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World Baseball Classic

The shortlist for the World Baseball Classic rosters is up -- http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/wbc/rosters.jsp?content=alphabetical -- and only three Indians are represented, including Jose Hernandez. Anyone else surprised that Ronnie Belliard and C.C. Sabathia are the only players being considered for the classic on the Indians?

I'm surprised that Jhonny didn't make the list for the Dominican Republic. I'm even more surprised that Pronk isn't being considered for the U.S. team. I know it's a (very) deep team and that he'd have to DH, but he did just finish fifth in the MVP voting. But probably most surprising is that V-Mart isn't on the Venezuelan team's short list. Henry Blanco instead?

I suppose this isn't exactly bad for the Indians organization -- less chance of injury, etc. -- but it would be fun to root for some of our guys in this thing, especially since C.C. probably won't make the final cut for one of the USA's 13 pitching spots. Any thoughts?

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