r/InternationalBaseball

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This is how I would host the tournament! How would you guys do it or what would you change?

Qualifiers

The first thing to address is expanding the qualifiers. There needs to be a minimum of 10 teams in the qualifiers and it needs to be the same format as the main tournament. There would be 2 brackets with 5 teams. Top 2 teams advance and bottom team gets relegated. This would insure any country has a chance to play in the qualifiers. Eventually they will need a bigger expansion to the qualifiers but this would be acceptable for this upcoming tournament.

-Qualifier pool 1 Panama 🇵🇦 (Estadio Nacional Rod Carew)
Capacity 27000

Panama 🇵🇦
Nicaragua 🇳🇮
China 🇨🇳
South Africa 🇿🇦
Peru 🇵🇪

-Qualifier pool 2 Czechia 🇨🇿 (Eagles Park)
Capacity 1000

Czechia 🇨🇿
Brazil 🇧🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Spain 🇪🇸
France 🇫🇷
* Czechia will likely get renovation to stadium to increase capacity similarly to how Germany has in the past

Main tournament

-Pool A Toronto Canada 🇨🇦 (Rogers Center)
Capacity 39150

Canada 🇨🇦
USA 🇺🇸
Venezuela 🇻🇪
Great Britain 🇬🇧
Qualifier

Pool B Mexico City 🇲🇽 (Estadio Alfredo Harp Helu)
Capacity 20062

Mexico 🇲🇽
Italy 🇮🇹
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Australia 🇦🇺
Qualifier

Pool C Tokyo Japan 🇯🇵 (Tokyo Dome)
Capacity 43500

Japan 🇯🇵
Taiwan 🇹🇼
Korea 🇰🇷
Israel 🇮🇱
Qualifier

Pool D Miami USA🇺🇸 (Loan Depot Park)
Capacity 36742

Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Colombia 🇨🇴
Cuba 🇨🇺
Qualifier

Quarter finals

-Pool A and Pool B would meet at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles 🌴
Capacity 56000

-Pool C and Pool D would meet in Miami ☀️ at Loan Depot Park

Semi Finals and championship game

-Dodgers stadium USA 🇺🇸 🌴

The reasoning behind dodgers stadium is Capacity, Miami is good location wise but the capacity is beginning to hold it back. There would be no problem selling out dodger stadium no matter what teams are playing.

I’ve always wanted one place to follow international baseball without jumping between Wikipedia, WBSC pages, old articles, and scattered box scores, so I started building one:

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It has national team rankings, tournament histories, upcoming event windows, team pages, and player context for leagues like NPB/KBO/CPBL. The rankings are based on tournament results, strength of field, recency, and some calibrated friendly windows, so they’re meant to be transparent and argue-about-able.

The website is very early and is basically in its beta phase. If you follow the WBC, Premier12, Olympic baseball, APBC, Asian Games, etc., I’d genuinely love feedback on what’s missing or what data would make it more useful.

Yo, Shohei straight-up launched 200 off the Phils last night. I'm still hyped-dude's 31 and making history like it's nothing. Japan owning MLB rn, WBC next year is gonna be insane. Who ya got as their star? 2-peats? Let's goooo!