Press Release Australian Baseball League
Some of the world’s best professional baseball players will showcase their skills on Australian soil this summer when the Major League Baseball backed Australian Baseball League (ABL) returns for its third season on 1st November.
The ABL’s six clubs – the Sydney Blue Sox, Melbourne Aces, Brisbane Bandits, Perth Heat, Adelaide Bite, and Canberra Cavalry will compete in a 46 game, 14 week regular season, with a designated ‘game of the week’ to be televised nationally for the first time.
The ABL will once again feature our nation’s best home-grown baseball talent, including members of the Australian National Baseball Team, competing alongside highly-touted international prospects sent to play in the ABL by teams from Major League Baseball, Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korean Baseball Organisation. 40% of players in the ABL are affiliated with these organisations.
The Australian Baseball League is owned and supported by Major League Baseball, the world’s largest pro sports league, and MLB will maintain an active presence in Australia this ABL season.
26 out of 30 MLB organisations are sending prospects to the ABL this season, including world famous teams like the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, and it is expected that as many as 11 current and former ‘Major Leaguers’ will take the field for an ABL club this year.
