Press Release Major League Baseball Rosters Feature 11 Former First Round Picks; World Team Includes Players from 10 Different Countries and Territories Outside the United States Rosters for the 15th annual SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game were announced today by Major League Baseball. The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, which is now in its 15th year, features […]

Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Max Scherzer has been named the American League Player of the Week for the period ending June 23rd.

USA Baseball 18U National Team manager Rob Cooper and his staff of more than 25 evaluators at the Tournament of Stars had a difficult job this week.

Hollywood script writers could never have provided a more dramatic or less predictable scenario. In March veteran catcher Ariel Pestano (by consensus likely the best backstop the island has ever produced) saw his glorious 14 year tenure (1999-2012) as starting national team receiver come to a rather inglorious end when he was overlooked for a slot on the Cuban World Baseball Classic roster.

Former Dominican Major League All Star Manny Ramirez is leaving the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). His team, the EDA Rhinos, confirmed in a press release on Tuesday that they have removed him from the roster and that he will leave Taiwan on June 21.

DURHAM, N.C. — USA Baseball announced on Thursday the names of the 18 players selected to represent the United States for the first time at the 12U level. The final roster includes athletes from eight different states.

Cleveland Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis and starting pitcher Corey Kluber have been named the American League Co-Players of the Week for the period ending June 16th. This is the first weekly honor for both players as they become the third and fourth members of the Indians to be tabbed A.L. Player of the Week this season, joining teammates Ryan Raburn (period ending May 5th) and Justin Masterson (period ending May 19th). The announcement was made earlier today on MLB Network.

The 39th edition of the Japan/USA Collegiate Championship will be held from July 6 to 12, 2013 in four venues across Japan. It’s a five-game series between two of the powerhouses of international baseball.

There have indeed been some rather memorable individual performances down through the years to spice Cuban National Series post-season play. Outfielder Alexei Bell (2007) once smacked two homers in a single inning for Santiago during one playoff session and the same Bell also registered the oddity of three base knocks in the same frame during another post-season fray.

2014 Opening Series Will Feature the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Historic Sydney Cricket Ground on March 22nd & 23rd, 2014