Category: German Baseball Leagues

The Mainz Athletics have signed right-handed pitcher A.J. Mackey for the 2015 season in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. The 24-year-old is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. He is the fourth new player on…

The Bonn Capitals will offer live streams of their home games in the upcoming season in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. A newspaper report revealed the plans, which haven’t been officially announced. “Caps-TV” will…

The Heidenheim Heidekoepfe have signed 29-year-old infielder Thomas Di Benedetto Jr. The son of entrepreneur Thomas Di Benedetto, a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox and former president of AS Rome,…

The Stuttgart Reds have signed 28-year-old Californian Eric Massingham for the 2015 season. He replaces Nick Renault as foreign starting pitcher for game two each week in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. Following a…

German coach Martin Helmig is becoming the new sport director of the Deggendorf Dragons, a German baseball and softball club which is currently playing in the fourth division in German Baseball. The…

35-year-old right-handed pitcher Nick Renault is not coming back to Europe for the 2015 season. Last week it was revealed that he has signed with the Oregon City Mud Turtles of the…

The German Baseball and Softball Federation (DBV) has announced on Monday that Jan Hendler is taking over as new managing director starting on April 1st. The 31-year-old worked as a controller at…

The Hanover Regents have added right-handed starting pitcher Jannis Wedemeyer. The 21-year-old, who played for the German national team at last year’s All-Star Game in Solingen, is coming from the Dohren Wild…

The Mannheim Tornados announced at the end of last week that they will add three new players to the roster in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. 23-year-old shortstop Ian Vazquez, 21-year-old catcher Tim Veraghtert…

The Cologne Cardinals announced the successor for Georg Apfelbaum. 26-year-old Phoenix, Arizona native Josh Moody will take over. The graduate of Western Nevada and Arizona State University was drafted as a player…

The Hamburg Stealers announced on Monday that they have signed 25-year-old American right-hander Jason Daniels. Following his graduation from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania he played one season in the PECOS League…

Besides signing Chris Ciatti and Gary Owens, the Bad Homburg Hornets also added 35-year-old right-handed pitcher / infielder Jason Lillebo to the roster for the 2015 season in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. The…

The Bad Homburg Hornets are adding Gary Owens and Christopher Ciatti to fill their open foreign player spots on the roster for the 2015 season. Owens is a 28-year-old pitcher and outfielder…

Thanks to the newest podcast of Bases Loaded it was revealed by Sven Huhnholz that the Hamburg Stealers will welcome back catcher Eric Krzysiak to the roster for the 2015 season. The…

The Haar Disciples announced on their website that they have completed their roster for the upcoming season. They were able to keep last year’s squad together with the exception of Joey Dyche….

In an article in a local newspaper it was revealed that outfielder Evan LeBlanc is leaving the Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg. The 28-year-old former Minor Leaguer was supposed to coach the softball teams…

The Mainz Athletics will be entering the 2015 season in the German Baseball-Bundesliga with an American shortstop. Thanks to the recommendation of Don Freeman, Joel Johnson will be coming to Germany. The…

Shortly after announcing the signing of pitcher Takuro Sugio, the Cologne Cardinals revealed the acquisition of two more Japanese players for the 2015 roster in the German Baseball-Bundesliga. 27-year-old catcher Takeru Sorita…

The Cologne Cardinals continue to keep connections to Japan alive. They have signed 28-year-old left-handed pitcher Takuro Sugio. He convinced Georg Apfelbaum during a tryout in Fukuoka, Japan last fall. In 2014…