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Hot Shots: 2023 WBC Brings Levels of Excitement Missing from Current Baseball

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Major League Baseball has had a stigma surrounding it for a while now — baseball is boring.

A quick google search of “baseball is boring” will bring up countless articles about how baseball games are long and players are encouraged not to celebrate.

But, there is one baseball tournament that looked to disprove the idea that baseball isn’t interesting — the World Baseball Classic.

The WBC is an international baseball tournament consisting of 20 countries usually held every three to four years, according to Fox Sports.