Taiwan's men's national team has assembled its roster to compete for a qualifying spot at the World Baseball Classic next year.
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00:00It's out of the Lunar New Year holiday and on to the baseball field.
00:06Taiwan's national baseball team will be vying for a spot in the biggest international baseball
00:11competition, the World Baseball Classic, at a qualifying tournament later this month.
00:17Team Taiwan announced its roster and the players began training together on Monday.
00:22Coming hot off of a win at the Premier 12 tournament, Taiwan is looking to recapture
00:27some of that baseball magic.
00:29While many of the players this time around who will be playing in the qualifying tournament
00:33are new, Chen Jiexin, who was pivotal in Taiwan's Premier 12 victory, will return.
00:58Taiwan will host a leg of the World Baseball Classic qualifiers right here at the Taipei Dome.
01:04Teams from Spain, Nicaragua and South Africa will converge on Taiwan to compete for two
01:10open spots at next year's World Baseball Classic.
01:14With less than a month left, these qualifiers are Team Taiwan's first step to once again
01:19claiming baseball glory.
01:21Patrick Chen and Leslie Liao in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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