All you need to know about the team that Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Freddie Freeman is playing for in the WBC.
The superstar first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, has chosen to represent Canada in the World Baseball Classic rather than the United States of America.
Instead of playing for the United States of America in this year’s WBC, he made the decision to play for the country in which his late mother was born and raised, which is the country of Australia.
It is the identical choice that he made in 2017, which resulted in the United States winning the competition. Freeman isn’t concerned with who wins the competition since he remembers that Canada was a long shot and Team USA was the favorite to win back then as well.
Because Freeman wanted to honor his mother by playing against a squad that had many familiar faces, including fellow Dodger Mookie Betts and many other big league All-Star colleagues on Monday night, he was forced to play against that club.
One of the people that Freeman is familiar with and who will be in the opposing dugout on Monday night is the manager of Team USA, Mark DeRosa. Freeman was a star in Atlanta for more than a decade, and DeRosa lives there. Over the spring, the two shared a meal together, and the United States skipper made it clear that he has no intention of making things easy on Freeman when their respective teams compete.
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