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Shawn Spradling

1 year

Here is everything you need to know about all 20 national teams in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, in infographic form. A thread. ⬇️

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7 months

No. Way. Rintaro Sasaki is the #1 high school prospect in Japan. 6’0, 250 lbs. He holds the record for most HR in Japanese HS history: 140. He has officially decided to skip his application for the NPB Draft…and will come to the US to play in college.

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1 year

“These two weeks are going to attract so many young players in Mexico, and Mexicans that live abroad. For that reason, I believe this was a victory even though we didn’t win today.” - Mexico manager Benji Gil 🇲🇽

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THIS IS SO COOL Duque Hebbert, the Nicaraguan pitcher who struck out Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez, and Rafael Devers in the 9th, signed with the Tigers org following today’s game. A scout was impressed by him, stopped him before he left the stadium, and offered him a contract.🇳🇮

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2 months

Opening Day (Mamiko’s Version)

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There’s been just as many cutaways of Mamiko Tanaka (Shohei Ohtani’s wife) in game one of the Seoul Series than of Taylor Swift during the Super Bowl.

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2023 #1 overall pick (Paul Skenes) vs 2022 #1 overall pick (Jackson Holliday) with 2021 #1 overall pick (Henry Davis) behind the plate and 2019 #1 overall pick (Adley Rutschman) waiting on deck The MLB Draft Equinox

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9 months

This photo of a baseball game in Bhutan is absolutely breathtaking.

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7 months

Dean Kremer. Israeli-American dual-citizen. 🇮🇱🇺🇸 Pitched for the Israeli National Team in the World Baseball Classic. He’s the Orioles starting pitcher for Game 3 of the ALDS tonight. He has family in Israel. “I still want to pitch, but its gonna be in the back of my head.”

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1 year

“I thought it was manga.” - Kazuma Okamoto on watching the Ohtani/Trout at-bat

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1 year

Shugo Maki: World Champion. 🇯🇵

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1 year

Check out this Korean hitting instructor’s hula hoop drill. I’ve seen a variation of this once or twice, but I really like the way it’s shown here.

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@Shawn_Spradling

3 months

The Cincinnati Reds have signed the 18-year-old (turns 19 tomorrow) infielder from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico with one of the most baseball names ever: Ichiro Cano Hernández 🇲🇽

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1 year

🇯🇵WBC NEWS - JAPAN🇯🇵 Lars Nootbaar is committed to play for Japan in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Born and raised in El Segundo, California, Nootbaar will be the first player in Samurai Japan HISTORY to be born outside of Japan.

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11 months

Dylan Crews reached base in every single game this season, ending his college career with a 75-game streak. A historic college player. The no-doubt #1 overall pick in 2 weeks.

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8 months

Shohei Ohtani gave us one of the greatest years in baseball history. It’s so disappointing seeing it come to an end, but we can still recognize how truly spectacular it was.

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1 year

Per @YordiMLB , Ivan Prieto (Cuba’s bullpen catcher) left the Cuban National Team last night prior to the team returning home from Miami this morning. He is now the first ever player to leave Team Cuba during a World Baseball Classic.

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11 months

In soccer, Mexico’s sport, USA is unbeaten against Mexico in their last 6 matches. In baseball, USA’s sport, Mexico is unbeaten against USA in their last 3 WBC games. What.

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2 months

Shohei and Ippei have been friends since 2013. We have no idea what the outcome of this mess will be, but it just makes me sad.

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2 months

Mamiko Tanaka: a normal Japanese woman

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1 year

Lars Nootbaar gave the pregame speech today. Samurai Japan proceeded to defeat Korea, their biggest rival, 13-4.

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1 year

These are two different people

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1 year

Top 10 2023 WBC International “Prospects” per @BaseballAmerica : 1. 🇯🇵Roki Sasaki 2. 🇯🇵Yoshinobu Yamamoto 3. 🇯🇵Munetaka Murakami 4. 🇰🇷Lee Jung-hoo 5. 🇨🇺Liván Moinelo 6. 🇨🇺Raidel Martínez 7. 🇰🇷Kang Baek-ho 8. 🇨🇺Yariel Rodríguez 9. 🇰🇷Kim Hye-seong 10.🇦🇺Mitch Neunborn

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6 months

Shohei Ohtani announced that he is donating baseball gloves to every single elementary school in Japan, totaling 60k gloves to 20k schools. On his IG post: “I’ll be looking forward to sharing the field one day with someone that grew up using this glove!”

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1 year

🇯🇵 WBC NEWS - JAPAN 🇯🇵 BREAKING: There is mutual interest between Samurai Japan and Christian Yelich for him to represent Japan in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Yelich’s grandfather is Japanese. He played for Team USA in the 2017 WBC.

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1 year

Today, in his MLB debut, Shintaro Fujinami faced off against Shohei Ohtani in Oakland. Over a decade ago, Ohtani and Fujinami faced off in the Koshien high school tournament. 🇯🇵 Ohtani hit a HR.

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2 years

If Sadie doesn’t get to throw out the first pitch of Game 1 of the World Series at Minute Maid Park, we riot.

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@Shawn_Spradling

6 months

Happy Halloween! ハッピーハロウィン!

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1 year

The Mexico vs Japan starting pitching matchup for Monday night’s WBC semifinal: 🇲🇽Patrick Sandoval vs 🇯🇵Roki Sasaki

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2 months

A 2024 jersey swap I never could’ve predicted: Anthony Volpe 🤝 Robinson Cano

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1 year

Me: Ippei-san, may I get a picture with you? Ippei: me? Me: YES YOU

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@Shawn_Spradling

1 year

To no one’s surprise, Roki Sasaki was almost totally unhittable in his first start back from the WBC 🇯🇵 6.0 IP 1 H 0 ER 11 K 0 BB 102 mph top velo As a reminder, he is 21 years old.

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1 year

Baseball history. Lars Nootbaar’s first plate appearance for Samurai Japan. He becomes the first player born outside of Japan to play for the Japanese national team. 🇯🇵 And he got a hit.

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1 year

🇯🇵 TEAM JAPAN WBC NEWS 🇯🇵 Multiple sources have confirmed that Steven Kwan and Lars Nootbaar will be invited to join Team Japan in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. This would be the first time in HISTORY a player born outside of Japan would play for Samurai Japan!

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1 year

Monterrey, México 🇲🇽

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1 year

If MLB were to expand, which city should get a team?

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11 months

He is on pace for the most H, HR, R, RBI, & highest OPS of his career. He is holding a ~3.00 ERA & is on pace for the most K of his career. The above includes both MLB & NPB. He is also a World Champion this year. Shohei Ohtani is having the greatest year of his…life?

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2 years

This just took a decade off my life.

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2 years

Framber’s numbers in 50 regular season games since Carlos single-handedly lit a fire under his butt: • 2.81 ERA • 1.17 WHIP • 301 Ks • 6.6 rWAR • 27-11 record • 40 QS (25 straight, single-season record)

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1 year

Kiké Hernandez, walking arrogantly through the opposing club’s dugout. Can’t imagine many of them like him.

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First look at Rintaro Sasaki obliterating baseballs in Stanford gear 🇯🇵

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1 year

Pretty crazy story 🤯 The Dominican Republic’s WBC GM made the roster as a player too. He impressed the Padres enough to get a contract from them this MLB season. Today he becomes the first general manager to homer in MLB history. GMs are athletes too.

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4 years

We officially broke Twitter

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MLB ball vs NPB ball

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7 months

Merrill Kelly started his first game of the year on March 15, pitching for his country in the World Baseball Classic. 7.5 months and 200+ IP later, he just threw the greatest game of his career in the World Series. What. A. Year.

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1 year

The Korean call of Kim Ha-seong’s walk-off HR is easily the best thing I heard tonight.

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2 months

Former Baltimore Orioles teammates Hyun-Soo Kim and Manny Machado. Reunited. 🥹

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6 months

Both MVPs played in the WBC this year. 🙂

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1 year

I have never seen so much emotion on Mike Trout’s face.

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1 year

There is one thing in this life that Shohei Ohtani cannot do: Zip a jacket

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2 years

Before each game this season, the amazing @JuliaMorales took a “pregame pic” in the Astros dugout. Here is every pic this year (and some bonus peanut content at the end)

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1 year

Roki Sasaki 🇯🇵 • Pitching prodigy • World Champion • 2027 Cy Young winner • Very kind dude

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5 months

ESPN announced they will be televising the 2024 Seoul Series 🇰🇷 San Diego Padres vs Los Angeles Dodgers Seoul, South Korea March 20-21, 6am ET • The opening series of the 2024 MLB regular season • First ever MLB regular season game(s) played in South Korea • Ha-seong Kim’s…

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1 year

OHTANI JUST WENT DEEP TO DEAD CENTER WITH THAT SWING ARE YOU KIDDING ME

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3 months

Paul Skenes: considered by many in the USA to be the greatest pitching prospect ever. 🇺🇸 Roki Sasaki: considered by many in Japan to be the most talented Japanese pitcher ever. 🇯🇵 Born only 207 days apart. I hope we get to see them compete against each other someday.

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1 year

The total attendance for the 2023 World Baseball Classic: 1,306,414

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11 months

2023 World Baseball WAR Leaderboard, as of June 5.

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1 year

My New Year’s 2023 World Baseball Classic Power Rankings.

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1 year

SHOHEI OHTANI DID THE RANDY AROZARENA 🇯🇵 | 🇲🇽

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1 year

Here is the coolest thing you’ll see on baseball twitter today

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6 months

Two players have won MLB MVP and the WBC in the same year: 2017 - 🇺🇸Giancarlo Stanton 2023 - 🇯🇵Shohei Ohtani

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1 year

Shohei Ohtani, for the first time in over 6 years, back in the Samurai Japan uniform. 🇯🇵

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3 months

Shintaro Fujinami and Kodai Senga. Mets.

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Baseball is growing in Mexico: Exhibit A 🇲🇽

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3 months

Stanford Baseball fans, get ready for Rintaro Sasaki. 🇯🇵 • 6’0, 250 lbs • #1 Japanese HS prospect • Holds the all-time Japanese HS HR record: 140 • Skipped the NPB Draft to come play college ball in the USA • Will be eligible to enter the MLB Draft

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1 year

omg

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2 months

SHOHEI OHTANI’S WIFE REVEAL!!! He posted this photo on IG with Japanese basketball player Mamiko Tanaka 🇯🇵

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11 months

Now here’s the crazy part. Elly De La Cruz, right? Who are the two players everyone is comparing him to most? 1. Oneil Cruz 2. Fernando Tatis Jr. What do all 3 have in common? They’ll all be together in the Dominican lineup in the 2026 WBC. No doubt. 🇩🇴

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1 year

A Nicaraguan fan: “Today Nicaragua plays for the first time in the WBC, instead of wearing my country’s jersey, I decided to wear the great human Roberto Clemente’s Jersey #21 .” Clemente died in a plane crash delivering supplies to Nicaragua following a devastating earthquake.

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1 year

This has to be the most insane Opening Day game I’ve ever seen. The Diablos Rojos del México overcame a 0-10 deficit to win 12-10 on a 2 out, 2 strike walk-off grand slam by Japhet Amador. 🇲🇽 TEN RUNS. WALK-OFF GRAND SLAM.

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1 year

Lars Nootbaar has officially hit 1 MILLION followers on Instagram…before the WBC, he was at 60k. He has become an international superstar almost overnight.

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1 year

A sign in LF at LoanDepot Park: “VIVA CUBA LIBRE DE DICTADURA” “Libertad” (freedom) chants have also broken out in the stadium.

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1 year

For the next 2 weeks, Jean Segura and Luis Arráez are not brahs.

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1 year

…Harry Styles just congratulated Japan on winning the WBC. That’s a real thing that just happened.

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6 months

Shohei Ohtani’s 2023: • Unanimous AL MVP • Donated 60k gloves to Japanese elementary schools • World Champion

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7 months

Here is your Rintaro Sasaki summary: •6’0, 250 lbs •1B •“Japanese Prince Fielder” •Holds 🇯🇵 HS HR record: 150 •By coming to a 🇺🇸 college, he won’t be subject to intl bonus pool money. He can enter the MLB Draft •Intl players can’t receive NIL deals

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3 months

HOLY. YASIEL PUIG CRUSHED THAT. 3-1 LA GUAIRA.

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1 year

Japanese soccer players have started doing Lars Nootbaar’s pepper grinder celebration 🤯

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7 months

The 2023 World Baseball WAR Leaderboard.

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@Shawn_Spradling

10 months

If his season is over, here are Roki Sasaki’s 2023 numbers: 85 IP 7-2 1.48 ERA 0.72 FIP 0.71 WHIP 130 K / 15 BB 99mph avg FB velocity 5.1 WAR He was putting together a truly historic season.

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1 year

This is the greatest Mexican National Baseball Team of all time.

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5 months

The Dodgers getting Randy right after Shohei would be *the* ultimate WBC full-circle moment. The 2023 World Baseball Classic was largely defined by those two.

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2 years

Polar opposites Bryce Harper •6’3, 210 •At 16, dubbed “Baseball’s Chosen One” on SI cover • #1 draft pick •Signed for $9.9m Jose Altuve •5’6, 165 •At 16, attended tryout & asked not to come back •Undrafted FA •Signed for $15k Both MVPs. Both future HOFers. Both leaders.

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5 years

The year is 2011 -Astros go 56-106 -Gerrit Cole gets drafted #1 overall -Zack Greinke wins 16 games with 201 Ks -Justin Verlander wins AL MVP 2019:

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20-year-old Ugandan catcher, and social media sensation, Dennis Kasumba, catching 9-year NPB veteran Japanese pitcher Shingo Hirata’s warm-up pitches. Really cool moment. 🇺🇬 | 🇯🇵

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1 year

How the All-WBC Team is doing so far this MLB season: 🇯🇵Ohtani: .306/.419/.611 🇻🇪Perez: .237/.275/.447 🇹🇼Chang: .000/.000/.000 🇵🇷Baez: .121/.171/.121 🇨🇺Moncada: .308/.325/.564 🇺🇸Turner: .349/.378/.465 🇲🇽Arozarena .359/.444/.590 🇺🇸Trout: .306/.468/.611 🇯🇵Yoshida: .235/.366/.353

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1 year

HUGE NEWS. Per @francysromeroFR , following the WBC, Cuban RHP Yariel RodrÍguez has broken his contract with the Chunichi Dragons and the Cuban Baseball Federation. Rodríguez arrived in the Dominican Republic this morning, and hopes to sign with an MLB team in the near future.

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Rintaro Sasaki coming to play college ball in the states is massive, of course. But I would argue it’s just as significant culturally as it is on the field. The #1 Japanese high school player choosing to skip NPB to play college ball here is already unprecedented. He’s…

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1 year

The pitching matchup for tomorrow night’s WBC semifinal game has been announced: 🇵🇷Marcus Stroman vs 🇲🇽Julio Urías

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1 year

This is one of the greatest moments in US National Team history, in any sport. 🇺🇸

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Baseball major league champions this year, and the length of drought they ended: 🇺🇸Texas Rangers: 62 years 🇯🇵Hanshin Tigers: 38 years 🇰🇷LG Twins: 29 years 🇹🇼Wei Chuan Dragons: 24 years Just two weeks ago, none of them had won a title in the 21st century.

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My 2026 WBC “Way-Too-Early” Lineup Predictions. Samurai Japan🇯🇵

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1 year

Ken Rosenthal: “where would you rank this moment?” Trea Turner: “it’s probably #1 , HR-wise.” Ken: “You got better?” Trea: “No, I don’t.”

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Team Puerto Rico has released their jersey for the World Baseball Classic. 🇵🇷

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good morning

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Nootbaar is coming back home a changed man after this WBC. You can’t play in that atmosphere and it not impact you.

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KOREAN BASEBALL HISTORY 🇰🇷 Hanwha Eagles RHP Moon Dong-ju has become the first ever Korean pitcher to throw 100 mph (160. 1 km/h). He is 19 years old.

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1 year

Colombia beat Mexico Mexico beat USA USA beat Great Britain Great Britain beat Colombia Just as everyone predicted

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1 year

Tonight’s Braves/Orioles pitching matchup is a historic one. 🇮🇱 Max Fried vs Dean Kremer Per @JewishBBMuseum , it is the 5th time two Jewish starting pitchers have faced off in MLB history. It is the first time since 1977.

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One year ago today, we witnessed one of the greatest moments in baseball history. Shohei Ohtani vs Mike Trout The 2023 World Baseball Classic

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The @SFGiants and @Padres have changed their profile pics ahead of this weekend’s Mexico series. 🇲🇽

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This is Mr. Yosh Fukushima. 🇯🇵 He has covered MLB in Japan for 50 years. Incredible. I wanted to know how he has seen baseball change, in both MLB and in Japan, over that time. I could have listened to his stories for hours.

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