February ninth, 2023
Rosters
On or earlier than February 7, 2023, every Federation Group shall undergo WBCI a proposed Last Roster of not more than 30 gamers, every of whom will need to have been on that Federation Group’s Obtainable Participant Record, plus one supervisor and 7 uniformed coaches. An accredited Last Roster shall embrace no less than 14 pitchers and no less than two catchers.
Designated Pitcher Pool
Every Federation Group might determine a chosen pool of 10 pitchers who’re eligible to take part in a number of consecutive rounds. The listing is submitted to WBCI on the time the Provisional and Last rosters are due. For the Federation Group to make the most of the Designated Pitcher Pool, the Federation Group’s Last Roster shall embrace one or two pitchers from the pool. If no pitcher is listed from the pool, on their submitted roster to WBCI, the Federation Group is prohibited from utilizing the Designated Pitcher Pool for the rest of the Event. As soon as the pool pitcher is known as on a Event roster and subsequently eliminated previous to the subsequent spherical, the pitcher is not eligible to take part. After every spherical of the Event, any pitcher from an advancing Federation’s Designated Pitcher Pool could also be changed on the Federation’s Last Roster with one other pitcher from that Federation’s Designated Pitcher Pool, supplied that no member of the Designated Pitcher Pool could also be added again to his Federation’s Last Roster as soon as he has been changed by one other member of the Designated Pitcher Pool. Affiliated members of the Designated Pitcher Pool who aren’t included on their federation’s Roster for a given spherical of the Event ought to report back to or stay with their Main League Membership, as directed by the Membership. If the pitcher being changed is an affiliated pitcher, he should return to his Main League Membership’s Spring Coaching camp as soon as he’s not an energetic member of the Federation’s 30-man roster.
Participant Eligibility
Every participant on a Federation Group’s accredited Provisional Roster should be eligible to take part for that Federation Group. A participant will likely be so eligible provided that:
• The participant beforehand appeared on a Federation Group’s remaining roster in the beginning of both a World Baseball Basic Qualifier or Event spherical; or
• The participant is a citizen of the Federation Group’s nation or territory, as evidenced by a legitimate passport the participant holds as of three months previous to the beginning of the Event; or
• The participant is at the moment a everlasting authorized resident of the Federation Group’s nation or territory, as evidenced by documentation passable to WBCI and the World Baseball Softball Confederation (“WBSC”), or
• The participant was born within the Federation Group’s nation or territory, as evidenced by a beginning certificates or its equal; or
• The participant has no less than one father or mother who’s, or if deceased was, a citizen of the Federation Group’s nation or territory, as evidenced by a passport or different documentation passable to WBCI and the WBSC; or
• The participant has no less than one father or mother who was born within the Federation Group’s nation or territory, as evidenced by a beginning certificates or its equal; or
• The participant presents documentary proof passable to WBCI that he could be granted citizenship or a passport in the end beneath the legal guidelines of the Federation Group’s nation or territory (excluding any requirement of the Federation Group’s nation that the participant would want to resign his present citizenship), if he have been to use for such citizenship or passport.
Participant Restrictions Per MLB Membership
WBCI is not going to approve a participant’s participation within the Event if such participation would trigger an MLB Membership to have greater than 15 gamers from its group, or greater than 10 of its gamers who have been on any MLB Membership’s Main League Lively or Injured Record as of August 31, 2022, until the MLB Membership informs WBCI in writing that it has no objection to permitting further gamers to take part. However the foregoing, WBCI will retain the discretion to find out whether or not an in any other case eligible participant is ineligible to take part within the Event on the premise that such participation would pose an undue burden on his Membership (e.g., a Membership has its prime 5 beginning pitchers electing to take part). If limits of participant participation from an MLB Membership are reached, WBCI will select which gamers will take part, guided by the precept that Federation Groups’ rosters which have fewer out there MLB affiliated gamers will likely be given precedence.
Injured Personnel
A Federation Group might substitute a participant, supervisor or coach on its Last Roster if the participant, supervisor or coach is injured and WBCI confirms that the participant, supervisor or coach has a selected damage or ailment that renders the participant, supervisor or coach unable to proceed to take part in all or a part of the Event.
A participant so designated as injured shall be ineligible to take part in any additional Event video games. A Federation Group might substitute on its Last Roster a participant designated as injured with one other participant who had appeared on that Federation Group’s Obtainable Participant Record. A pitcher designated as injured could also be changed solely by a pitcher and a participant designated as injured who’s aside from a pitcher could also be changed solely by a participant aside from a pitcher. A catcher who’s designated as injured could also be changed solely by a catcher, if the injured catcher would in any other case trigger the Federation Group to have fewer than two catchers. A Federation Group should present a written request for substitute, in an inexpensive period of time, to an individual designated by WBCI and obtain the approval of WBCI earlier than such substitute seems in a Event recreation.
If a participant aside from a catcher is injured within the First Spherical of the Event, no substitute for such participant shall play till the start of the subsequent spherical of the Event. If a participant aside from a catcher is injured within the Quarterfinal Spherical of the Event, no substitute for such participant shall play till the Semi-Finals of the Event. If a participant is injured within the Semi-Finals of the Event, no substitute for such participant shall be permitted. However something on the contrary on this paragraph, if the injured participant is a catcher who would in any other case trigger the Federation Group to have fewer than two catchers, then the substitute catcher might play starting with the subsequent recreation in all circumstances.
Bereavement/Household Medical Emergency/Paternity Go away
A Federation Group might request {that a} participant be given Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency / Paternity Go away. No participant could also be given Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency / Paternity Go away until such participant is unable to render providers due to the intense or extreme sickness or dying of a member of such participant’s rapid household (partner, father or mother, grandparent, sibling, little one or grandchild), of such participant’s partner’s rapid household or such different member of the family as WBCI determines is consistent with the spirit of this Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency Go away coverage. No participant could also be given Paternity Go away until that participant is the daddy of a kid whose supply or adoption is imminent or has occurred inside the prior 48 hours.
The minimal interval of Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency Go away shall be three consecutive days and the utmost interval of Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency Go away shall be seven consecutive days, throughout which period the participant is just not permitted to be with the Federation Group. The minimal interval of Paternity Go away shall be someday and the utmost interval of placement shall be three consecutive days, throughout which period the participant is just not permitted to be with the Federation Group.
A participant given Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency / Paternity Go away could also be changed on the Last Roster by one other participant who had appeared on that Federation Group’s accredited Obtainable Participant Record. A pitcher given Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency / Paternity Go away could also be changed solely by a pitcher and a participant aside from a pitcher could also be changed solely by a participant aside from a pitcher. Such substitute shall be topic to the identical recreation and Last Roster restrictions above to which the participant he’s changing was topic. Upon expiration of a participant’s Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency / Paternity Go away, such participant shall be reinstated to the Last Roster, the participant who changed the participant given depart shall be faraway from the Last Roster and the returning participant shall likewise be topic to the identical recreation and Last Roster restrictions to which the participant who changed him would in any other case have been topic. If substitute of a participant on Bereavement / Household Medical Emergency / Paternity Go away would in any other case trigger a Federation Group’s Last Roster to have fewer than two catchers, then any substitute shall be a catcher.
Enjoying Guidelines
All Event video games shall be performed in line with the provisions of the 2022 Official Baseball Guidelines, as supplemented by these Guidelines.
• Three Batter Minimal: For the avoidance of doubt, the “Three Batter Minimal” rule contained in Official Baseball Rule 5.10 shall be enforced throughout World Baseball Basic video games.
• Mound Visits: Official Baseball Rule 5.10(m) in regard to limitations on the variety of mound visits per recreation, is just not adopted for Event video games.
• Designated Hitter: Official Baseball Rule 5.11 in regard to the usage of the designated hitter, is adopted for Event video games.
• Replay Laws: Replay Evaluation will likely be utilized as set forth in Main League Baseball Replay Laws, as could also be amended by WBCI. Any such amendments shall be communicated to the Golf equipment prematurely of any related video games.
• Pitch Timer, Base Sizes, Restriction on Shifts: The Official Baseball Guidelines adopted for 2023 concerning the Pitcher Timer, base sizes and restrictions on defensive positioning is just not adopted for Event Video games.
Pitcher Use Limitations
The Official Baseball Guidelines shall be supplemented for Event video games performed by a Federation Group, as follows:
A pitcher should:
• Not pitch till a minimal of 4 days have handed since he final pitched, if he threw 50 or extra pitches when he final pitched;
• Not pitch till a minimal of someday has handed since he final pitched, if he threw 30 or extra pitches when he final pitched;
• Not pitch till a minimal of someday has handed since any second consecutive day on which the pitcher pitched;
The combination variety of pitches thrown in two successive video games over two days is just not used to find out pitcher relaxation restrictions.
• Throw not more than
o 65 pitches per recreation within the First Spherical of the Event;
o 80 pitches per recreation within the Quarterfinal Spherical of the Event; and
o 95 pitches per recreation within the Championship Spherical of the Event;
o until the pitcher wants extra to finish a batter’s plate look; and
• Throw not more than
o 49 pitches per exhibition recreation for a Federation Group, or the utmost variety of pitches that WBCI units forth for such pitcher for such exhibition recreation, whichever is much less, if the pitcher is beneath reserve to an MLB Membership. WBCI might set forth such a most upon the written request of the pitcher’s MLB Membership.
No place participant (i.e., a participant aside from a pitcher) who’s an Affiliated Participant shall be permitted to pitch for a Federation Group in (1) an exhibition recreation, beneath any circumstances, or (2) a Event recreation, until the Recreation Operations Technical Committee has first given such World Baseball Basic Federation Group permission to take action in such Event recreation. Aside from the foregoing, there shall be no restrictions on the usage of place gamers (the restriction on place gamers showing in a recreation as a pitcher contained in Official Baseball Rule 4.03(c)(4) is just not adopted for Event video games).
For functions of the pitcher use limitation guidelines, each Semi-Last video games shall be deemed to have been performed on the day of the newest Semi-Last recreation.
For functions of pitch depend limitations, pitches thrown for the aim of effectuating an intentional stroll shall not depend in opposition to the general pitch limits. If a pitcher reaches the utmost restrict of pitches in a recreation throughout a batter’s plate look, the pitcher might proceed within the recreation till such plate look or the inning ends, whichever comes first.
Early Termination for Massive Leads
The umpire-in-chief shall name a regulation recreation within the First Spherical of the Event and award the victory to the Federation Group that’s forward each time:
• Such Federation Group is forward by 10 or extra runs after any full inning, starting with the completion of the seventh inning; or
• Such Federation Group is forward by 15 or extra runs after any full inning, starting with the completion of the fifth inning.
Additional Innings
For any inning starting with the tenth inning, the Federation Group at bat shall start the inning with a runner on second base. The batter who leads off an inning shall proceed to be the batter who would lead off the inning within the absence of this extra-innings rule. The runner on second base shall be the participant (or an alternative to such participant) within the batting order instantly previous the batter who leads off the inning.
By means of instance, if the #5 hitter within the batting order is because of lead off the tenth inning, the #4 participant within the batting order (or a pinch-runner for such participant) shall start the inning on second base. Any runner or batter faraway from the sport for a substitute shall be ineligible to return to the sport, as is the case in all circumstances beneath the Official Baseball Guidelines. For functions of calculating earned runs beneath the Official Baseball Rule 9.16(b), the runners who start an inning on second base pursuant to this rule every shall be deemed to be runners who’ve reached base due to a fielding error, however no error shall be charged to the opposing Federation Group or to any participant.
Successful Pitcher
Official Baseball Guidelines 9.17(a)(1) and 9.17(b) shall not apply to Event video games. As an alternative, Official Baseball Rule 9.17(e) shall apply to the dedication of the profitable pitcher of every Event recreation.
Video Replay Evaluation
Replay Evaluation will likely be utilized as set forth within the Main League Baseball Replay Laws, besides that, for the Championship Spherical video games, the supervisor shall be entitled to 2 (2) replay challenges and shall be entitled to 1 (1) replay problem for all different video games.
Group Rankings
For Spherical One, the collaborating Federation Groups are assigned and ranked in every Pool based mostly on the next standards:
• First, the Federation representing every Pool’s host nation will likely be assigned.
• Second, the workforce(s) that participated within the remaining 4 of the 2017 World Baseball Basic will subsequent be assigned as prime seeds for every Pool
• Lastly, the remaining groups will likely be assigned based mostly on December 31, 2021, WBSC rankings as a way to assured aggressive stability. Industrial, geographic and geopolitical issues can also be utilized to this course of.
As such, the Pool listing and rankings are as follows:
Pool A – Taipei
• Chinese language Taipei
• Netherlands
• Cuba
• Italy
• Panama
Pool B – Tokyo
• Japan
• Korea
• Australia
• China
• Czech Republic
Pool C – Phoenix
• United States of America
• Mexico
• Colombia
• Canada
• Nice Britain
Pool D – Miami
• Puerto Rico
• Venezuela
• Dominican Republic
• Israel
• Nicaragua
House/Customer Designations
The house and away workforce designations have been decided based mostly on the Pool rankings and every workforce will get the next house and away video games:
• Group #1: will obtain three house video games and one away recreation
• Group #2: will obtain two house video games and two away video games
• Group #3: will obtain two house video games and two away video games
• Group #4: will obtain two house video games and two away video games
• Group #5: will obtain one house recreation and three away video games
In every pool within the First Spherical, house workforce designations, for functions of the Official Baseball Guidelines, shall be as follows, with none regard to the sequence of video games performed:
• Group 2 customer, Group 1 house;
• Group 4 customer, Group 3 house;
• Group 5 customer, Group 2 house;
• Group 1 customer, Group 3 house;
• Group 2 customer, Group 4 house;
• Group 4 customer, Group 1 house;
• Group 3 customer, Group 2 house;
• Group 5 customer, Group 4 house;
• Group 3 customer, Group 5 house;
• Group 5 customer, Group 1 house;
In every Quarterfinal recreation, the house workforce designation will likely be given to every of the Spherical One pool winners. Every of the Spherical One pool runner-up groups will likely be designated because the visiting workforce.
In every Championship Spherical recreation, which incorporates the Semi-Finals and Last recreation, the Federation Groups with the upper profitable proportion of video games within the Event shall be the house workforce. If the Federation Groups competing within the Championship recreation have an identical profitable percentages within the Event, then WBCI shall conduct a coin flip to find out the house workforce.
Pool Play and Tie-Breaking Procedures
First Spherical: Within the First Spherical, the groups in every pool shall be ranked in line with the chances of video games received within the First Spherical. The 2 groups with the best such percentages in every pool shall advance to the Quarterfinal Spherical. If on the finish of pool play in Spherical One of many Event, groups inside a pool are tied with an an identical profitable proportion, the tie shall be damaged within the following order of precedence:
• The workforce that received the video games between the groups tied shall be given the upper place. If three or extra groups are tied and a kind of groups received its video games in opposition to all different groups it’s tied with, then it is going to be positioned within the larger spot. Equally, if a kind of tied groups misplaced its video games in opposition to all different groups it’s tied with, then it is going to be positioned within the lowest spot.
• The tied groups shall be ranked within the standings in line with the bottom quotient of fewest runs allowed divided by the variety of defensive outs recorded within the video games in that spherical between the groups tied.
• The tied groups shall be ranked within the standings in line with the bottom quotient of fewest earned runs allowed divided by the variety of defensive outs recorded within the video games in that spherical between the groups tied.
• The tied groups shall be ranked within the standings in line with the best batting common in video games in that spherical between the groups tied.
• Standings shall be decided by the drawing of tons, performed by WBCI.
Event Relegation
WBCI will implement the next workforce relegation plan after the 2023 World Baseball Basic Event. The 16 highest-ranked groups of the match will obtain an computerized invitation to the next World Baseball Basic Event. The final positioned workforce in every First Spherical Pool after the competitors of the 2023 match will likely be relegated to the Qualifier Spherical.
Disputes
All disputes between and amongst gamers and Federation Groups (aside from anti-doping disputes whose decision is supplied for in different agreements amongst Main League Baseball, the Main League Baseball Gamers Affiliation and the World Baseball Softball Confederation) shall be referred to WBCI for resolution. WBCI’s selections shall be accepted by all events as remaining.
