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Baseball Australia has entered into a strategic alliance with Perfect Game with the partnership set to provide greater international playing opportunities for Australian baseballers overseas and at home.

Perfect Game is the world’s largest baseball scouting service and tournament operator and the partnership will provide Australian players access to these tournaments and showcases as well as their leading data analytics and scouting services.

A virtual clinic will be held early in the new year for Australian coaches to get their Certification C education underway.

USA Baseball will hold the virtual clinic at 11am AEDT on January 16 to provide Australian coaches timezone-friendly access for a compulsory step in their Certification C.

The Baseball5 World Cup will be played in even years starting in 2022, the World Baseball Softball Confederation announced overnight.

WBSC had originally scheduled the mixed gender competition for this year but it was postponed due to COVID-19.

Baseball Australia has formed a new partnership with the American Baseball Coaches Association – the world’s largest amateur baseball coaching organisation.

Under the partnership, Australian coaches will have access to a discounted ABCA yearly membership if they express interest in joining before October 31.

Australia will host the first-ever Oceania Baseball5 Qualifier in 2021.

The event – which will feature mixed-gender open and youth divisions – will decide Oceania’s representatives at the WBSC Baseball5 World Cup and Youth Baseball5 World Cup slated for next June in Mexico.

Baseball5’s debut at the Youth Olympic Games has been put on hold after the International Olympic Committee and Dakar 2022 host nation Senegal agreed to postpone the event until 2026.

The decision comes as the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause widespread concern around much of the world and after it already forced a major reshuffle of the IOC’s calendar, including the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by a year.

The following is a statement outlining Baseball Australia’s position relating to the outbreak of COVID-19 across Australia, and key pieces of information that stakeholders across the country need to be informed of as of the 13^th of March 2020.

We want to reassure our baseball community that we are in regular consultation with the key departments of Government, both Federal and State, and are monitoring the public health situation and any possible impacts as a result of COVID-19 (also known as ‘coronavirus’).