the twelve highest-ranked national teams (as of 2014 end-of-the-year world rankings) qualified participate in inaugural 2015 wbsc premier 12, based on recent wbsc world rankings, updated on november 22, 2014. membership in top twelve in world rankings, updated once every year, unchanged 2013. in fact, there no movement @ between 7th , 15th positions in rankings.
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the majority of teams in tournament missed october 10 deadline submitting rosters. major league baseball (mlb), sponsors world baseball classic, declined allow players on mlb 40-man rosters participate in tournament. final rosters included mix of mlb prospects (such milwaukee brewers outfielder brett phillips , chicago white sox outfielder jacob may united states), former mlb veterans (such curaçaoan infielder andruw jones , dominican infielder pedro feliz) , non-mlb stars (including japanese pitchers shohei otani , south korean infielder park byung-ho).
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