So i got motivated and did a lot of asian leagues and the nicaraguan league that i couldnt fit in the other table 😅, anyways this probably not all of then but i think the most important ones. Once again correct me if im wrong in anything

So this took me some time to make, because information about a lot of these league isnt really that available and i still dont know if everything is 100% correct but here it is the longest active championship drought by league hope you enjoy it and please correct me if i got something wrong.

The Giant World of Baseball #2 - Talking Fun International Prospects w/Prospect Alchemist

Hey y'all, another day another podcast. This time I'm joined by my friend Tyler aka Prospect Alchemist (@mlbalchemist on Twitter) for a shorter discussion on fun international prospects and players. The episode is also up on Spotify.

Hello all, I am going to make a video that has Freeman’s home run call in all the different languages to high light baseball’s international appeal. I have the Fox and Fox Deportes call but looking for other languages.

I know that there should be a Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and French broadcast, but open to any other ones. TYA!

UPDATE: Some clips from the game can be found on the following twitter account:
https://x.com/INTLBaseball24

The US Virgin Islands (A US territory with a population of 85,000 people) just beat Curacao in the Carribean Baseball Cup.

To be fair, it was Curacao's Z team, but still. Curacao is known to produce tons of high level, even MLB level baseball talent. USVI are ranked 66th (out of 80 countries) worldwide by the WBSC. That's above Bangladesh and below Belarus.

Their winning runs came of a strange series of:

-Hit by pitch
-Would be hit by pitch, except the batter flinched and the ball bounced off his bat and into play and turned into a bunt. Then the fielder injured himself cause running to the ball, and runners made it to make it to 2nd and 3rd (?!)
-Walk
-Walk
-Sac fly
-Wild pitch

I'll link to highlights if they end up being posted.

Yakult:Pick#2 Moiseyev Nikita(モイセエフ・ニキータ): His parents are 🇷🇺Russian.

Hiroshima:Pick#5 Harun Kikuchi(菊地ハルン): His father is 🇵🇰Pakistani

Developmental Player Draft

Softbank:Pick#2 Xylene Sobukawa(曽布川ザイレン): His mother is 🇵🇭Filipino

Seibu:Pick#3 Ramal Rathnayake(ラマル・ギービン・ラタナヤケ): His parents are 🇱🇰Sri Lankan

Seibu:Pick#7 Umebinyuo Okemmei(ウメビンユオ オケム明): His father is 🇳🇬Nigerian

Featuring 215 nations and as many real players as I can find. Many of these players aren't in this version of OOTP sadly so ratings are gonna be done by hand, I will make sure they are are close to accurate as possible. Currently making stadium dimensions/park factors for every team, it is very time consuming but I believe it will be worth it in the end. If you have any suggestions feel free to share! Stay tuned!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFNZv6fN8j0iDiD6qYGM_ug

I maintain a tracker of international baseball games, so I'm always looking for resources to learn more. It's taken me a while to figure out where I can find information - and I'm still left wondering if I'm missing some big resources.

Here's the list of people/sites I check:

-This subreddit

- Jeff Duda (The amount of detail he posts is awesome. And he has started making podcasts and interviewing players)

- Shawn Spradling (Professional and high quality reporting. He doesn't delve tons into rumors.)

- Baseball International on YouTube

- World Baseball Softball Confederation Website (This site also contains a lot of stuff you probably won't care about - i.e. "U14 Europe Baseball5 Rules and Regulations")

- The Frilled Shark on YouTube (recently been posting some great stuff and podcasts)

The WBC site and socials are honestly not that helpful for research - if none of the above have covered something... it's really unlikely the WBC site or socials have.

The success of the 2023 World Baseball Classic led me to an idea for how to keep growing international baseball. I would create a series of international friendly matches sponsored by the MLB with the participation of MLB players. The idea is similar to how soccer holds friendlies with professional players. These would happen every year and could take place during spring training, a slightly expanded All Star break, and/or right after the MLB playoffs.

A little late 😅😅 because we are already two games in but as a reminder to anyone interested the Dominican league has started, the games tonight