With qualifying for the fifth-ever World Baseball Classic now over, the tournament has placed the four qualifying teams in their respective pools as the schedule is now set.
The 2023 Tournament will feature a record 20 teams, divided into four pools of five teams. All 16 teams that competed in the 2017 tournament qualified automatically and four more countries emerged from the two qualifier tournaments of six teams each, or twelve total teams.
Within those pools, the five teams will play a round-robin tournament with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the knockout round of eight.