Baseball’s 30th U-18 World Championship will be contested over 50 games, with the world’s best youth baseball players and teams to compete over nine days of competition at Sarasota's Ed Smith Stadium and Bradenton's LECOM Park in Florida, USA.

WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup 2013 winner, U-15 World Cup 2016 All-World teamer Justin Campbell was selected by the Cleveland Guardians. Twenty of the 37 players picked in the first round are USA Baseball alumni.

The WBSC and SSK have been partners for more than 20 years.

Jae-ho Choi (pictured above) will lead Korea to the XXX WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup. Dong-jin Lee will be the manager at the VI U-12 Baseball World Cup.

The 2017 U-18 World Champions, who started playing baseball together at five, made their debuts for the St. Louis Cardinals on two consecutive days.

Lee, 19, was a part of Chinese Taipei's world championship winning team at the 2019 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup,

The 20-year-old Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander earned the NPB pitcher of the month award.

The 22-year-old left-handed outfielder in 2017 helped USA win the U-18 Baseball World Cup and was named to the WBSC U-18 All-World Team.

2012 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup players Nayor and Shohei Ohtani both blasted their first-ever MLB grand slams on Monday, 9 May.

The WBSC Premier12, reigning MVP and an Olympic gold medalist, Suzuki (pictured above) became the National League Rookie of the Month. The reigning U-18 World Cup All-World Team center fielder, Crow-Armstrong, is amongst Minor League Baseball players of the week.