With the World Baseball Classic taking place over the last few weeks and into the next few, it would be against our best judgment not to look into where all the junior college ties lie across all the teams.
We may have missed a few, so if we did, please let us know and we can update the list as the ones we missed come in.
What we came to find was that there were 44 Total Guys that had Junior College ties from Players to even a few managers.
There were representations from the NJCAA (both Divisions 1 and 2) and the CCCAA.
There was a Junior College Representative on 12 of the Teams that took place in the WBC.
Below is a list of the teams with Multiple players represented:
Yavapai | 4 |
Chipola | 3 |
Miami-Dade | 3 |
San Jac | 3 |
Central Arizona | 2 |
Galveston | 2 |
Polk State | 2 |
North Iowa Area | 2 |
San Mateo | 2 |
Western Oklahoma | 2 |
Below is the Full list of players that had Junior College Ties:
Team | Pos | Name | Juco | Division | Pool |
Italy | RHP | Joe Biagini | San Mateo | CCCAA | A |
Italy | LHP | Joey Marciano | John A. Logan | NJCAA D1 | A |
Italy | Manager | Mike Piazza | Miami-Dade | NJCAA D1 | A |
Italy | INF | Miles Mastrobuoni | San Mateo | CCCAA | A |
Netherlands | SS | Andrelton Simmons | Western Oklahoma State | NJCAA D2 | A |
Netherlands | P | Franklin Van Gurp | Chipola | NJCAA D1 | A |
Netherlands | OF | Josh Palacios | San Jac | NJCAA D1 | A |
Netherlands | RHP | Kevin Kelly | Western Oklahoma State | NJCAA D2 | A |
Panama | INF | Jose Cabellero | Chipola | NJCAA D1 | A |
Panama | RHP | Justin Lawrence | Daytona State College | NJCAA D1 | A |
Australia | INF | Liam Spence | Central Arizona | NJCAA D1 | B |
Australia | RHP | Luke Wilkins | Clarendon | NJCAA D1 | B |
Australia | RHP | Mitch Neunborn | North Iowa Area | NJCAA D2 | B |
Australia | INF | Robbie Glendinning | North Iowa Area | NJCAA D2 | B |
Canada | 3B | Abraham Toro | Seminole State (OK) | NJCAA D1 | C |
Canada | P | Adam Lowen | Chipola | NJCAA D1 | C |
Canada | INF | Damiano Palmegiani | Southern Nevada | NJCAA D1 | C |
Canada | RHP | Indigo Diaz | Iowa Western | NJCAA D1 | C |
Canada | 2B/1B | Jared Young | Connors State CC | NJCAA D1 | C |
Columbia | P | Pedro Garcia | Southeastern (IA) | NJCAA D2 | C |
Great Britain | P | Branden Noriega | Miami-Dade | NJCAA D1 | C |
Great Britain | P | Chavez Fernander | Polk State | NJCAA D1 | C |
Great Britain | P | Donovan Benoit | Santa Fe | NJCAA D1 | C |
Great Britain | C | Kennard Dawson | East Georgia | NJCAA D1 | C |
Great Britain | C | Ural Forbes | Galveston | NJCAA D1 | C |
Mexico | RHP | Gerardo Reveys | Galveston | NJCAA D1 | C |
Mexico | RHP | Jake Sanchez | Imperial Valley | CCCAA | C |
Mexico | LHP | JoJo Romero | Yavapai | NJCAA D1 | C |
Puerto Rico | P | Luis Quinones | San Jac | NJCAA D1 | C |
USA | Coach | Andy Pettitte | San Jac | NJCAA D1 | C |
USA | OF | Cedric Mullins | Louisburg | NJCAA D1 | C |
USA | RHP | Merrill Kelly | Yavapai | NJCAA D1 | C |
USA | SS | Tim Anderson | East Central (MS) | NJCAA D2 | C |
USA | C | Will Smith | Gulf Coast State | NJCAA D1 | C |
Israel | P | Andrew Gross | Yavapai | NJCAA D1 | D |
Israel | RHP | Bubby Rossman | Cerritos | CCCAA | D |
Israel | LHP | Colton Gordon | Hillsborough | NJCAA D1 | D |
Israel | RHP | Dean Kremer | San Jaoquin Delta | CCCAA | D |
Israel | Manager | Ian Kinsler | Central Arizona | NJCAA D1 | D |
Nicaragua | P | Carlos Rodriguez | Florida Southwestern State | NJCAA D1 | D |
Puerto Rico | P | Dominic Hamel | Yavapai | NJCAA D1 | D |
Puerto Rico | P | Hector Santiago | Northwest Florida | NJCAA D1 | D |
Puerto Rico | P | Jonathan Bermudez | Miami-Dade/Polk State | NJCAA D1 | D |
Puerto Rico | P | Nicholas Padilla | Grayson | NJCAA D1 | D |