2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup Explained

Size:	300px
Country:	Canada
Dates:	September 1–10
Num Teams:	12
Prev Year:	2015
Medal Type:	world minor
Num Championships:	9
Best Avg Hitter:	César Prieto
Best Avg:	.581
Most Hr Hitter:	Triston Casas
Most Hr:	3
Most Sb Runner:	Michael Siani
Most Sb:	7
Most K Pitcher:	Fumimaru Taura
Most K:	29
Games:	50
Mvp:	Triston Casas
Prev Edition:	2015
Next Edition:	2019

The 2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup or the XXVIII U-18 Baseball World Cup was an international baseball tournament held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation for players 18-year-old and younger. The 2017 edition was held in Thunder Bay, Ontario, from September 1–10, 2017.

Format

First round: The twelve participating nations were drawn into two groups of 6, in which single round robin will occur. The top 3 nations from each group advances to the Super Round, while the bottom 3 nations from each group advance to the consolation round.

Consolation round: The 6 nations in this round play one game against the teams they have not played yet. (example: The 4th placed team from Group A will play the bottom three teams from Group B)

Super round: The format in the Super Round is similar to that of the consolation round. Each team plays the top three teams from the opposing group. (example: The 1st placed team from Group B will play the top three teams from Group A) The standings for this round will include the 2 games played against the 2 other Second Round qualifiers from the team's First Round group, and the 3 games played in the second round, for a total of 5 games. The 3rd and 4th place finishers advance to the Bronze Medal Game, and the 1st and 2nd place finishers advance to the Gold Medal Game.

Finals: The Finals consist of the Bronze Medal Game, contested by the 3rd and 4th place finishers, and the Gold Medal Game, contested by the 1st and 2nd place finishers.

Teams

The following 12 teams qualified for the tournament. The number shown in parentheses is the country's position in the WBSC World Rankings going into the competition.

width=200	Pool A	width=200	Pool B
(3)	(1)
(4)	(2)
(8)	(5)
(10)	(6)
(12)	(9)
(15)	(29)

Chinese Taipei is the official WBSC designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)

First round

Group A

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	—	45	15
align=left		3	2	.600	2.0	42	28
align=left		3	2	.600	2.0	33	19
align=left		3	2	.600	2.0	28	24
align=left		1	4	.200	4.0	12	41
align=left		0	5	.000	5.0	20	52

Group B

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	—	34	2
align=left		4	1	0.800	1.0	32	8
align=left		3	2	0.600	2.0	26	18
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	28	20
align=left		1	4	.200	4.0	16	26
align=left		0	5	.000	5.0	6	68

Super round

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	-	31	4
align=left		4	1	.800	1.0	38	21
align=left		3	2	.600	2.0	28	27
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	19	20
align=left		1	4	.250	4.0	9	25
align=left		0	5	.000	5.0	12	39

Consolation round

width=150px	Teams	width=50px		width=50px		width=50px	Pct.	width=50px	GB	width=50px	width=50px
align=left		5	0	1.000	-	35	8
align=left		4	1	.750	1.0	37	11
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	20	20
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	31	27
align=left		2	3	.400	3.0	28	28
align=left		0	5	.000	5.0	7	49

Finals

Third place game

Championship

Medalists

Tournament

^[1]
Will Banfield
Triston Casas
Raynel Delgado
Mason Denaburg
Brandon Dieter
J. T. Ginn
Nolan Gorman
Ethan Hankins
Jarred Kelenic
Matthew Liberatore
Landon Marceaux
Anthony Seigler
Joseph Menefee
Kumar Rocker
Michael Siani
Alek Thomas
Brice Turang
Ryan Weathers
Cole Wilcox
Carter Young

^[2]
Bae Ji-hwan
Cho Dae-hyun
Choi Jun-woo
Choi Hyun-jun
Gwak Been
Ha Jun-young
Han Dong-hui
Jang Jun-hwan
Kang Baek-ho
Kim Young-jun
Kim Min
Kim Ki-hoon
Kim Jeong-woo
Lee Yu-seok
Park Dong-soo
Seo Jun-won
Sung Dong-hyun
Yang Chang-seop
Ye Jin-won
Ye In-hyok

^[3]
Kyota Fujiwara
Taisei Inoue
Shumpei Isomura
Kosuke Ito
Kento Kawabata
Kotaro Kiyomiya
Yūto Koga
Kaito Kozono
Yoshihiro Kujirai
Kazuya Maruyama
Shu Masuda
Ginji Miura
Shosei Nakamura
Kenji Nishimaki
Shuto Sakurai
Tatsuya Shimizu
Fumimaru Taura
Soma Tokuyama
Hikaru Yamashita
Hisanori Yasuda

Final standings

Lost in Final
width=25	Rk	width=170	Team	width=25	W	width=25	L
		9	0
		7	2
Failed to qualify for the Final
		6	3
Lost in 3rd Place Game
4		5	4
Failed to qualify for the finals
5		4	4
6		3	5
Failed to qualify for the super round
7		6	2
8		4	4
9		2	6
10		2	6
11		2	6
12		0	8

U-18 All-World Team

Position	Player
C	Cho Dae-hyun
1B	Leonardo Seminati
2B	César Prieto
3B	Bo Naylor
SS	Brice Turang
OF	Michael Siani
	Alek Thomas
	Ye Jin-won
DH	Kang Baek-ho
P	Ethan Hankins
P	Fumimaru Taura

Statistics leaders

Batting

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
Batting average		.581
Hits		18
Runs		12
Home runs		3
Runs batted in		13
Strikeouts		16
Stolen bases		7
On-base percentage		.606
Slugging percentage	Jeyner Sánchez	.750
OPS		1.251

* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game

Pitching

Statistic	Name	Total/Avg
Wins	6 players	2
Losses	Mohamed Alaoui Oscar Tucci	3
Saves	14 players	1
Innings pitched	Donny Breek	16.2
Hits allowed	Mohamed Alaoui	22
Runs allowed	Mohamed Alaoui	20
Earned runs allowed	Mohamed Alaoui	16
Earned run average	Matthew Liberatore Ginji Miura	0.00**
Walks	Cristian Mendoza	12
Strikeouts		29
WHIP		0.5

* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per game
** They are tied with others with a 0.00 ERA but they pitched the most innings (12.0)

External links

Notes and References

Web site: XXVIII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2017 . . 9 August 2021 . en.
Web site: XXVIII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2017 . . 9 August 2021 . en.
Web site: XXVIII U-18 Baseball World Cup 2017 . . 9 August 2021 . en.