May 10, 2020 Written by Carter Cromwell Arik Sikula was done with baseball. Then he wasn’t. For that, he can thank a chance meeting and Baseball Jobs Overseas. At 27, with six minor-league seasons and nine stops on his resume, the former Toronto Blue Jays farmhand...
At the end of every season overseas, we like to recognize our members who were playing around the globe for their performance on the field. For this the following rankings, we take a look at the 2019-20 winter season where we had 104 members overseas, mostly in...
In his first stint overseas, former UC Davis team captain Ryan Hooper gives us a real look into living on the Gold Coast of Australia while playing winter ball. In the second half of this episode, we revisit with a familiar Globetrotters face in New Zealand, this time...
Clemson grad Patrick Cromwell takes us inside his experience playing baseball in Perth, Australia. https://youtu.be/hXXSaA9SND0 Travel the world using baseball or softball as your ticket Our baseball and softball members get paid to play or coach overseas year-round,...
With a BBJO record 101 signings to play in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa for the 2018-19 season, it is no surprise that a major impact was made on the baseball world in the southern hemisphere. Now that the dust has settled on the season, there seemed to be...
Former MLB pitcher Josh Collmenter became an official member of the Baseball Jobs Overseas website on February 19, 2018, after he elected for free agency four months earlier following a 2017 season which started well with the Atlanta Braves but eventually saw him...
This article was put together for the baseball player who is considering taking his career overseas to Australia but has little or no idea of what opportunities exist and where. Australia is one of the biggest markets where more and more established and aspiring...
In this all-Australian episode, Vicky McFarland performs a dangerous stunt, is attacked by a swarm of fish and is stranded in the Australian Outback. We also introduce AJ Cipolla while he takes us inside his Instagram Aussie baseball stories including a team bingo...
In this second to last episode of season 1, we take you to Canberra to visit with Louis Cohen (ACT Bandits/Canberra Cavalry) and Chad Scheilz (Tuggeranong Vikings) before heading to Adelaide with Alex Carter (Port Adelaide Magpies/Adelaide Bite). All three IBC members...
This episode features clips and bloopers of IBC members throughout Australia as well as in South Africa and China. This episode gives you a good feel of the overall experience of playing abroad and the various cultural experiences that come with it. Watch this video...
Former imports of the MacArthur Orioles (Sydney) Jimmy Jensen, Max MacNabb and Caleb Fenimore are back in Australia for another season of baseball but this time with separate clubs. In this episode Jimmy and Max return to Sydney to visit their former club and Caleb...
Max MacNabb and Louis Cohen are the two biggest IBC success stories of the 2016-2017 season as both pitchers worked their way from state league baseball in Australia to key starting pitching roles for the Adelaide Bite and Canberra Cavalry of the Australian Baseball...
Tyler Krobetzky and Chelsea Cohen met while playing abroad in Australia. In this episode, one year later, Chelsea and Tyler take advantage of their Australian mid-season Christmas break to visit New Zealand for their second time as a couple. Chris Kuno takes us...
Jimmy Jensen along with IBC member Jeremy Howard (and wife) go on a road trip down the Great Ocean Road with some unreal footage of The Twelve Apostles, a collection of limestone stacks off the shore of the Port Campbell National Park near Melbourne. IBC member Chris...
This past holiday season, while the majority of us locked ourselves inside to stay away from the cold as we dreamt of the baseball (or softball) season still months away, couple Tyler Krobetzky and Chelsea Cohen flew to New Zealand for Christmas before flying to...
Jimmy Jensen takes us on a skate through Melbourne while Max MacNabb gets called up to the Australian Baseball League and makes the ABL All-Star game roster. Sneak previews into an IBC member on a whole new continent…. Watch this video on YouTube...
Jimmy Jensen enjoys a Thanksgiving feast in his honour, Mike Gonzalez introduces us to the lifestyle of playing and living in Perth while Scotty Mulhearn and his Red Sox teammates partake in “Manshower 2016.” Watch this video on YouTube...
In this episode we visit four imports players who are playing for the same club in the beautiful city of Sydney, Australia Watch this video on YouTube...
In this second episode, we once again check in on Jimmy Jensen in Melbourne and introduce long term IBC veteran member Scotty Mulhearn in Brisbane along with IBC teammates, Bart Janssen and Eric Herman. Watch this video on YouTube...
In this first episode we visit three IBC members playing overseas, Jimmy Jensen and Max MacNabb in Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia and Jaz Shergill in Cape Town, South Africa. Watch this video on YouTube...
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