WBCClassic(World Baseball Classic) starts in 2026,Chinese teamAfter losing to the Australian team 0-3 in the first match, a Taiwanese netizen who claimed to be assisting the Australian team in their intelligence search was posted after the game, sparking heated discussion. butAthletic DepartmentIt said that after checking with relevant units, “this person was not found” in the official system.
A netizen surnamed Chen posted on Facebook in mid-February that he successfully joined the “Search Team” for the World Baseball Classic after returning to Taiwan. He also revealed that when he was in Australia last year, he learned that Taiwan would play Australia in the first game. He tried to contact the logistics units of the two countries and finally received a reply from Australia and became a member of the Search Team.
The netizen also wrote in the post that he had been paying attention to player information since the establishment of the national training system in Taiwan, and said that “I will continue to study the Chinese team’s ball distribution system and pitcher strength at night,” with a boastful tone. After the Chinese team lost, he forwarded relevant reports and said “mission accomplished”, which caused dissatisfaction among many Taiwanese fans and questioned his “back-stabbing the Chinese team.”
After the post was posted on Threads, some netizens searched for this person and questioned whether he was engaged in massage therapy in Yuanlin, Changhua. Many netizens angrily criticized his behavior as tantamount to “selling intelligence,” and some questioned whether it involved the leakage of improper intelligence information.
In response to this, the Sports Ministry earlier responded through Threads that it had checked with the National Sports Training Center and the National Sports Science Center and found that “this person was not found” in the official personnel databases of both units, and there was no relevant record of employment or cooperation.
Some baseball fans and people in the sports industry have also pointed out the suspicion of this incident, believing that if it is a professional or national team intelligence search work, it usually requires long-term information and a professional team. It is unlikely that they can temporarily join just one month before the game and grasp key information. Therefore, they believe that the post is likely to be exaggerated or even “bluffed” to gain the attention of netizens.
Some netizens also reminded that teams from various countries will conduct intelligence searches through public game records, data analysis, etc., and not a single person can master complete tactical information. As the social media account of the person involved is suspected to be closed, the authenticity of the relevant claims still needs to be further clarified.
