Category talk:Russian National Team Players

Dmitry Golubev brings us to 50. Our 31st country to get there, following the 16 teams from the first two World Baseball Classics, then Nicaragua, Spain, the Netherlands Antilles, Britain, Germany, France, Brazil, Belgium, Greece, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Colombia, Guatemala and the Philippines. - --Mischa (talk) 13:17, 13 April 2016 (EDT)

The 100th player here is Ruslan Nabiev. The 33rd country to 100, after the USA, Japan, South Korea, Cuba, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Venezuela, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, China, Nicaragua, Panama, Spain, Great Britain, South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Colombia, France, Belgium, Guatemala, the Netherlands Antilles, Sweden, Croatia, Argentina, Pakistan and the Philippines. Since they got to 50, they passed Greece but were passed by Sweden, Argentina and Pakistan. The peak of Russian baseball clearly was in 2001, when they finished second in the Euros; in the past 15 years, they haven't competed in any major global tournaments, failed to qualify for the Euros twice and only made it back in due to a lineup that was mostly Cuban. Now, they're back out due to their leader's wars. - Mischa (talk) 16:40, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

It would be useful to add the names in Cyrillic on the individual pages, given how inconsistent transcription has been (not surprising as English, French and German, to name just those three, have significantly different rules on how to go about this). Philippe (talk) 16:47, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

If I knew Cyrillic, I'd do it. Same thing with the Ukrainian NT players. - Mischa (talk) 17:21, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

With Valeri Platonov being filled in, we now have no remaining red links for Russian NT players. That's our 8th European country to be complete-to-date, joining Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine and the USSR. Greece is only one shy and I was holding off on filling that in as they've never had someone as the most-wanted player (so few actual Greek players, mostly Greek-Americans) so they're practically done. - Mischa (talk) 18:15, 5 September 2024 (UTC)