Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: what the WBC needs is more baseball playing nations. Let's get India and Denmark and Germany in there, a few African nations would be cool. I think a big part of the idea of the WBC is to drive interest in nations on the outside looking in. So definitely. I'm sticking with November. For most players, their season ends at the finish of September and if they're invited to join their national teams, they can spend October recovering from the season but still keeping it loose. As teams are eliminated from the playoffs, new players can join the training already in progress. I'm also behind the idea of a single host nation. For nations in or near the tropics, hopefully November would mean temperate conditions. For northern baseball-playing nations — like Japan, Canada, and The United States — that would likely mean mostly using domed facilities.