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Olympic 2020: Baseball is back in Olympic Sports after a long time

The sport will be back in Tokyo in an even bigger way in 2020, when baseball rejoins the Olympic program at the 2020 Games. “We’re happy it’s back in the Olympics,” said Jim Small, the MLB senior vice president international. “We think it’s only a good thing for baseball around the world.”

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That the sport’s 12-year absence from the Olympics will end there. Baseball is the most popular sport in Japan, and it has been for a long time.

“Baseball is still No.1 on polls,” a best-selling author who has written about Japanese baseball. “Here the sixty percent of people say baseball is their favorite sport,” said Robert Whiting.

Robert Whiting wrote baseball arrived in Japan in the 1870s, when a couple American teachers had their students play it. Then, in 1915, the Koshien high school baseball tournament began. More than a century later, Koshien remains one of the most popular events in Japan. It turns the teen players into national celebrities and draws sellout crowds with TV ratings sometimes as high as 60 percent. Whiting has described it as the country’s equivalent of the United States’ Super Bowl and World Series.

All the while, “America's pastime” has forged deep bonds in the Land of the Rising Sun.

American major leagues have sent star players to Japan many times to play a series of games after the regular season ended, including way back in 1934, when Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were on the trip. Those appearances were vastly popular, and Japan’s professional league started soon after.

  The 2019 games drew very enthusiastic sellout crowds of more than 45,000 fans who would stand and cheer, with a great many wearing Ichiro Suzuki jerseys and holding up signs in his honor. The Mariners’ participation in the Tokyo series was no coincidence.

In 2001, the speedy Ichiro left his native Japan to join the Mariners, where he promptly won the MVP Award while leading Seattle to a record 116 wins. After five and a half seasons away from Seattle, Ichiro returned in 2018 and then retired after this year’s opening series in Tokyo.

Former pitcher Shigetoshi Hasegawa said that Ichiro is so popular in Japan that “he is not just a baseball player. He is like Madonna and Michael Jackson.” 

No wonder, then, that there is an Ichiro museum in Nagoya where he grew up. There also are museums for Hideki Matsui and Daisuke Matsuzaka — other Japanese stars who followed Ichiro to MLB stardom — in other cities, just another example of baseball popularity there.

For all of the shared ties between Japanese and U.S. baseball, nowJapan has developed its own unique qualities, too. During their regular-season games, some Japanese fans will bang thunder stix, blow horns and sing in the organized rooting sections. During the Mariners-Athletics series, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” was even being played at the subway stop next to the Tokyo Dome.

With that fan passion — and with Japan also guaranteed to compete in the sport with a host nation berth — the Olympic baseball games will certainly draw boisterous crowds as well. The games will be played at Yokohama The stadium, a nice, open-air ballpark that is roughly 20 miles outside of Tokyo, and Fukushima’s Azuma Stadium, which is 150 miles away.

The host country Japan will certainly be among the favorites in 2020.

Almost 60 Japanese players have come over to the U.S. to play in the majors, virtually all after Hideo Nomo signed with the Dodgers in 1995. The most popular of the current players is Shohei Ohtani, both a pitcher and hitter like Babe Ruth was in his early days, and who was last year’s Rookie of the Year for the Los Angeles Angels.

Because they have so good players, Japan has won two World Baseball Classic. But it has not won a gold medal at the Olympic Games, where MLB players haven’t participated, taking home two bronze medals and one silver.

One thing is for sure, though: The Japanese definitely will work hard to win gold, as they always do in baseball.

For instance, players in Japan are required to practice much longer and harder than players in the U.S. Some pitchers sometimes throw 300 pitches in a session each week, while there are fungo drills where fielders take 200 to 300 grounders, which can wear on a player. 

“During spring training camp, it’s long, like nine or 10 hours,” said pitcher Yusei Kikuchi, who left the Seibu Lions and signed with the Seattle Mariners this winter. “The more that you perform and do well, though, the more freedom you get. You get your practice and work in, and that’s another motivator to get better.”

Japan could quite possibly win its first baseball gold medal. With many, many fans cheering madly.

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Olympic Baseball: WBSC President hails player agreement with MLB and MLBPA for Tokyo Olympic qualifiers

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) President Riccardo Fraccari surrendered they are "energized" to have consented to permit players on Major League Baseball (MLB) 40-man records to look into the Tokyo Olympic Games and the different qualifiers.

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As a component of the understanding, national gathering program sizes will increase from 24 players to 26 for the WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier, on account of occur from March 22 to 26 in Arizona, and the WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier intended to be held in Taiwanese urban regions Taichung and Douliu from June 17 to 21, to protect the quality of the players and hinder potential exhaustion.

According to the comprehension between the WBSC, MLB and MLB Players Association (MLBPA), national gatherings will have the choice to pick any MLB-banded together player, besides those on unique MLB 26-man programs.

The WBSC is eager to gather as one with MLB and the MLBPA to give a more prominent measure of the top rivals in the sport of baseball the most imperative regard of addressing their country similarly as the opportunity to play on the world's most prominent waving stage, the Summer Games, Fraccari said.

This organized exertion with the MLB and MLBPA is a further display of the typical will, together with other master relationship, to make baseball an extremely overall game and to add to the achievement of the Summer Games.

The appearance of Olympic baseball and softball is required to be one of the key attractions of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and we – to help our game and rivals far and wide - are doing all that we can to make it the most stimulating and genuine Olympic baseball event ever.

With different Canadian, Dominican and Puerto Rican prospects starting at now in the MLB system, the comprehension is seen as elevating news for a greater number of gatherings than just the United States. For example, Wander Franco, the primary chance in baseball according to MLB Pipeline, could play for the Dominican Republic.

Canadian pair Josh Naylor and Cal Quantrill, who both made their MLB shows up last season, are two more who may feature if they are not on the dynamic rundown of the San Diego Padres. The eight taking an intriguing nation with regards to the WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier fuse has the US, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. The champ of the event will obtain a spot at Tokyo Olympic.

The six gatherings fighting in the WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier fuse has Chinese Taipei, Australia, China, The Netherlands and the second-and third-place finishers from the WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier. The champ of the event will ensure about the sixth and last amount for Olympic 2020. Four nations have recently prepared for the Olympic baseball rivalry: has Japan, Israel, South Korea, and Mexico.

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Joe Girardi to Manage Team USA on the way to Olympics 2020

Joe Girardi is 54-year-old, Girardi works as an analyst for MLB Network. Baseball is back in the 2020 Summer Olympics to be staged in Japan and Joe Girardi are back as manager of Team USA, with the ultimate goal of gaining a berth and then winning the tournament. Olympic Baseball Fanatics can book Olympic Baseball Tickets Online from our most economical online ticketing market place.

“I look onward to leading Team USA as we struggle for a gold medal and look to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games,” he said in a statement.

Girardi hasn’t managed since he was unceremoniously dumped by the New York Yankees after their seven-game loss to the Houston Astros in the 2017 American League Championship Series, replaced by the untried and inexperienced Aaron Boone.

He’s been a television baseball analyst since then, but managing is certainly in his blood. He was a very good one, winning 2009 World Series as manager of the Yankees, and was named National League Manager of the Year in 2006 after his short stay with the then Florida Marlins. He was fired after that one season.

Girardi had a .562 winning percentage for his 10-year New York tenure, the highest of anyone managing in his era. As a former catcher, his ability to manage a bullpen and a pitching staff was second only to Bruce Bochy, now ending his 13-year stint with the San Francisco Giants and 25 years consecutive managing the Giants and San Diego Padres, who could still use him.

It would have been nice to have seen how Girardi might have fared with 2018, 100-win Yankees, who lost to Boston in a four-game AL Division Series when the pitching staff collapsed.

Boone has done a magnificent job this season patching together the often-injured Yankees, running away with the AL East. But manipulating a pitching staff is not his greatest attribute.

Be that as it may, Girardi is back in the game. And though he said Thursday morning during a short conference call that he’s not using his new job as a stepping stone to get back to the Majors, it certainly won’t hurt.

He’s following some greats as manager of the U.S. Olympic baseball team: Hall of Famers Tommy Lasorda and the late Frank Robinson, plus Davey Johnson, all had the job with many different results.

The Los Angeles Dodgers great managed the 2000 Team USA to its only Olympic gold medal in Sydney, Australia.

So just as when Girardi replaced Joe Torre as manager of the Yankees in 2008 after 12 consecutive playoff seasons, four World Series titles and six AL pennants, Girardi knows he has big shoes to fill.

“As far as following in some people’s footsteps, Tommy Lasorda has been a great ambassador for this game for a long, long time,” Girardi said about the now 91-year-old Lasorda who’s still a consultant for the Dodgers. “Whether it was a professional baseball or Olympic baseball.

“I had a chance to see Tommy last winter at the Italian American Hall of Fame. It was really an honor to see him. I hadn’t seen him in a while. Tommy has carried the torch for a long time so to follow in his footsteps is really pretty amazing.”

But there are just six teams going to this abbreviated 2020 Olympic baseball tournament and the U.S. must qualify first. As the host country, Japan earns an automatic spot.

The route this time begins with a qualifying tournament this coming Nov. 2-17. The U.S. will face tough teams from host Mexico, The Dominican Republic, and The Netherlands in the preliminary round at Guadalajara, Mexico.

Failing to qualify was a fate that befell Robinson’s team in 2003 when the U.S. lost a single-elimination game to Mexico during a preliminary round in hot and rainy Panama. Thus, the U.S. was not represented in its native sport during the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, where Cuba won it all.

Baseball hasn’t been in the Olympics since 2008 when South Korea won the gold and the U.S. captured the bronze under Johnson as a manager in Beijing, China.

The sport was dropped by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ostensibly because Major League Baseball refuses to send its top players, a la the NBA and NHL.

For the NBA, it’s easy since the Summer Olympics are staged every four years during pro basketball's offseason.

The NHL has taken two-week breaks in its own regular season for the Winter Olympics to accommodate the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Because of that, hockey and basketball always provide premier metal tournaments as countries around the world have become increasingly stronger.

Not so for Major League Baseball, which won’t take a break in its regular season to accommodate the Olympics and will still decline to send its best players, Girardi confirmed.

Baseball is back for the 2020 Olympics because the host country gets to pick a few of its own sports. And Nippon Professional Baseball is as big in Japan as MLB is in North America.

The Japanese have found a way around this problem by taking two players off the teams of each NPB team to stock its Olympic roster. NPB neither has to take a break in the season nor compromise the integrity of that season.

The Olympics and international baseball are the big winners. The future of baseball as an Olympic sport is uncertain beyond 2020 largely because MLB won’t change its stance.

“The player pool we’ll be picking from is a non-40-man roster players,” Girardi said. “And we’re going to put together the best we can. That could include some young guys who have just signed and are very, very talented, and that could include some old guys who’ve been in the big leagues and taken off the 40-man rosters.

“We have scouts all over the place looking to put this team together. We’re going to meet and talk about it and put the best team together we can.”

Perhaps just as important, Girardi said he’s committed to manage the club from Guadalajara to Tokyo, with one caveat: If a Major League the team is interested in bringing him back into the fold, he can at least listen.

“I will hear them out. I have permission to hear them out,” he said.

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Japanese Olympic baseball manager believes the host nation can win gold at Tokyo Olympic

The manager of the men's Japanese baseball team has said his side is still aiming for gold and hopes to "share the joy of a win" with fans at the postponed Tokyo Olympics. Atsunori Inaba, who was previously a player in Beijing 2008, said he was scouting players for the team ahead of the Games. He is hoping to guide the host nation to the gold medal to boost spirits following the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused the delay of the Olympics.

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"I'm scouting a lot of players," said Inaba.

Due to the COVID-19 limitations, I'm not showing up at the venues very often, but I watch a lot of television. I'm confident that the Games will happen next summer. I want to prepare well for the Games.

"My intention is winning a gold medal; I want to share the joy with all our fans."

The national team is set to hold a camp at the end of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) season, which would involve a series being played, so Inaba can look at the up-and-coming talent from across the country. Japan will head into the Games as one of the favorites having won the World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12 title in November.

"I still remember the joy and the celebration," said Inaba.

I want to build the Olympic team on the foundations of the Premier12 rosters. As I supposed, I'm also considering new and younger players. Currently, the NPB season is continuing under strict health guidelines. Japan is ranked number one in the world in men's baseball by a clear margin, in front of the United States, South Korea, Chinese Taipei, and Mexico.

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Israeli Baseball Team has Visions Set on Tokyo Olympics 2020

In the current European champion Israel ended 2nd in its pool with a record of 4-1 losing only on Wednesday the Netherlands follows victories over the Czech Republic Sweden Germany and Great Britain according to the JTA report. Baseball fans can book their Olympic baseball Tickets at economical prices from our reliable online ticketing place.

Israel will meet the France on Friday in the quarterfinals a round-robin race. JTA reported that the top five teams will advance to the World Baseball Softball Confederation Olympic Qualifier Europe-Africa tournament in Parma Italy, which starts on 18 Sept. The 6th team playing in that tournament will be South Africa which won the 2019 African Baseball Championship

According to the JTA report, the winner of the qualifier tournament will get a bid to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The runner-up will have another opportunity to qualify for Tokyo at a future qualifying event

The Israeli team’s calendar includes Jewish-American college players and some specialists. They had the country’s best showing in the last World Baseball Classic in 2017, surprising many by making the main tournament where it finished sixth.

A report on Thursday that appeared on the From the Gossip web site indicated that at the 2017 World Baseball Classic, the Israeli team stunned the international baseball public with four straight wins bringing a sense of history to the tournament. The Israeli team beat Korea in extra innings shocked Chinese Taipei defeated Cuba and played the Netherlands twice before falling to Japan in their final game.

ESPN dubbed the underdog Israeli team as “essentially the Mighty Ducks Hickory High and the Jamaican bobsled team all rolled into one. That winning period is now the subject of a new documentary called Heading Home the Tale of Team Israel.”

While the World Baseball Classic only requires that players be eligible for citizenship of the country they represent for Olympic qualifying tournaments and for the actual Olympics players must be citizens of the country they represent according to the JTA report.

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Women’s Baseball World Qualifier: Canada falls in aslant loss to the USA

Mexico – After three wins to open the COPABE Women’s Baseball World qualifier, the Canadian Women’s National Team dropped its first game of the tournament in a 21-4 lopsided loss to Team USA on Wednesday.

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The squad from north of the border notched eight hits in the matchup, the offense led by multi-hit games from 16-year-old Ellie Jespersen and 21-year-old Kelsey Lalor, but couldn’t solve the American pitching any further. Team Canada’s staff was undone by eight-run frames from the USA in both the fourth and seventh to dig into a hole too deep to climb out of.

“It’s a wakeup call,” Canadian manager Aaron Myette said. “We were chatting before the game about how we came out flat yesterday, and then we came out a little flat today, lacking intensity. As a group, what we can take away from that is that we need to be on point for every game.

“We’ve got to be prepared and not just come in and hope that we get things started later in the game. We’ve got to start from the minute we show up to the park, be mentally prepared and focused on each game.”

The Americans scored 21 runs on 23 hits, also capitalizing on five walks and four errors from the Canadian a national team to earn their fourth straight victory of the qualifier, while Canada moves to 3-1 in the tournament.

“They’re a fantastic team,” Myette said of the USA. “They have a ton of good arms and a very strong lineup. The runs and hits speak for themselves. They hit balls hard today, and you have to give them credit for hitting pitches hard. We made a lot of mistakes and got away from our strengths and our game plan, and pitched into their strength and their game plan. That’s an adjustment we have to make.”

Amanda Asay (Prince George, BC) got the start for the Canadian squad and the 14-year national team veteran allowed four runs (three earned) on four hits with three strikeouts, before making way for two relievers.

The leader on a team with 10 different players from last year’s bronze-medal winning World Cup squad and eight players facing international competition for the first time, Asay hopes the young team can learn from Wednesday’s game to help it as it moves forward in the event.

“Luckily, this came in the middle of the tournament,” Asay said. “It may be a devastating loss because of the score, but not so devastating in the standings, which is nice. It’s not the worst thing that we got to experience a loss before we came to the end of this tournament because it will be good to build from here and to have something to come away from and refocus us a little bit. Our game against Cuba didn’t go as smoothly as we would have liked, so this is a wakeup call that we can all take away from.”

Heading into Thursday’s matchup against Venezuela, before Team Canada takes on Puerto Rico and Mexico ahead of Sunday’s medal games, the squad’s skipper hopes his players can learn from the loss and quickly look ahead to what’s next.

“I’d like them to individually look at their performances and self-assess where they could have been more focused – that’s the first step,” Myette said. “As a group, they’ve got to understand they’re not going to go through their whole lives undefeated, but it’s about what we do now. We got our butts kicked, but it’s baseball.

“We have another game, we have another day, and we’re not out of this. We’re going to look at what we could have done better, make adjustments and come out stronger, more aggressive and more focused. The feeling we had today sucks, so we’re going to come to the park with the mentality that we’re not letting that happen again.”

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Olympic Baseball: WBSC President hails player agreement with MLB and MLBPA for Olympic 2020 qualifiers

World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) President Riccardo Fraccari conceded they are "excited" to have agreed to allow players on Major League Baseball (MLB) 40-man lists to take an interest in the Tokyo Olympic Games and the separate qualifiers.

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As a feature of the understanding, national group program sizes will increment from 24 players to 26 for the WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier, because of happening from March 22 to 26 in Arizona and the WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier planned to be held in Taiwanese urban areas Taichung and Douliu from June 17 to 21, to defend the strength of the players and forestall potential weariness.

As per the understanding between the WBSC, MLB and MLB Players Association (MLBPA), national groups will have the option to choose any MLB-partnered player, aside from those on dynamic MLB 26-man programs.

The WBSC is excited to band together with MLB and the MLBPA to give a greater amount of the top competitors in the game of baseball the most noteworthy respect of speaking to their nation just as the chance to play on the world's greatest brandishing stage, the Summer Games, Fraccari said.

"This coordinated effort with the MLB and MLBPA is a further exhibition of the normal will, together with other expert associations, to make baseball a really worldwide game and to add to the accomplishment of the Summer Games.

The arrival of Olympic baseball and softball is required to be one of the fundamental attractions of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and we – for the benefit of our game and competitors around the world - are doing all that we can to make it the most energizing and serious Olympic baseball occasion ever.

With various Canadian, Dominican and Puerto Rican prospects as of now in the MLB framework, the understanding is viewed as uplifting news for a bigger number of groups than simply the United States. For instance, Wander Franco, the main possibility in baseball as per MLB Pipeline could play for the Dominican Republic.

Canadian pair Josh Naylor and Cal Quantrill, who both made their MLB makes a big appearance last season, are two more who might highlight in the event that they are not on the dynamic list of the San Diego Padres.

The eight taking an interesting country in the WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier incorporate hosts the US, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The champ of the occasion will acquire a spot at Tokyo Olympic.

The six groups contending in the WBSC Baseball Final Qualifier incorporate hosts Chinese Taipei, Australia, China, The Netherlands and the second-and third-place finishers from the WBSC Baseball Americas Qualifier.

The champ of the occasion will make sure about the 6th and last quantity for Olympic 2020. Four countries have just equipped for the Olympic baseball competition: has Japan, Israel, South Korea, and Mexico.

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