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By DZ, with additional reporting by Gabriel Fidler. Filed Sept. 23, 2024. The season ended with only three Africans in major league organisations, but two of those have made particular marks over...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors-final-2024-update/

By DZ. Filed Sept. 23, 2024. The final month of the minor league season can be summed up in one word for Europeans playing in affiliated baseball in the U.S.: PROMOTIONS! In...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-final-2024-update/

By DZ, with additional reporting by Gabriel Fidler. Filed Aug. 25, 2024. The surging Astros look to be playoff-bound, and South Africa’s Tayler Scott will play a crucial role in the push...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors-august-update/

By DZ. Filed Aug. 25, 2024. One Italian was traded for a big leaguer at the MLB trade deadline, another allowed only three earned runs over the past two months, and a...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-august-update/

By Jason Daniels. It is rare that our staff has the opportunity to visit the heart of the Caribbean to cover European baseball, despite the fact that dozens of teenagers from Europe...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/german-spaniard-hot-dominican-summer-european-baseball-dsl-3/

By Jason Daniels. It is rare that our staff has the opportunity to visit the heart of the Caribbean to cover European baseball, despite the fact that dozens of teenagers from Europe...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/german-spaniard-hot-dominican-summer-european-baseball-dsl-2/

By Jason Daniels. It is rare that our staff has the opportunity to visit the heart of the Caribbean to cover European baseball, despite the fact that dozens of teenagers from Europe...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/german-spaniard-hot-dominican-summer-european-baseball-dsl-1/

By DZ, with contributions from Gabriel Fidler. Filed 16 July 2024. Tayler Scott once more steals the headline among Africans at the various levels of MLB. Houston has benefited from the breakout....

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors-mid-july-update/

By DZ. Filed July 16, 2024.The Phillies moved Verona, Italy’s Samuel Aldegheri up to Double-A, where France’s Ernesto Martínez is raking during July. Meanwhile, the MLB Draft had more of an ...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-mid-july-update/

By DZ, with contributions from Gabriel Fidler. Filed June 26, 2024. There are three Africans currently participating in MLB-affiliated baseball, and all three are having tremendous success. The v...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors-june-2024/

By DZ. Filed June 26, 2024. The big news over the last month has been the continued dominance of Italy’s Samuel Aldegheri. The righthander has been striking out hitters consistently in a...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-june-2024/

By DZ. Filed May 17, 2024. Several Europeans in the upper minors are performing well, while Dominic Scheffler of Switzerland and Gijs van den Brink from the Netherlands made their pro debuts....

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-mid-may-2024/

By DZ. Filed 23 April 2024. Along with several African players that have contracts in Mexico and Japan, there are three players on the rosters of MLB organizations, headlined by the Astros’...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors-april-2024/

By DZ. Filed 23 April 2024. The 2024 season is upon us! Veteran Max Kepler continues to headline the list of Europeans in pro ball, while Sem Robberse is off to a...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-april-2024/

By Jason Daniels, contributing writer. Late in 2023, we covered everyone’s favorite new baseball relationship: the blossoming partnership between Japan and the Czech Republic. Going into 2024, ...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/derhak-bridging-baseball-divides-for-czech-baseball/

Team Japan defeated Team Europe in the first game of the Global Baseball Games series in Osaka on Wednesday, 5-0. The hosts jumped to an early lead after two first-inning runs and...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/japan-blanks-europe-in-game-1-of-global-baseball-games/

What can we expect this year in the French D1? How did we get here to begin? And what’s next for baseball in France? Long-time D1 player and now manager, Owen Ozanich,...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/ozanich-2024-french-division1-most-competitive-season-yet/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. One week prior to the European Baseball Championship, Myllypuro Baseball Field in Helsinki played host to the Nordic Baseball Cup, which crowned a de facto cha...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/sweden-wins-nordic-baseball-cup/

By Jason Daniels. It has been a bumper year for Czech baseball, and the milestones keep coming following Czechia’s ground-breaking run at the 2023 World Baseball Classic. At the conclusion of t...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/czech-baseball-builds-on-historic-partnership-with-japan/

The third annual European Winter League (EWL) has commenced in Tenerife, Spain, with 52 athletes from 13 European countries practicing and competing under the Spanish sun between Nov 18 and Nov 2...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/third-annual-winter-league-underway-on-tenerife/

The penultimate day of the WBSC Youth Baseball5 World Cup confirmed the final positions from 5-12 with just the final between Cuba and France and the bronze medal game between Türkiye and...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/france-enters-youth-baseball5cup-final-with-win/

France booked its spot in the final of the Youth Baseball5 World Cup in Ankara, Türkiye, after the first day’s play of the Super Round on Friday. Meanwhile, fellow European representative Tür...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/france-youth-baseball5-world-cup-final-turkiye-bronze/

After an intense last day of Opening Round play in Ankara, Türkiye, the final four teams to advance to the Youth Baseball5 World Cup Super Round were confirmed, while the remaining six...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/turkiye-join-france-in-youth-baseball5-world-cup-super-round/

Unbeaten France and Cuba booked Super Round spots at the Youth Baseball5 World Cup on Day Two. France beat Taiwan in the feature game of the day between the top two ranked...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/france-leading-youth-baseball5-world-cup-group-b-after-day-2/

World No. 2 France and No. 6 Cuba lead Group B and Group A respectively with two wins from two games after the first day’s play at the inaugural WBSC Youth Baseball5 World...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/france-turkey-undefeated-in-youth-baseball5-world-cup-day-1/

The Tampere Tigers went into the Superbaseball final series against Espoo Expos as early favorites; after all, the team had only lost one game in the entire regular season. After the 11-1...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/espoo-expos-win-finnish-baseball-championship/

Herts Baseball Club celebrated the opening of its Basing Hill Ballpark, in which Barnet councillors threw out ceremonial first pitches. The Basing Hill Ballpark project was completed on 20 June b...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/herts-opens-basing-hill-ballpark/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. The WBSC released its newest set of world rankings yesterday, and virtually all European baseball nations saw a change in position thanks to new points availab...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/gb-sweden-set-wbsc-ranking-records-czechs-tie-all-time-high/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. BRNO, Czechia – Spain claimed its second European title with a complete performance in the final of the European Baseball Championship, overwhelming undefeat...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/spain-are-2023-european-baseball-champions-great-britain-netherlands-round-out-top-three/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. BRNO, Czechia – The penultimate day of the European Baseball Championship determined the final positions for all but the semifinalists, who each had the day ...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/2023-european-baseball-championship-day-6-placement-games/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. BRNO, Czechia – Spain put together three rallies late in its game with the Netherlands to claim a shocking upset victory and join Great Britain in the...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/2023-european-baseball-championship-day-5/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. BRNO, Czechia – In the first quarterfinal of the European Baseball Championship, Spain used five home runs, including a pair apiece from Royals’ prospect O...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/2023-european-baseball-championship-day-4/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. TŘEBÍČ, Czechia – On Day 3 of the Baseball Euros, Great Britain defeated Italy for the first time ever at the senior national team level to win...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/2023-european-baseball-championship-day-3/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. TŘEBÍČ, Czechia – Sweden and Switzerland pulled off impressive upsets on Day 2 of the European Baseball Championship, while Germany tossed a thrilling shu...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/2023-european-baseball-championship-day-2/

By Gabriel Fidler, Managing Editor. TŘEBÍČ, Czechia – The first day of the 2023 European Baseball Championship resulted in a series of dominant victories by the tournament’s favourites, an...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/2023-european-baseball-championship-day-1/

Czechia’s Marek Chlup made the best of a short stint with the Lake Country DockHounds of the independent American Association (AA), slashing .325/.393/.627 while smashing nine homers in just 34...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/chlup-keeps-hitting-in-the-american-association/

By DZ. Filed Aug. 31, 2023. Tayler Scott continued his useful work at the MLB level in a trio of appearance for Oakland in August, and has a 3.38 ERA in eight...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors/

By DZ. Filed Aug. 31, 2023 There were several Europeans in the headlines in August, as Ernesto Martinez (France) and Samuel Aldegheri (Italy) both earned promotions, and Williams Wong continued a...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-august-2023/

Finland’s SuperBaseball league concluded its regular season on 20 Aug. with a makeup game between the Tampere Tigers and Espoo Expos, with the undefeated Tigers having already clinched the Finn...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/tampere-tigers-regular-season-champions-finland/

Press release from the British Baseball Hall of Fame. Pennant races are heating up in British Baseball and we at Project COBB are looking forward to updating our records with the 2023...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/nominations-british-baseball-hall-of-fame-2023/

By DZ. Filed Aug. 4, 2023. It was only a few years ago that there were five South Africans between Triple-A and the major leagues, with a handful of others fighting their...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/africans-in-the-majors-minors-july/

By DZ. Filed Aug. 3, 2023. Sem Robberse was in the international baseball news twice this month — first for playing in the MLB Futures Game, and then for being traded to...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/europeans-in-the-majors-minors-july-2023/

Czech outfielder Marek Chlup debuted with the Lake Country DockHounds of the American Association yesterday, going a combined 2-for-6 with a run scored and one RBI in both games of a doubleheader...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/chlup-debuts-with-the-american-associations-dockhounds/

Two weeks after being drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 12th round of the 2023 amateur draft, French hurler Mathias Lacombe has signed a contract with the American League team,...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/frances-lacombe-signs-with-white-sox/

The Netherlands’ Sem Robberse, who pitched in this year’s MLB Futures Game, has been traded as part of the Toronto Blue Jays’ deal to acquire St. Louis Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks, mult...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/robberse-traded-to-cardinals/

Croatia defeated Poland, 5-2 (box), on Saturday in Ashebourne, Ireland, to qualify for next year’s U18 European Championship. Sweden defeated Ukraine in Zurich two weeks ago to claim the other ...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/u18-european-championship-qualifier-croatia-defeats-poland/

Transylvania. Literally translated as “the land behind the forests”, there are few more evocative words in the English language. Images of dark, mysterious woods populated by things that go b...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/transylvanias-baseball-pioneers/

The Netherlands won the U15 European Championship on Saturday in Trnava, Slovakia, defeating Italy 14-4 (box) in five innings before a crowd of 350 spectators. Guus Toemen was the man of the...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/dutch-defeat-italians-to-claim-gold-at-u15-european-championship-czechs-take-bronze/

A day after losing to Lithuania in extra innings on the final day of round-robin play at the U18 European Championship Qualifier in Zurich, Sweden rebounded to defeat Lithuania when it mattered.....

https://www.mister-baseball.com/sweden-dominates-lithuania-to-qualify-for-2024-u18-european-championship/

Germany defeated the Netherlands, 3-2 (box), on Sunday in Valenciennes, France, to win its second consecutive U12 European Championship and third title in the age group. Starter Konstantin Bieth ...

https://www.mister-baseball.com/germany-defends-u12-european-crown-defeats-netherlands-3-2-italy-wins-bronze/