he say he'd only play left field in the WBC? Giving his country what it needed, Guillen agreed...
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