{"id":2011488,"date":"2023-08-24T22:37:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-baseball-nearly-set-for-18-and-under-world-cup-in-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:38:56","slug":"usa-baseball-nearly-set-for-18-and-under-world-cup-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-baseball-nearly-set-for-18-and-under-world-cup-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Baseball is almost ready for the 18-and-Under World Cup in Taiwan."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusa-baseball-nearly-set-for-18-and-under-world-cup-in-taiwan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011488&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>USA Baseball&#8217;s 18-and-Under National Team\u2064 Prepares for World Cup<\/h2>\n<p>As USA Baseball&#8217;s\u200b 18-and-under national team gears up for the World Baseball\/Softball Confederation World Cup in Taiwan, there are two crucial tasks at hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Finalizing the Roster<\/h3>\n<p>Former major-leaguer Michael Cuddyer, the team&#8217;s manager,\u200b along with USA\u2064 Baseball&#8217;s staff, must narrow down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-baseball-nearly-set-for-18-and-under-world-cup-in-taiwan\/\" title=\"USA Baseball is almost ready for the 18-and-Under World Cup in Taiwan.\">44-player training-camp roster<\/a> to the final\u200d 20. This selection process\u2062 will determine the talented group that will represent the country on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lies-ums-and-ill-circle-back-what-we-can-expect-from-jen-psaki\/\" title=\"Lies, Ums, And \u2018I\u2019ll Circle Back\u2019: What We Can Expect From Jen Psaki\">international stage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Exhibition Game<\/h3>\n<p>Prior to their departure on August 27, the team will face off against the OC Lightning, an offseason club\u2063 team comprised \u200dof players from \u200bOrange Lutheran High School. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-rips-mlb-commish-for-leagues-china-cuba-ties\/\" title=\"Rubio Rips MLB Commish for League\u2019s China, Cuba Ties\">exhibition game<\/a>,\u2063 scheduled \u2063for \u200dAugust 26 at \u200cConcordia\u2064 College in Irvine, California, will\u2062 provide \u2064a valuable opportunity for Team USA to fine-tune their skills and\u200d showcase \u200ctheir \u200dtalent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s\u200d a pretty cool feather in\u2063 the cap that \u2062they called and asked to play \u2062us,&#8221; says Lightning Coach Eric Borba. &#8220;You have the best players in the country, so it&#8217;s\u2062 great for our \u2062kids to play \u2063against \u200cthat kind of competition\u2062 and see \u200dhow\u200b they\u2062 stack \u200cup. They also get \u2063to \u200csee a lot of the players they&#8217;ve\u200b read about and will see their names\u200d called\u200b in the major-league draft \u200cnext summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team\u2064 USA, \u200daiming to replicate the success of last year&#8217;s 18-and-under squad, has \u200bbeen training in San Juan \u200bCapistrano. With the World Cup set to begin on August\u2062 31 in Taipei\u200b and Taichung, the team&#8217;s stop \u200con the West Coast allows for easier travel to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The training-camp roster includes eight Southern California players, \u200cincluding Matthew Champion \u2063of JSerra, Nicholas Montgomery of Cypress, and Derek Curiel of Orange\u200b Lutheran. These talented athletes, \u2064along \u200dwith their teammates,\u2062 are\u2063 eager to represent their\u200c country and make their mark on the international stage.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption><strong>Baseball player Derek Curiel from\u200b Lutheran High School \u200bof Orange County in Orange, Calif. \u2063(Courtesy of USA\u2063 Baseball)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the team prepares for their journey, the exhibition game against the OC Lightning\u2063 serves \u2063as a crucial\u200c tune-up. The objective is to ensure that Team \u200dUSA is in top form \u2063before their departure \u2064from Los Angeles International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whatever Coach Cuddyer wants, we&#8217;ll try to deliver,&#8221; says Coach Borba. The team is focused and determined to\u2062 bring home another World Cup championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two crucial tasks await USA Baseball&#8217;s 18-and-under national team before they head to Taiwan for the World Baseball\/Softball Confederation World Cup. Firstly, former MLB player Michael Cuddyer, managing the team of talented high school players from a nationwide prospects development league, needs to finalize preparations before their departure on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":2011489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}