There has been a lot of discussion about potential changes to the World Baseball Classic that could improve the tournament for the future, and Team USA manager Mark DeRosa had a funny response to the question, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports.

“Hot water in Arizona to take a shower, number one,” Mark DeRosa said, via Nightengale.

One of the most popular suggestions is to move the tournament to the middle of the MLB season or after the World Series, and DeRosa did not like either of those ideas.

“I don't see any way of doing it in the middle of the season,” DeRosa said, via Marly Rivera of ESPN. “To ask guys that are not playing in the event to sit there for two to three weeks. I know for me, as a guy who didn't go to All-Star games, those four or five days off were welcomed, but that first time back in the box, I was like ‘whoa, alright we gotta recalibrate the fastball here.' And that was like, four days. You give guys three weeks, you have to ramp them back up again.”

DeRosa participated in the 2009 World Baseball Classic with Team USA, and he said the players on this year's team are more prepared than the 2009 team. He also said that the players on teams who make deep postseason runs are probably less likely to participate.

“If you wait till after the World Series, the guys that go deep into the postseason, you're going to have a hard time getting them to want to do it and they're usually the best players in the game,” DeRosa said, via Rivera.

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