Looking to Olympics
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Looking to Olympics
Americans who have been successful in Korean and Japanese professional baseball, guys like Tyrone Woods and Alex Ochoa, would be good additions to the USA team in the Olympics, no? A team made up entirely of American minor leaguers would not have the same first hand experience of facing professional Asian pitchers that Americans who have played in NPB would have, and veterans like Woods and Ochoa could also impart a lot of good information to their younger teammates. Anybody out there have thoughts about this?
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Re: Looking to Olympics
[ Author: number9 | Posted: Apr 9, 2008 5:49 PM
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Jeff Williams and David "Dingo" Nilsson participated for Australia in Olympic baseball while playing for NPB teams, and I believe the NPB Korean players are going to do the same for Beijing.
I'm not sure if the general manager of the American team would even consider players on teams outside the MLB minor league system, though it should be a good idea in theory.
I'm not sure if the general manager of the American team would even consider players on teams outside the MLB minor league system, though it should be a good idea in theory.
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