World Baseball Classic
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The first World Baseball Classic was in 2006 and won by Team Japan. The Cubs had 4 players from their major league team participate[1]. It will be played again during spring training of 2009 and 7 Cubs were named on rosters [2].
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[edit] 2009
Kosukue Fukudome (Japan)
Geovany Soto (Puerto Rico)
Ted Lilly (USA)
Carlos Marmol (Dominican Republic
Vince Perkins* (Canada)
Alex Maestri** (Italy)
Hung-wen Chen** (Chinese Taipei)
*Non-Roster Invitee
**Minor League System
Carlos Zambrano was listed on the Team Venezuela roster but says he will not play.[1]
Source: 2009 WBC Rosters by Club
[edit] 2006
Michael Barrett (USA)
Derrek Lee (USA)
Carlos Zambrano (Venezuela)
Henry Blanco (Venezeula)
Derrek Lee hurt his shoulder during the tournament, but missed no regular season time.
Future Cub Kosuke Fukudome played for Team Japan. Future minor leaguer Alessandro Maestri played for Team Italy. Former Cubs Matt Stairs and Hee Seop Choi played for Team Canada and Team Korea.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Muskat, Carrie. "Zambrano reiterates he'll skip Classic". Cubs.mlb.com. February 2008. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090225&content_id=3880006&vkey=news_chc&fext=.jsp&c_id=chc&partnerId=rss_chc
[edit] External Links
2006 WBC Home Page [3]
Wikipedia Entry [4]
BR Bullpen Entry [5]
2006 Rosters [6]
