The World Baseball Classic is a battle of the game’s top professional players. The Czech national team is 15th in the men’s world rankings and second in Europe, behind only the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is stocked with excellent major league players from Curaçao and Aruba; technically Dutch, but who mostly grew up in the fertile baseball culture of those warm, Caribbean islands. The rest of the baseball world, which will likely focus on their amateur status, may need to start preparing for Czech baseball