National baseball team to join Olympic qualifiers REDUCED FORCE: Two MLB players would not join the roster due to injury concerns, sources said, leaving the team without professionals from the US or the CPBL By Jason Pan / Staff reporter Taiwan’s national baseball team is to compete in the final qualifying round for the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, sports officials said yesterday. The decision to send a team to Mexico was a dramatic turnaround after Taiwan’s CPBL, with backing from all five its clubs, on Tuesday announced that it would not allow its players to travel to Mexico due to concerns over COVID-19.