by David Burns | Apr 11, 2025 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Mar 26, 2025 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Mar 14, 2025 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Feb 24, 2025 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Feb 6, 2025 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Jan 22, 2025 | BBJO Podcast
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....
by David Burns | Nov 1, 2024 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Oct 27, 2024 | BBJO Podcast
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...
by David Burns | Nov 20, 2023 | BBJO Podcast
Patrick Cromwell and Andrew Cosgrove are a rare breed of BBJO member. Both of these talented former division one players from top programs decided to forgo the MLB dream and use their talents to play baseball in some of the most desirable places to live overseas. But...
by David Burns | Sep 14, 2023 | BBJO Podcast
Whether opening for Green Day or pitching at Dodgers Stadium, there is one thing for certain about Scott Radinsky…….. he always brings it. In this episode, the former MLB pitcher and coach —who doubled as a punk rock singer for his band Pulley during the...
by David Burns | Aug 30, 2023 | BBJO Podcast
Seattle-born, Ethan Skuija, has always been a dominant pitcher. He dominated as a kid growing up in Canada, in junior college in California, and in division one baseball playing for CSU Bakersfield. None of this changed since he decided to take his career overseas...
by David Burns | Aug 18, 2023 | BBJO Podcast, Blog
Lenny Pietersz is a native of Curaçao who has always dreamed of playing professional baseball. He recently achieved that goal, but he had to invest in himself by flying to Japan to play in the Japan Winter League in November of 2022. After two junior college baseball...
by David Burns | Jul 31, 2023 | BBJO Podcast
If you’re interested in playing baseball in Japan, the Japan Winter League is the perfect place to start. In this episode, Dave and Jimmy interview league president Issei Washizaki—via translator Hiro Sakanshi—and find out everything about the Japan Winter League that...
by David Burns | Apr 26, 2023 | BBJO Podcast
Former Appalachian State standout, Kaleb Bowman, found himself undrafted upon graduation and made the decision to travel the world and play baseball. This journey landed him in Canada that very same summer after graduating, playing in a five-team semi-professional...
by David Burns | Dec 26, 2022 | BBJO Podcast
After wrapping up his college career at Georgetown University with a successful senior campaign which saw him hit .344 and lead the Big East Conference in slugging percentage, Steve Anderson was hopeful of being drafted. When that didn’t come to fruition, he opted to...
by David Burns | Nov 4, 2022 | BBJO Podcast
As an indy pro pitcher in the Frontier League and American Association, Tim Brown spent his winters pitching in Australian state leagues — and some time in the ABL— for five straight years. Pitching year-round for five straight years. He even threw a no-hitter in the...
by David Burns | Sep 11, 2022 | BBJO Podcast
Brett Holtz is an Ivy League first baseman who had his college baseball career ripped away from him by COVID-19 and Alec Lemmon had hung up the cleats and got the travel bug while backpacking in Australia before deciding to combine his new passion with his old...
by David Burns | Mar 14, 2022 | BBJO Podcast
UCLA Bruin alumnus Eddie Murray (far right above) teaches in the offseason in order to play baseball in Europe during the summer. Eddie wrapped up his college career in 2009 but it wasn’t until 2014 that he discover that baseball in Europe was a thing. He got...
by David Burns | Feb 14, 2022 | BBJO Podcast
Photo Credit: jchristophestudio.fr In this episode, Baseball Jobs Overseas founder David Burns and co-host Jimmy Jensen interview Jacob Biller, a BBJO member who played his first season overseas in France in 2021 where he won a championship and even managed to get on...
by David Burns | Jan 3, 2022 | BBJO Podcast
In my previous two podcast interviews with Bryan Ruby, he was not openly gay. Since our last interview, Bryan has come out and is now the only known active, openly gay professional baseball player in the world. His coming out was not just within his friend and family...
