The World Baseball Classic is Coming

Get Ready

The World Baseball Classic is an event in which twenty countries compete to be the best in the world. This event occurs every four years and this year, in 2023, it will be held mostly in these for stadiums: Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan; Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan; Chase Field in Phoenix, USA; and the championship will be held in Loan Depot Park in Miami, USA. The highest ranked team in the world baseball tournament is the team from Japan, who have Shohei Ohtani, who currently plays for the Anaheim Angels. He is both a batter and a pitcher.

The US is currently ranked number three in the world and they are the reigning champions because they won in 2017. Team USA is playing their first game on March 11 at Chase Field when they play Great Britain. (Fun fact, is Great Britain’s first World Baseball Classic appearance!) After the Brits, team USA plays Mexico at Chase Field the next day. If you’re wondering, the United States’ lineup includes Trea Turner (Phillies), Will Smith and Mookie Betts (Dodgers), and many more.

Let’s go USA!

Here are the World Baseball rankings:

1 Japan

2 USA

3 Cuba

4 Chinese Taipei

5 Netherlands

6 Canada

7 Dominican Republic

8 Korea

9 Puerto Rico

10 Venezuela

11 Italy

12 Panama

13 Australia

14 Mexico

15 Brazil

16 Spain

17 Germany

18 Nicaragua

19 Colombia

20 Czech Republic

21 China

22 Israel

23 Philippines

25 Great Britain

26 New Zealand

27 France

28 Argentina

29 South Africa

30 Thailand