What good players are on the US Olympic Baseball team with MLB going on?

Question

First of all, I didn't even know there was Olympic baseball until like 20 minutes ago, but I saw that South Korea and the US are playing each other. What good players are even on the US team with MLB going on here?

Answer 1

i saw that game also.  Since i am from cleveland, i personally think that matt laporta is the best player.  he was the best player in the exibition games before the olympics started.  He had 3 homeruns in 4 days

Answer 2

This will be the last Olympics for baseball unless they can get it reinstated for 2016.  It will not be played as an Olympic sport in London in 2012.  This year, only minor league players were eligible.

Here is the Team USA baseball roster at the Beijing Olympic Games:

Pitcher - Brett Anderson

Pitcher - Jake Arrieta

Pitcher - Trevor Cahill

Pitcher - Jeremy Cummings

Pitcher - Brian Duensing

Pitcher - Kevin Jepsen

Pitcher - Brandon Knight

Pitcher - Mike Koplove

Pitcher - Blaine Neal

Pitcher - Jeff Stevens

Pitcher - Stephen Strasburg

Pitcher - Casey Weathers

Catcher - Louis Marson

Catcher - Taylor Teagarden

Infielder - Brian Barden

Infielder - Matthew Brown

Infielder - Jason Donald

Infielder - Mike Hessman

Infielder - Jayson Nix

Infielder - Terry Tiffee

Outfielder - Dexter Fowler

Outfielder - John Gall

Outfielder - Matthew LaPorta

Outfielder - Nate Schierholtz

Answer 3

Brett Farve

Answer 4

There are no Major Leaguers

only minor leaguers

here you can see there roster

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing...

Answer 5

As somebody posted in another question:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/baseball/team...

That's the roster. LaPorta is the most well known name (especially since the C.C. trade), but Nix, Weathers, Fowler, Teagarden, Cahill...and others are really good prospects that will probably see their way to the Bigs sometime.

Also, this is the last year for Baseball in the Olympics. :(  Because apparently handball and BMX are more Olympic...?

Answer 6

Mostly AA and AAA minor league players. A few guys you might know are Matt LaPorta and Dexter Fowler.