24 July 2020
Minnesota has named two Australians on its 30-man roster for MLB Opening Day, including a possible debutant.
The Twins included Victorian left-hander Lewis Thorpe as one of 15 pitchers along with two-time ABL Helms Award winning outfielder Aaron Whitefield for their three-game series away to the Chicago White Sox from Saturday morning Australian time.
23 July 2020
Major League Baseball is back.
Yep, almost four months after the regular season was due to start a 60-game sprint will get underway tomorrow morning with two games.
23 July 2020
ABL Community Corporate News Team Australia
Baseball.com.au has experienced a 30 per cent increase in traffic since relaunching as an all-encompassing hub of baseball news, information and content a year ago.
The relaunched site celebrates its first ‘birthday’ today after relaunching on July 23 last year as part of Baseball Australia’s digital investment to help grow and promote the sport and its brands, including the Australian Baseball League and Boral Team Australia.
20 July 2020
Melbourne will have a new manager at the helm when it begins its Australian Baseball League title defence later in the year.
The Aces this afternoon announced Allan de San Miguel would become the franchise’s fifth manager, replacing Jon Deeble who will stay with the team as director of baseball operations.
20 July 2020
Palmerston ended Tracy Village’s perfect start to the Darwin Baseball League season on Sunday and levelled its own record at 4-4.
The Reds rode a five-run second inning to a 6-1 win at Tracy Village Baseball Fields, snapping the DBL-leading Rebels streak of seven-straight wins to start the season.
20 July 2020
Adelaide has added a second Boral Team Australia pitcher with Luke Wilkins set to join the Giants for the upcoming Australian Baseball League season after nine years with Sydney.
The signing of Wilkins comes just days after Adelaide unveiled his Blue Sox teammate and national team reliever Todd van Steensel as its first prized recruit of the ABL offseason.
16 July 2020
The Australian Baseball League was still in its infancy on February 4, 2011, when it saw its historic first no-hitter – in the postseason of all places – as Sydney moved within a win of the Championship Series.
David Welch starred for the Blue Sox in an 8-0 win over Adelaide at Blacktown Olympic Park, striking out 10 and issuing just three walks without a hit in nine outstanding innings.
16 July 2020
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.
16 July 2020
USA Baseball chief executive Paul Seiler says he is looking forward to seeing the impact of his organisation’s Coaches Certification program on Australian baseball.
Baseball Australia last week rolled out the three-tiered USA Baseball model after a review of its previous accreditation last year found it was not providing contemporary knowledge, value for money and also lacked multimedia training resources to use on field.
15 July 2020
Two-time Helms Award winner Aaron Whitefield has become the fourth Australian named to a 60-man MLB player pool.
Whitefield was this week added to Minnesota’s player pool and will join the Twins – and fellow Aussie Lewis Thorpe – at Summer Camp ahead of the MLB season starting next week.
14 July 2020
Boral Team Australia reliever Todd van Steensel will join Adelaide for the 2020/21 Australian Baseball League season.
The Giants announced earlier today van Steensel, 29, would link up with the 2019/20 runner-up after 120 ABL appearances with Sydney.
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