The sluggers who will be swinging for the fences in Philly have been named. Here's how they match up.
Team USA, boasting one of the most talented rosters ever assembled, failed to live up to its billing Tuesday night and could only watch as Venezuela celebrated its first World Baseball Classic championship.
Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic for the first time, rebounding from Bryce Harper's tying home run in the eighth inning to beat the United States 3-2 on Eugenio Suárez's go-ahead double in the ninth.
Italy stunned Team USA with an 8-6 victory in World Baseball Classic pool play Tuesday night, one of the biggest upsets in the tournament's 20-year history that puts the Americans in jeopardy of not advancing to the knockout round.
Our top-10 rankings continue with a look at baseball's best first basemen, including the A's budding star.
Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper says "it's kind of wild to me still" that president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski suggested in October that the two-time NL MVP may no longer be an elite player.
