Baseball season is coming. But this year 2013, we have special baseball event before regular season. It is World Baseball Classic. I am looking forward to watch the games because it is the only official international baseball game.
But I know that it is just pastime for many of American and MLB players because the world series is the final goal for them and it is the very important game, deciding "World Champion".
What is the "World Champion"?
Many of good players around the world come and play in MLB from USA, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Japan etc... MLB may be the best league in the world. Then, what I want to say is that many players comes to MLB, but NOT all.
The players in South America dream to play in MLB because they can earn much more money than players in their countries. and MLB is more popular than the local baseball league. How about Japan and Korea? I describe the situation of Japan. It is obvious that NPB, Japanese Baseball league, is much more popular than MLB. and the baseball kids dream to play in Japan. As they think so, many good players play in Japan. Some of them may be as well as the title holders in MLB.
From the fact that Hideki Matsui has had World Series MVP as a member of Yankees, Ichiro recorded the most hits in MLB, and Japan won the WBC champion twice, it can be said NPB is as well as MLB.
I hope the Asia champion and MLB champion have the "real" World Series instead of WBC in near future to decide the "WORLD CHAMPION".
I agree with you that there should be a game to decide the real World Champion because teams from Korea and Japan very very good, not only in baseball but as far as softball they give the USA team a run for their money. Some of the best in the MLB are from Japan and Korea which makes the game better for spectators. They also bring a different style to the game, like how Ichiro bats is really different from most lefties in the league.
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