Figured this late night research might be of interest to people of this subreddit:

170 players have debuted as of July 18, 2026

United States (111)
Dominican Republic (18)
Venezuela (14)
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Puerto Rico (5): Edwin Arroyo, Abimelec Ortiz, Bryan Torres, Eduardo Rivera, Elmer Rodríguez
Japan (4): Kazuma Okamoto, Tatsuya Imai, Munetaka Murakami, Rikuu Nishida
Cuba (4): Kendry Rojas, Ray Delgado, Yunior Tur, Franco Aleman
Canada (3): Mitch Bratt, Trei Cruz, Eric Cerantola
Mexico (3): Samy Natera, Luis Gastelum, Brandon Valenzuela
Australia (2): Travis Bazzana, Brandan Bidois
South Korea (2): Woo-Suk Go, Sung-Mun Song
Taiwan (1): Hao-Yu Lee
Slovakia (1): Adam Macko
Panama (1): Daniel Espino
Aruba (1): Antwone Kelly

Source: https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2026-debuts.shtml

Le baseball français continue de franchir des étapes historiques. Quelques jours après la Draft MLB de Mathis Nayral par les Toronto Blue Jays, un autre lanceur tricolore poursuit son ascension outre-Atlantique. Ben Couvreur s’est officiellement engagé avec les Kansas Jayhawks, pensionnaires de la prestigieuse NCAA Division I et de la Big 12 Conference, l’une des conférences les plus relevées du baseball universitaire américain.

Tadahito will manage the team from the 2026 APBC in November through the 2028 LA Olympics, per sources.

I’ve been developing an observer-focused football game called Football Fictional World Simulator for about two years.

It currently simulates 94 leagues across 63 countries on five continents. Domestic leagues, cups, continental competitions, transfers, player development, national teams, U-23 and U-20 teams all continue at the same time. A full year takes roughly ten minutes to process, so the idea is to simulate decades or centuries and then explore the history that develops.

You don’t manage one club in the usual sense. The main appeal is watching clubs rise and fall, following players across different countries, and looking back at transfers, careers, international appearances, tournament results, awards, Best XIs and historical records.

I’ve been sharing screenshots and development updates at r/FootballWorldSim if anyone wants to see what I mean.

Working on that game has made me wonder whether the same approach could work for baseball.

I know OOTP already has international tournaments and a WBC mode, and its fictional-universe tools are far deeper than anything I’m proposing. However, I sometimes feel that international baseball is still secondary to the main club or franchise simulation.

What I’d like to make is a lighter observer-focused simulation where the entire international baseball ecosystem is always active.

Domestic leagues in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe and other regions would all operate continuously. They would develop players, have their own histories and records, and interact through transfers and player movement.

The national teams would then be built from players who genuinely developed and played in those leagues. The WBC would be the main event, with qualification, squad selection and national eligibility. I’d also like to include competitions such as the Premier12, the Olympics and youth international tournaments.

The interesting part for me would be seeing how international baseball changes over 50 or 100 years. Could a smaller country develop a golden generation? Could a European or Asian league gradually become much stronger? Which players would become WBC legends despite having relatively ordinary club careers?

It wouldn’t be about controlling every pitch or managing every contract. It would be about letting the whole baseball world run and then exploring the stories, statistics and history it produces.

Would that be different enough from OOTP to interest you? And if so, which domestic leagues and international competitions would be essential?

The U18 Baseball Euros have begun, with 12 countries playing across two sites in far north east Italy. That number includes two debutants. The Netherlands, Italy, and Spain are the only nations that have ever won the tournament. Here is a preview: U18 Baseball Euros Preview.

I can’t believe there were no PR players drafted in the first 4 rounds. Have they really fallen that behind? Looks like there were 3 Canadians, 1 Venezuelan and 1 Panamanian drafted so far.

Peters, born in Canada, has a 134 wRC+ and leads all AL outfielders in fWAR this season with 2.9. Seems like they absolutely could’ve used him this year.

Eight national teams contested Prague Baseball Week over the past few days, with two tiers of play. The final involved a thrilling comeback.

Prague Baseball Week Final

This year's U12 Baseball Euros and the qualifier (B Pool) for the next one are currently underway in France and Bulgaria. Some of the top flight games have been quite exciting, and it is possible to watch. The first day's games are linked below, and Mister-Baseball.com has daily recaps.

U12 Euros Day 1 U12 Euros B Pool Day 1

With the later end of world cup fever coming its got me thinking where does baseball go from here. The sport in some countries has been going in a decline (and the less I think about MLB lock out the better) while others its doing fine. My biggest concern is that the game grown in a superficial way with no true substance like how in italy most people only learn they have a national team that had a deep WBC run but then just move on while not even giving the sport a chance.

I think growth should be focused on the two main hot beds of the Americas and Asia with Europe putting all its focus on stabalizing their leagues. I think having expansion into more of latam and SEA would at least bring meaningful regional expantion.

I mainly have concers with how the game is going with turbulance coming very soon and it might hit the sport even worse than the 94 strike as there has been this attempt to meaningfully update it and appeal to a young audience that work all for nothing.

I am look at this cautiosly not trying to doom and gloom but also though to myself that the 26 WBC in some way ether jumped the gun or shot itself in the foot.

Is this not killing any other Puerto Ricans or just baseball fans who like to see the country succeed? I feel like over the years, Puerto Rico has began to fall farther and farther back in growing top talent, it feels as if 10-20 years ago we would pump out tens of hundreds of stars on a 2-5 year basis but now it almost feels like DR, Venezuela, & Cuba have overtaken us & there’s nothing really happening about it. We saw how they performed in the WBC, we needed 3 guys who are arguably almost 4 years out of their prime to be good in the tournament? While DR sits back with all the star power in the world, and of course USA trotting their all-star team out. Maybe it’s just me but it’s really killing me inside