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NPB or ex-NPB guys in the World Baseball Classic
Looking at the World Baseball Classic 45-man preliminary rosters, I found over a dozen ex- or current NPB players outside of the Japanese team. There are also a couple guys who have played in ni-gun or are on Japanese independent teams.
  • Australia: Chris Oxspring, Micheal Nakamura, Adrian Burnside
  • Canada: Aaron Guiel
  • Italy: Dan Serafini
  • Panama: Fernando Seguignol, Julio Zuleta
  • Mexico: Rafael Diaz
  • South Korea: Seung-yeop Lee, Byung-kyu Lee, Chang-yong Lim, Hei-chun Lee (only Lim and SY Lee were on the 32-man roster they posted previously)
  • Taiwan: Yi-Jie Hsiao (2008 Hanshin draftee), Cheng-Da Wu (Kansai League), Tu-Hsuan Lee (AKA Ping-Yen Lee)
None of the more prominent Taiwan natives in Japan are around as Taiwan is really weak this time. No En-Yu Lin, No Chung-Shou Yang, etc.
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Re: NPB or ex-NPB guys in the World Baseball Classic
[ Author: Guest: Mischa Gelman | Posted: Jan 23, 2009 2:16 AM ]

A few I missed:

Australia's Tom Brice has played in the Shikoku Island League

China's Dawei Zhu is in the Seibu Lions' system. Yokohama signed Wei Chen of Taiwan to their developmental team for 2009.
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Re: NPB or ex-NPB guys in the World Baseball Classic
[ Author: PLNara | Posted: Jan 23, 2009 3:16 PM | HT Fan ]

Just by eyeballing the provisional rosters:

Former Chunichi Dragon Matt Stairs is on Canada's provisional roster.

Randall Simon is on the Netherlands roster. He briefly played for Orix or Kintetsu a few years ago - can't remember if it was pre or post-merger.

Puerto Rico has Hiram Bocachica on their roster, and former Hawk Pedro Feliciano.

Former BayStar Rafael Betancourt is on the Venezuela roster.
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