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Effectively Wild Episode 1978: Sam’s Back, on Substack

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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World Baseball Classic

Since it's been so long can you give us a little primer and refresher for everyone who didn't pay attention last time or just doesn't remember all the details. In the classic there's 20 teams it was expanded from 2017 to 2023 from 16 to 20 teams so now we have 20 national teams covering almost every continent at this point uh south africa was in the qualifiers but didn't make it so africa's not represented in this wbc but they have a chance to in the next one and have in the past. The eligibility rules are a little bit spotty for for some fans that that haven't looked into it but essentially if you are eligible for citizenship or a passport in

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