The International Baseball Community (IBC) ranking is a bi-annual recognition of the members of the Baseball Jobs Overseas website who were playing around the globe during the most recent season. For this 2-way player ranking (hit and pitch), we take a look at the 2018 summer season where most BBJO members were in Europe while some were in semi-pro leagues in Canada.
Assigning the Italian Baseball League and Dutch Hoofdklasse a rank of 10, we ranked all other leagues and from 1-10 in order to measure the strength of performance of each batter. We used the following algorithm for the ranking:
(League rank – ERA) + AVG x league rank + OBP x league rank + SLG x league rank
Other qualifying criteria:
- Must have been a member of Baseball Jobs Overseas who signed overseas using the website as a tool, directly or indirectly resulting in their 2018 signing.
- Must have had a minimum of >50 abs and > innings pitched.
- Played in the first division of a particular country or second division of a top-ranking country when the level is comparable to first divisions of countries considered (ie D2 Italy, Netherlands).
Congratulations to all of our members for a great season overseas and for doing a great job at growing the game internationally.
Top 15 Two-Way Players Overseas, 2018 Summer Season
*Based on regular season stats except for those who played on clubs which made the playoffs. In those instances, wherever possible, we combined regular season stats with playoff stats. Playdown stats were not considered
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