Baseball_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_-_Team_squads
The following contains the team squads for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.
The roster for the Canada national baseball team was as follows.[1][2]
- Manager: Terry Puhl, Greg Hamilton.
- Coaches: Denis Boucher (Pitching coach), Rob Ducey.
Pete Orr was originally named to the team, but pulled out when he was called up to the major league roster of the Washington Nationals.[3] He was replaced by 22-year-old Emmanuel Garcia.[4] Scott Richmond was also removed from the team when he was called up by the Toronto Blue Jays. Pitcher James Avery was named as a replacement.[5]
The roster for the China national baseball team was as follows.[6]
- Manager: Jim Lefebvre.
- Coaches: Steven Ontiveros (Pitching coach).
The roster for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team was as follows.
- Manager: Hung I-Chung [zh] (La New Bears).
- Coaches: Hsieh Chang-Heng (Chinatrust Whales), Lu Ming-Tsu [zh] La New Bears), Kung Jung-Tang (National Training Team).
- On August 13, 2008, right before the Chinese Taipei vs. Netherlands match, Chang Tai-Shan was banned by the IBAF on showing up in the Olympic Games after he was tested positive for a banned substance.[7] The Chinese Taipei National baseball team could only finish the Olympics with the remaining 23 players.
The roster for the Cuba national baseball team was as follows.
- Manager: Antonio Pacheco.
Yunieski Maya and Yulieski González were originally named, but were replaced with Miguel Lahera and Elier Sánchez.
The roster for the Japan national baseball team was as follows.
- Manager: Senichi Hoshino.
- Coaches: Kōichi Tabuchi, Koji Yamamoto, Yutaka Oono.
The roster for the South Korea national baseball team was as follows.
- Manager: Kim Kyung-Moon (Doosan Bears).
- Coaches: Cho Kye-Hyun [ko] (Samsung Lions), Kim Gwang-Soo [ko] (Doosan Bears), Kim Ki-Tae (Yomiuri Giants).
Im Tae-Hoon had been originally named, but was replaced with Yoon Suk-Min.
The roster for the Netherlands national baseball team was a follows.|[8]
- Manager: Robert Eenhoorn
- Coaches: Brian Farley – Pitching coach, Wim Martinus – 1st base coach, Jack Hubbard – 3rd base coach, Paul van den Oever – Coach.
The roster for the United States national baseball team was as follows.
- General Manager: Bob Watson
- Manager: Davey Johnson[9][10]
- Team Canada Olympic baseball roster Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine accessed July 18, 2008
- Baseball Canada Olympic Team Media Guide 2008 Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine accessed July 18, 2008
- CBC Olympics – Orr backs out of Canadian Olympic Team accessed July 28, 2008
- Emmanuel Garcia headed to Beijing accessed July 28, 2008
- Avery tabbed to replace pitcher Richmond on Olympic team accessed August 1, 2008
- Taiwan win minus doping test dropout Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine AAP – August 13, 2008, 6:05 pm. Accessed August 13, 2008.
- Netherlands Olympic Roster Finalized[permanent dead link] accessed July 18, 2008
- mlb.mlb.com http://mlb.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080716&content_id=3142921&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
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