Just throwing it out there. I'm expecting to get >90% people saying No - which is why I've included two different "No" answers, the latter meant to indicate a strong depth of opposition to the idea - but I'm also interested to hear why your answer might be No. Is it primarily because stopping the season for 2-3 weeks would be very logistically difficult? (The Korean and Japanese seasons have paused for the Olympics, of course, so it's not impossible.) Or is it because you're worried about injuries and fatigue for your team's players, and indeed for other great players in the game? Or something else?
Personally, I'd absolutely love this to happen. It'd only be once every four years and could replace the WBC, and it truly would be a special international competition, well above and beyond what the WBC offers in the spring. Doing this would almost certainly a) guarantee baseball's inclusion on the Olympic program in every Games, and also b) guarantee softball's inclusion. (It's a real shame that softball - which does have the world's best teams and players here in Tokyo - suffers from MLB's apathy toward the Olympics.) We've seen that hockey can make this work in the Winter Olympics; why not baseball?
Personally, I'd absolutely love this to happen. It'd only be once every four years and could replace the WBC, and it truly would be a special international competition, well above and beyond what the WBC offers in the spring. Doing this would almost certainly a) guarantee baseball's inclusion on the Olympic program in every Games, and also b) guarantee softball's inclusion. (It's a real shame that softball - which does have the world's best teams and players here in Tokyo - suffers from MLB's apathy toward the Olympics.) We've seen that hockey can make this work in the Winter Olympics; why not baseball?