Thread 149702196

There's never been a better time to be a Mexican baseball fan
>For the first time, four Mexicans are going to the same edition of the All-Star Game

>>149702196 (OP)
chilangosharts don't care

>>149702196 (OP)
We are so back. Also who's the Tampa Bay guy?

>>149708576
Jonathan Aranda

>>149702196 (OP)
Wasnt the Golden age of Mexican baseball back in the 20s until the 40s

>>149715545
Maybe in terms of popularity compared to soccer, yes, but even so I don't think Mexican baseball has lived its golden age, things only continue to get better. In terms of talent we haven't had anything close to this. I don't think any decade in the past has matched the level of talent that gets to play in MiLB nowadays

>>149715693
Telewila's chilangos really did a number on us, my grandpa used to tell me Monterrey was a baseball city then in the late 60s until Telewila started to mass shill divegrass hard (mostly due to 1970 WC purposes)

>>149715693
>Colombia

Thats really the one that suprises me the most, thought only Venecos liked luck swing in south America, the negro island countries and central América/México Is expected

>>149715999
Real shit, Soccer only became organically popular from the start out in the west, specifically Guadalajara, the rest of the country was varying degrees of baseball and American Football (for central and North western México) until the big shilling began in the late 60s / early 70s

>>149718511
Colombians on the Caribbean coast play it

>>149718576
Im starting to see a pattern between melanin enhanced spanish speaking fellows and playing baseball, shit even here Is big in Veracruz which might aswell be a Caribbean country, i Guess the exceptions aré sinaloenses and they are basically decolored nigs

>>149702196 (OP)
And none of them are the Mexican negro. What happened to him?

Also, are they legit Mexicans, or chicanos who had one mexican grandparent and don't even speak spanish?

>>149720104
Randy is still doing pretty well. Just not an All-Star by the fucky distribution of selections across teams.

All legit Mexicans

>>149720104
They are all born in Mexico, I am curious how many of the 162 here are CHIs >>149715693

>>149723993
Seems to me the image Is to point specifically foreign born players

>>149702196 (OP)
Team Mexico in 2026 will definitely be better than the team they had in 2023

>>149724129
They could be Mexicans who moved here as young children

>>149729424
I'm sure there are a few, but it doesn't seem common. Just look at the players going to the All-Star Game. They were all signed as international free agents when they were nearly adults

>>149720104
>>149723947
And now he's on the list to replace someone that had to drop. Now make that 5 Mexicans.
>But he's a Cuban ni-
He's probably more proud to be Mexican than their entire national soccer team combined.

>>149730728
hell yeah, I'm glad he bounced back from a disappointing last season, but bats always struggle in their first season at Seattle, just like Polanco

>>149715693
>named to the 2025 all star game
47 USA
11 Dominican Republic
5 Mexico
4 Venezuela
3 Puerto Rico
3 Japan
2 Cuba
1 Bahamas
1 Canada

is Mexico elite?
A bunch of the USA guys could probably play for another country in the WBC if they wanted to

>>149733397
what I will say is that we are better than what most people give us credit for. something that we desperately need is a superstar. I'm not even asking someone to the level of Judge/Ohtani. someone of the level of Tatís Jr. or Kyle Tucker would do it. people love Randy/Muñoz/Paredes, but they're not exactly at the level where you can call them superstars. I will consider us elite once we have a player who can at least get MVP votes from year to year (even if he doesn't win since it's hard as fuck)

>>149734150
any one of these guys would be a much bigger star if they played for the Dodgers
Aranda would have star potential except he's on the fucking Rays, so he doesn't
It is interesting that most of Mexico's best players are position players now, traditionally they've always produced more pitching

>>149733397
>11 Dominican Republic
>5 Mexico
Mexichango maricones what is your excuse?

>>149736464
Baseball Is the biggest sport in the DR , in México its big in like 3-5 states

Doyerpacos kek

>>149702196 (OP)
The baseball fans i know dont really care all that much about the MLB, they watch the worldseries and shit but what they really care about Is the liga del pacifico (Guadalajara here, all those fans are chinolas and sonorenses living here)

>>149736464
Not even Japan can match the DR's level of talent output, for several reasons

bros
WBC soon
looks like USA might have good starting pitchers this time

>>149715999
Why not have both bro, i'm a fan both. Football can be our winter/spring sport and Baseball is our summer/fall sport. Have something going on year round

>>149745154
soccer never seems to pause. The Mexican league literally plays two seasons per year also

>>149745154
because liga mx is unwatchable garbage especially when you compare it to actual serious leagues

>>149746521
I don't watch liga mx either, it's all about MLB and yurop football. Is LMB even good?

>>149731219
I want him to be a dodger and replace conforto

>>149747875
The best teams play in LMP, but even that doesn't come close to MLB obviously

>>149702196 (OP)
I am a Mexican baseball fan when I play softball on my team there are Mexican people I live in Oklahoma