Although this link is in Spanish, you should be able to make out fairly easily who is on Venezuela's WBC roster.
The preliminary 60-man roster has some great pitchers: Johan Santana, Carlos Zambrano, Francisco Rodriguez, Felix Hernandez, and Freddy Garcia to name a few. The catchers aren't bad with Ramon Hernandez and Victor Martinez. The outfield has Bob "El Comedulce" Abreu, Magglio Ordonez, and Miguel Cabrera.
Overall, I think Venezuela will be helped out the most by having Luis Salazar as its hitting coach.
Ahahaha, Miggy has to play center field!! Unless they want an actual hitter in the infield, if for some reason All-Star shortstop Cezar Isturiz does not produce.
Chavez could, so could Richard Hidalgo. But if manager...is it gonna be Ozzie? wants to win, he'll get all three of those dudes you named in the batting order.
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