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Baseball Globetrotters: Players Come From Around the World to Play the Italians & Czechs in Milan
At the conclusion of the European season, Baseball Jobs Overseas (BBJO) members playing across Europe came together in Milan to face the Italian and Czech National Teams as both programs prepared for the upcoming European Championship. For many players, this...
European Baseball Championships: The Impact of Dual Citizen Players
January 12, 2026 By Carter Cromwell With the 2025 European Baseball Championship tournament in their rearview mirrors, the continent’s baseball-playing countries can now look ahead. Not simply to their next seasons, or even to the next European Championship in 2027,...
Imposter Syndrome to Impact Player: Evan Symons’ Overseas Breakthrough
Recently, we sat down with Canadian ballplayer Evan Symons to trace an unconventional and inspiring baseball journey, from little league in East Vancouver to becoming an overseas MVP. Evan shares how walking on at the University of Ottawa (Canada), helping transform...
Baseball United: A New Era of Pro Baseball in the Middle East
By Carter Cromwell DUBAI, U.A.E. – Since Baseball United’s birth three years ago, CEO and co-founder Kash Shaikh has often talked of the massive effort necessary to build something from nothing. And something now exists. Something more, actually. Formed with the...
No Sniffs From MLB Teams at 97 MPH Didn’t Stop Ethan Skuija from Making the Most Out of His Golden Arm
On this episode of the Baseball Jobs Overseas Podcast, we sit down with Canadian pitcher Ethan Skuija, whose international baseball journey has been anything but ordinary. We first crossed paths with Ethan in the Czech Republic, where he was lighting up the Extraliga...
Africa’s Untapped Baseball Frontier
By Carter Cromwell Baseball in Africa. Hearing that, many people would respond with a blank stare and something like, “Huh? Really?” But, yes. Really. There is baseball on the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent. And it’s growing, albeit...
The Boys Brought the Vibes to Finkstonball. Was it enough for the Trotters to 4-peat?
Step into the action with the Baseball Jobs Overseas Globetrotters as they chase their 4th straight Finkstonball Championship in 2025. This highlight reel puts you right in the middle of the tournament with mic’d up moments, player interviews with Troy Justice, and...
Duke Alum Comes out of Retirement in Search of the Ending to His Baseball Story. He Found It.
Sam Granoff wrapped up his college baseball career in 2018 as a relief pitcher for the Duke Blue Devils during their most successful season in school history. In 2022, after not picking up a baseball in nearly four years, he decided on a whim to create a profile on...
After five years away from the game, he quit his job to travel the world and play baseball
Five years after graduating from college, Pete Saldaña had a good job, making good money, just bought a brand new car, but he wasn't happy. Then one day, he saw an Instagram post of a former college teammate who was playing baseball in Hungary and that was the first...
Trevor Bauer Reflects on His European Baseball Experience
By Carter Cromwell April 7th, 2025 Since his last appearance in Major League Baseball in 2021, Trevor Bauer has become something of a globetrotter, and that may well continue. Bauer pitched successfully for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball...
How this outfielder from a small college baseball program built a career overseas
Trent Saharek graduated from a small baseball college program out of Minnesota and desperately wanted to play baseball overseas. After registering for a membership at Baseball Jobs Overseas, he still struggled to receive an offer because he was an outfielder, which...
12 Years and 12 Countries: Tim Brown Describes His Passion for Travel and Baseball
If you would like to make overseas baseball a long-term career and lifestyle, we recommend taking a page out of Tim Brown's playbook. Since 2012, Tim has been traveling the world playing baseball, foregoing a promising independent professional baseball career for...
How Daniel Catalan Got a Coaching Job in the Chinese Professional Baseball League
After graduating from Holy Names University (NCAA II) with average numbers, Daniel Catalan discovered opportunities to continue playing baseball overseas. However, securing an offer proved challenging. Determined to keep his career alive, he took matters into his own...
This World Series Winner Stopped Playing Baseball at 18 for 2 years
Jeremy Guthrie shares his story of performing at the highest level in multiple sports while maintaining academics, passing up on the draft multiple times, stopping playing baseball and then returning to go on to become a World Series Champion, and his post MLB...
Released pro goes overseas, ends up on a reality show, now plays stadiums
Andy Cosgrove lost his love for the game while playing professional baseball for the Twins and in the Frontier League due to the business side of the game. He then discovered the opportunities that exist to travel the world and play baseball and jumped all over it....
NPB, KBO, and CPBL Participate in the 2024 Japan Winter League
By Carter Cromwell January 3, 2024 Year Three was a year of progress for the Japan Winter League. More players from more countries, more games, more instruction. All of which resulted in a higher level of play and greater interest going forward. Launched in 2022,...
Former MLB Pitcher and MLB Draft Prospect Lead Lithuania in Europe
By Carter Cromwell December 31, 2024 One could say quite a lot about the Lithuanian national baseball team’s victory in the European Championship Qualifier in July that earned the club its first-ever berth in the Baseball European Championship tournament. Or one...
From a Mens League in L.A. to Japan
In this episode, we talk to Ben Meyer about how to work your way up the professional baseball ladder. After receiving limited playing time at a D3 college, Ben didn’t have many options. He played in a men’s league in Los Angeles where he developed as a pitcher and...
From College Club Baseball to Japan
In this episode, Matthew Malconian walks us through his decision to quit his corporate office job and pursue a baseball career overseas. After getting his foot in the door with a 2nd Division German team, the Füssen Royal Bavarians, Matthew invests in himself and...
BBJO’s Global Impact, A Numbers Game
The BBJO staff loves our jobs because we know that we’ve made a huge impact on the global development of this game, and have helped countless people experience the absolutely unforgettable all around the world. As we’re still looking for partners and sponsors to join...
Czech Baseball Continues with WBC Momentum at Prague Baseball Week
Cover photo credit: Lenka Brožová By David Burns July 21st, 2024 When I got the message from the organizers of Prague Baseball Week that our Globetrotters were not invited back to the tournament for 2024, I was not happy, to say the least. However, when hearing their...
Czech Star Martin Mužík Relives His 2023 World Baseball Classic Moments
We catch up with Martin Mužík at Prague Baseball Week 2024 a little more than a year after his team impressed at the World Baseball Classic with a historic win over China highlighted by a 9th-inning 3-run home run by Mužík. Photo Credit: PC Lenka Brožová
From Cricket to Crushing Baseballs Overseas: Chris Beyers’ Story
By Carter Cromwell Though Chris Beyers’ baseball career is trending upward now – he stars in the German 1st Bundesliga, performed for the South African national team in the World Baseball Classic, and is set to play this fall in the inaugural season of Baseball United...
Member Spotlight: Breland Almadova
This month's Member Spotlight is beaming down on an MiLB Rawlings Gold Glove winner, 3x professional league champion, and 2-year Party Animal with the Savannah Bananas, who has now arrived in the Czech Republic for his first season overseas. We present the Stylin'...
Member Interview: Agustín de Argentina
We got ahold of Agustín Tissera, an Argentina native and national team member, to talk about the Liga Argentina de Béisbol and his career to-date. Agustín plays for his hometown Córdoba and has traversed Europe as an international veteran. You’ve played in the LAB...
This ballpark in northern Germany has atmosphere
Home to the Bonn Capitals of the German Bundesliga North, Rheinaue Stadium has an American-like ballpark atmosphere that is a rare find in Europe. In 2001, the stadium was renovated and expanded for the European Championships at the cost of 1.05 million Deutsche Mark...
Making Your Dream Happen: The Daniel Catalan Story
By Carter Cromwell There was a point at which Daniel Catalan was considering life after baseball. Now it’s more like baseball is his life. A native of Los Angeles, Catalan played at a couple of junior colleges and at Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif. Upon...
Players’ Investment in Themselves Pays Off: The Japan Winter League 2023 Summary
When Issei Washizaki decided nearly three years ago to start the Japan Winter League (JWL), his hope was that it would become a vehicle “for players to find their direction.” Judging from the early results, he’s accomplished that goal. And, in the process, pointed...
Baseball Globetrotters (2023): Hidden gem in small town Czech
BBJO Globetrotters teammates, Ryan "RJ" Johnson, Jeff Costello, and Russ Strilchuk show us their set-up and the beautiful city of Trebic, Czech Republic. https://youtu.be/7TU32bRwe-E?si=ntu6HCR-pQL2sFr1 Not ready to hang them up? Seeking a new career path?Annually...
Member Spotlight: Mustachioed Malconian’s Journey to Japan
Last season, Matt Malconian started his overseas career in Germany with the Füssen Royal Bavarians, a slight change of scenery from his San Diego desk job. Matt had entered the corporate world after a club baseball career at San Diego State where he was the...