I was able to find the WBC provisional rosters as they are right now in this PDF file:
2013-World-Baseball-Classic-Provisional-Rosters_011713
You’re welcome.
The WBC provisional rosters as they are now
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Late World Baseball Classic news for January 12 (Part 1 of who-knows-how-many, 6:00 PM)
World Baseball Classic news that I didn’t have during my “Who’s In/Out/In-Between” and my other posts earlier today. They will be edited in to tomorrow’s edition of my listings for the WBC:
- Mike Trout won’t be playing for Team USA, opting to go into camp for what will be his first full year in the big leagues. While this is a big publicity hit for the WBC (since it will now lack both Trout and Bryce Harper, the two big rookie phenoms of last season), it probably won’t hurt Team USA that much, thanks to the heavy depth of outfield choices (Ryan Braun, Adam Jones and Shane Victorino have already confirmed, for example, and there have been past indications about Jay Bruce and/or Giancarlo Stanton).
- Oh, and speak of the devil: Giancarlo Stanton is in for Team USA! Seriously, I read that shortly after I finished typing his name above.
- Jason Bay isn’t on the Canadian roster because he has to fight for a spot in the Mariners lineup (wow, how the mighty have fallen), Jeff Francis is a similar deal. However, as I mentioned in my post about Canada’s first 23, Joey Votto is going to play so long as he passes a physical for insurance purposes. Also, there is a small flicker of hope on Ryan Dempster.
Six days or so until 28-man rosters come out for the World Baseball Classic
Saw this from MLB.com’s Angels beat writer Alden Gonzalez:
Preliminary 28-man rosters for all 16 clubs participating in the World Baseball Classic will be announced next Thursday, the 17th.
— Alden Gonzalez (@Alden_Gonzalez) January 11, 2013
So, yeah, there you go. The preliminary rosters for the WBC will be revealed on January 17.
Of course, I’ll continue doing the “Who’s in/out/in-between”, and in fact I should have another one up later today.
As of 10:03 PM of December 4, 2012, here’s who is IN and OUT of the 2013 WBC
Here’s an update of yesterday’s post. To save space, go after the jump to see the list.
My WBC Projections as of Nov. 4, 2012
One of the most popular parts of the Baseball Continuum have been the WBC roster projections. Therefore, here’s a look at my roster projections so far, with links to the most recent versions of each roster, in descending order of freshness (the higher up they are, the more recent the roster projection):
Dominican Republic (Version 2.0)
United States of America (Version 2.00001)
The following countries are in various stages of projection development: Japan, Cuba, Korea, Taipei, revamps of Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
2013 WBC Team USA projections Version 2.0
(EDITED IN ON DEC. 31: As of this writing, the most recent projection for the United States can be found here.)
Since my last projection for the Team USA roster, some guys have said definitively they won’t take part, others have said they would like to, some have gotten injured, and still others haven’t said anything. Therefore, this is a total rebuild of my projections for Team USA, done from near-scratch as if I had never done my previous projections. I still will note the changes at the end of this post, however.
A refresher on my selection rules/assumptions:
- Any player coming off a major injury or who has a history of injuries is unlikely to participate. This is especially true for the pitchers.
- Players that will be on new teams are less likely to participate, but shouldn’t be completely ignored, with the exception of pitchers.
- Teams are made up of 28 players, of which 13 of them must be pitchers and two of them catchers.
- The pitch count rules make relievers extremely important.
So after much research and thought, go after the jump for my latest projections for Team USA.
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