The Twins' Dustin Morse was again serving as the press officer for the team titled "Netherlands'' in the World Baseball Classic. This is a euphemism for the Lesser Antilles islands in the Caribbean that are still associated with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The largest of those islands, Curacao, has created a baseball heritage, and there are also players (including Xander Bogaerts) found in Aruba.
The Netherlands played its preliminary round in Taiwan, with the five teams all finishing at 2-2. The complicated tiebreakers led to Cuba and Italy advancing to the final eight.
