Nolan Arenado has joined Team Puerto Rico for the World Baseball Classic. The 6x Platinum Glover will play in his third WBC, and first for Puerto Rico.
Nolan Arenado has joined Team Puerto Rico for the World Baseball Classic. The 6x Platinum Glover will play in his third WBC, and first for Puerto Rico.
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Do Puerto Rico baseball fans appreciate this?
You can switch teams? 🤔
Weird how you suddenly want to honor your grandmother once you’re too washed for the US team
Cool, another Diamondback in the WBC
I didn’t even know dude was Puerto Rican.
do they even check what your background is lol? i feel like a player can play for any team if he really wants to
Oh snap nice. Didn’t even know he was Puerto Rican dope
Pretty lame being able to switch teams after you’ve played for another nation already.
So his grandmother is Puerto Rican, but Wetherholt can’t play for South Korea even though his grandmother is Korean?
Since he didn’t fit on the United States team, he had to go to Puerto Rico.
These sorts of tournaments are foundational for an international scene and I love the legitimacy they are getting. That being said, I love how half the nationalities are just Americans citing their great grandparents. Like the entire Italian team is from like Staten Island. The British team has so many guys whose claims feel like they are from the Revolutionary War era lmao.
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It’s so funny to me that you can just do a different team. I mean I get it, he’s got a grandma from PR but it’s still funny to just choose a different national team
They should follow similar rules to international Soccer IMO. One you make an appearance for the senior national team in a competitive match you shouldn’t be allowed to switch.
Eligibility is determined by wherever your grandma got laid I guess
I think it’s pretty wack that you can play for more than one team in the WBC. Don’t give me the soccer or basketball comparisons, it isn’t the same. If you played in a World Cup game for the US you couldn’t then go join team Canada the next one.
Everyone is shocked but afraud literally did this like twice to try and win
I wonder if he’s having any secret meetings with other WBC clubs to play for them instead?
In 4 years he’ll be playing for Zimbabwe.
Is he the first to play for two different countries?
There needs to be some sort of cap-tying regulation for these international tournaments. It’s ridiculous that you can play for different countries in the WBC. Imagine if Messi said “fuck it” and switched to the Spanish superteam in the early 2010s?
Puerto Rico is just washed tio’s and I’ll still root for them 🗣️🗣️🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Someone wants him?
Sent down to the B squad 💔
TURBO WASHED
Lmao the “world baseball classic” is hilarious why does anyone care. Half the great players dont play, and half play for random ass teams
You do you, but we all know you were born in Newport Beach.
That’s the best photo they had?
Kind of tacky to change nations…..but I understand wanting to rep the culture your family culture