My predict "Samurai Japan" in WBC 2013

Japanese players association announced they will participate in WBC 2013 which will be held in next spring around March.

There will be many prediction about the member, who will be called in November when the team will face Cuba's National team at Fukuoka and Sapporo, in near the future on media. But as a one of the baseball editor and one of the fan, I want to predict New "Samurai Japan" before them.

At first, we need to consider players who will across the pacific in this off-season. Hiroyuki Nakajima, Kyuji Fujikawa, and Takashi Toritani will need to adjust their new team at first, so they may refuse to selected as a member of it.

This is my 28 member list of Samurais.

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Pitcher:
[Starters]
Hiroki Kuroda(NYY), Hisasi Iwakuma(Seattle), Yu Darvish(Texas), Toshiya Sugiuchi(Yomiuri), Kenji Ohtonari(Fukuoka SoftBank)

[Swing-man]
Masahiro Tanaka(Rakuten), Tadashi Settsu(Fukuoka SoftBank)

[Relievers]
Yoshihisa Hirano(Orix), Takuya Asao(Chinichi), Tetsuya Yamaguchi(Yomiuri), Hideki Okajima(Fukuoka SoftBank)

Catcher:
Shinnosuke Abe(Yomiuri), Motohiro Shima(Rakuten), Ginjiro Sumitani(Saitama Seibu)

Infielder:
Takeya Nakamura(Saitama Seibu), Yuichi Honda(Fukuoka SoftBank), Nobuhiro Matsuda(Fukuoka SoftBank), Hayato Sakamoto(Yomiuri), Atushiro Inaba(Hokkaido Nipponham), Hirokazu Ibata(Chunichi), Kenji Akashi(Fukuoka SoftBank)

Outfielder:
Ichiro Suzuki(NYY), Norichika Aoki(Milwaukee), Yoshio Itoi(Hokkaido Nippnham), Sho Nakata(Hokkaido Nipponham), Hisayoshi Chono(Yomiuri), Ryo HijiriSawa(Rakuten), Seiichi Uchikawa(Fukuoka SoftBank)

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Well, How about your prediction?