Later on this evening, the Atlanta Braves are going to be playing their first night game of spring training over in Fort Myers against the Twins. However, those won’t be the only Braves players taking part in a baseball game in Florida today. In fact, there will be a game that actually counts (and figures to be a lot louder and noisier) taking place down in Miami as Braves representatives Ronald Acuña Jr. and José Yépez will be playing for Venezuela as they take on teammates Ozzie Albies and Chadwick
Tromp (and manager Andruw Jones) in Pool Play action in the World Baseball Classic.
While I wouldn’t say that Venezuela is one of the favorites as there’s a pretty big gap in quality between the top three teams (Japan, USA and the Dominican Republic) and the rest of the field, they’re certainly one of the best of the rest. The Netherlands figures to be a longshot contender in the WBC but hey, they have a pedigree in this tournament as they’ve made the semifinals twice before. The winner of this game could end up being the dark horse candidate to make a real deep run, so it’ll be fun to see what happens this afternoon — on top of the fact that we’re going to see Acuña and Albies become baseball foes for a day.
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