Mexico released Roster and Schedule for Final Olympic Qualifier
olympicbaseball February 17th, 2008
Federación Mexicana de Béisbol and Liga Mexicana de Béisbol presented the final list of National Team of Final Olympic Qualifier, which is held from 7 to 14 March in the Taichung, Taiwan.
Due to Colorado Rockies refuse to let Vinny Castilla to be manage the Mexico team unless it qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, their manager will be Jose Tolentino. The team will assemble together on February 17 in Cancún, Quintana Roo, where they will hold a series with teams of southeastern Mexican League Baseball, then move to Tucson, Arizona to play exhibition games with Colorado Rockies, then fly to Taiwan for Final Olympic Qualifier.
Currently roster is 27, will be cut down to 24 before game started. Among the 27 players, none of them play Baseball World Cup last year, and seven of them is the roster in World Baseball Classic 2006.
Final Olympic Qualifier Roster:
CATCHERS
Gerónimo Gil, Miguel Ojeda
INFIELDERS
Jesús Cota, Roberto Saucedo, Carlos A. Gastélum, Carlos Valencia, José Luis Sandoval, Heber Gomez, Agustín Murillo
OUTFIELDERS
Luís Alfonso García, Karim García (train in Japan and will report to the team in Taiwan), Iván Terrazas, Cristian Presichi, Luís Mauricio Suárez
PITCHERS
Francisco Campos, Pablo Ortega, Oscar Rivera, Walter Silva, Andrés Meza, Oscar Bustillos, Rafael Díaz, José Silva, David Cortes, Roberto Ramírez, Edgar Huerta, Heriberto Ruelas, Víctor Álvarez
Manager
José Tolentino
Coaches
Adulfo Camacho, Marco Antonio Guzmán, Teodoro Higuera, Armando Reynoso
Trainer
Jorge Fajardo
Bat-boy
Alberto Iñiguez
| Schedule of Mexico National Team | |
| Date | Game / Note |
| February 17 | Concentration of the team at Radisson Hotel in Cancún and anti doping tests |
| From 18 to 22 | February Training in Cancún |
| February 23 | Game against Tigers in the Beto Ávila de Cancún Stadium |
| February 24 | Game against Lions of Yucatán in Kukulcán Stadium to tribute to Gustavo Ricalde Durán |
| February 25 | Game against Pirates of Campeche in the Nelson Barrera Stadium |
| February 26 | Game against Tigers in the Beto Ávila de Cancún Stadium |
| February 27 | Moving from Cancún to Hermosillo |
| February 28 | Moving from Hermosillo to Tucson, Ariz. |
| February 29 | Game against the Colorado Rockies |
| March 1 | Game against rival by defining or training |
| March 2 | Game against the Colorado Rockies |
| March 3 | Leaving for the tournament in Taiwan |
Below is the Final Olympic Qualifier schedule with Mexico:
| Tournament Schedule | |
| Date | Game |
| 7 MARCH | Mexico vs. Canada |
| 8 MARCH | Mexico vs. Chinese Taipei |
| 9 MARCH | Korea vs. Mexico |
| 10 MARCH | Australia vs. Mexico |
| 11 MARCH | Day Off |
| 12 MARCH | Mexico vs. South Africa |
| 13 MARCH | Germany vs. Mexico |
| MARCH 14 | Spain vs. Mexico |
