MLB: The Dream Team of the United States if it takes all its stars to the World Classic 2023

With the cancellation of the 2021 World Classic due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are left with the desire to see the best players in MLB and the world play with their national teams, being the WBSC the closest thing baseball has to a World Cup in which the best play against the best. Although almost all the national teams wear the best they have each edition, This has not been the case for the United States.

The United States is the clear world power in baseball, but for one reason or another they have not been able to bring the best they have available in terms of talent to the tournament, settling for a “B Selection” to face the Classic, with even an alternative draw being talented enough to win the WBSC, as they showed in 2017.

In case the Astros line up and the American team can take the best of the best available, it would be a true Dream Team, with up to two or three players of the highest level at each position.

line-up:

• Catcher: JT Realmuto/Mike Zunino
• 1 B: Freddie Freeman/Max Muncy/Pete Alonso
• 2B: Marcus Semien/Whit Merrifield/Trea Turner
• 3B: Nolan Arenado/Kris Bryant/Anthony Rendon
• H.H: Corey Seager/Trevor Story/Tim Anderson
• RF: Mookie Betts/Bryce Harper/Aaron Judge
• CF: Mike Trout/Cody Bellinger/Kevin Kiermaier
• LF: Kyle Schwarber/Joey Gallo/Christian Yelich
• DBD: Giancarlo Stanton/JD Martinez

Pitchers: Max Scherzer, Jacob DeGrom, Corbin Burnes, Robbie Ray, Walker Buehler, Clayton Kershaw, Zack Wheeler, Shane Bieber,

relievers: Josh Hader, Mark Melancon, Will Smith, Devin Williams, Craig Kimbrel, Ryan Pressly, Tyler Rogers

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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