Daniel Alvarez

Yeah, it's amazing, Jeremy, because it's a tournament that started because baseball was not in the Olympics.

And obviously they tried to find a tournament that was going to be globally popular and have the best players in the world of the

best nations possible playing in it.

And I think they found a way to do it.

It started in 2006.

It's crazy to think that it's been 20 years.

Yeah, it's amazing.

And, for example, we had... I remember the first game...

being the Dominican Republic against Venezuela at the Disney World complex in Orlando.

It was a minor league stadium by the time because the Braves were playing there for spring training.

And now to see that we're going to have Lone Depot Park with 37,000 plus people in it, it's something crazy to see how much it's grown over the years.

Now it's not only...

The Hispanic countries or Japan or Korea, now it's baseball in America or with the national team being something huge.

Yeah, I think this is the easy part, giving the favorites, because obviously the U.S., they have an outstanding team.

I really want to see what Polskins can accomplish at this level.

We know he's in the Pirates.

He's probably the best pitcher in baseball in how much he loves this country, and he almost served in the military.

He said that he hasn't done that yet, but this is a really close second, which speaks highly about how he feels about the tournament and wearing USA across his chest.

I really want to see what he can do, but also the Dominican Republic, man.

I was at Lone Depot Park this week watching their first official workout, and I was like, oh, my God.