Colombia is ready for the World Baseball Classic: line-ups, schedules and rivals

He World Baseball Classic begins this Tuesday, March 7 a tournament which brings together the 20 best teams on the planet, one of which is Colombiawho hopes to make a good presentation in his third participation and with a roster that promises to go far in the competition.

It will not have an easy group, the rivals are complicated and have more experience in this kind of tournament, but the national team trusts the experience of some of its players, including those who are part of the major league baseballthe most important tournament in the world.

Although they don’t have José Quintana, the Colombian team have other fundamental men to appear in the tournament such as Gio Urshela, Harold Ramirez and Jorge Alfaroin addition to the Barranquillero opener Nabil Crismatt and Reynaldo Rodriguez.

In the last 10 days there have been news in the Colombian team that will play the World Baseball Classicin which several important actors left for different reasons and others are surprising in the appeal to the Manager Jolbert Cabrera.

Donovan Solano, José Quintana, Julio Terán and Luis Patiño They are the most sensitive victims of the national team, whom it has been difficult to replace, but Cabrera has bet on young people to face the difficult challenge that awaits them, because Dayan Frias, Jordan Diaz and Jesus Marriaga.

“The guys are preparing pretty well. There are 22 who are training with their teams here in the United States in ‘spring training’ and another eight who are in Colombia and Venezuela working to ensure that everyone is in good shape ”, the director told Caracol Television.

At the last minute, the Colombian team suffered the loss of Jose Quintanathe main figure of Colombian baseball, that a back injury He took it off the payroll, as he told fans in recent days: “I want to share with all Colombian baseball fans that unfortunately I will not be able to represent my country in this World Classic.”

“I dealt with a problem on the left side of my back, hoping to be 100% and answer the call of the country, but today I had to quit the game as the problem still persists… “, added the athlete, quoted by the chain Win sports.

Nabil Crismatt, pitcher currently playing for the San Diego Padres in MLBis one of the strong cards of the Director Jolbert Cabrera for Saturday’s first game against Mexico, this was demonstrated in a chat with the digital portal first time.

“He has the ability to open up play, pick up in the middle and pick up at the back. He has a lot of experience in starting matches in the winter leagues in Colombia and the Dominican Republic.stressed Cabrera, on the value of the player to start the World Classic on the right foot.

He added that Crismatt “He also started a game in the last Clásico and put in a great performance. We have full confidence in him and we know he’s going to give everything to try to help us get that victory in the first game which is so important. .”

Infielders: Jordan Díaz, Dayan Frías, Evan Mendoza, Fabián Pertuz, Adrián Sánchez, Dilson Herrera and Giovanni Urshela.

Receivers: Jorge Alfaro, Meibrys Viloria and Elias Diaz.

Gardeners: Jesús Marriaga, Óscar Mercado, Tito Polo, Harold Ramírez and Gustavo Campero.

Launchers: Nabil Crismatt, Reiver Sanmartín, Jhon Romero, William Cuevas, Elkin Alcalá, Danis Correa, Guillermo Zúñiga, Rubén Galindo, Pedro García, Río Gómez, Jasier Herrera, José Torres, Yapson Gómez and Adrián Almeida.

Colombia will be part of Group C of the World Baseball Classic, which will be headquartered at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, with a capacity of 48,519 spectators. These will be the matches with their calendar at the time of our country:

Colombia vs Mexico: March 11, 2:30 p.m.

Colombia vs. Britain: March 13, 2 p.m.

Canada vs. Colombia: March 14, 2 p.m.

United States vs. Colombia: March 15, 9:00 p.m.