Shawn Spradling
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Jack Leiter, Mark Leiter Jr., and then their cousin, Cam Leiter.
He just got drafted this year.
And so all three could technically play for Great Britain because their grandmother is from England.
And you could even have Jack's dad coaching as one of the pitching coaches.
It's funny you say that.
I've had conversations with managers of national teams in the WBC that have told me that they use me as a scout, as a recruiter.
There you go.
After the tournament last time, Benji went to me and was like, yeah, dude, you were basically a scout for me on Twitter.
I didn't know some of these players were eligible for Mexico.
But because of that deep... I mean, I have to do deep dives into citizenship law of these different countries.
One of the ones that I was really interested to see if was a legitimate player that could play for a different country was Skubal is a Czech surname.
And so he's not...
eligible to my understanding because it's just, it's just too distant.
It's just like too many generations removed.
But when I saw his last name and I saw it was Czech, I started doing all of this digging into his family history.
And I was like, what if, what if, uh, Tarek Skubal was leading Czech Republic out into the WVC?