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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] The group stage of the 5th World Baseball Classic will be played on March 8th. The Taiwan team will be in Group A with the Netherlands, Cuba, Italy, and Panama. Yesterday each team announced the list of 30 players. , The Japanese media "Sports Hochi" analyzed the situation of this group, and the headline directly named the three major teams in this group, including Taiwan, and they are optimistic about qualifying from the group stage.

According to the report, Group A will form a situation in which three strong teams from Taiwan, Cuba, and the Netherlands will fight for promotion, and analyze the Cuban lineup, "Although there are only two major league players in the team, the Chinese and Japanese Dragons have foreign generals and support the victory formula this time. Joining the team, as long as the starting rotation can reduce the loss of points, the chances of winning are very high.”

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Another report pointed out that the Dutch team, which broke into the top four in 2013 and 2017, has major league star shortstop Bergerz and former Yakult giant Valentin to help out, and the lineup is very powerful.

As for the goal of the Taiwan team is to advance to the semi-finals for the second time in team history after 2013, the Japanese media also named Song Jiahao, Wu Nianting, Wang Bairong, Zhang Yucheng and other good players in the Taiwan team.

However, under the analysis report of the Japanese media, some Japanese netizens left a slap in the face, "This group should be the top three of the Netherlands, Cuba, and Italy. Taiwan will not be able to enter the semi-finals." Some people also bluntly said that Taiwan's state is very mysterious, "When it is strong, it is Typhoon eye level, when weak, even China can lose.”

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