Nearly two dozen current and former American Association players are spending their off-seasons in the Australian Baseball League. The league features a mix of players from Australia and New Zealand, as well as the rest of the baseball world.
In his first season in the ABL, C Jeremy Martinez (pictured, St. Paul ’19,), one of six AA players on the Brisbane Bandits, leads the squad with a .314 average through 16 games, also chipping in with a pair of round-trippers and and six RBI.
Meanwhile, Sydney RHP Ty’Relle Harris (Grand Prairie ’14-’15) has been strong in the bullpen so far this season, earning four saves for the first-place Blue Sox.
The full list of American Association players in the ABL:
Adelaide Giants
- RHP Ryan Chaffee (Winnipeg ’17)
- 2B Mikey Reynolds (Fargo-Moorhead ’17, Kansas City ’19)
- LHP Evan Rutckyj (Winnipeg ’17)
Brisbane Bandits
- LHP Ryan Bollinger (St. Paul ’14, Winnipeg ’14)
- OF Tim Colwell (Sioux City ’14-’16, St. Paul ’17, Fargo-Moorhead ’18-’19)
- RHP Justin Erasmus (Fargo-Moorhead ’14)
- LHP Ken Frosch (St. Paul ’17-’19)
- C Jeremy Martinez (St. Paul ’19)
- RHP Ryan Searle (Grand Prairie ’14)
Canberra Cavalry
- OF Tucker Nathans (Winnipeg ’18)
Melbourne Aces
- RHP Scott Shuman (Wichita ’15)
- RHP Sam Street (Kansas City ’18)
- LHP Josh Tols (Kansas City ’15-’16)
- OF Colin Willis (Gary SouthShore ’16-’19)
Perth Heat
- LHP Daniel Schmidt (Grand Prairie ’10, Fort Worth ’11)
Sydney Blue Sox
- RHP Ty’Relle Harris (Grand Prairie ’14-’15)
- RHP Alex Maestri (Lincoln ’11)
- RHP Todd Van Steensel (St. Paul ’19)
- RHP Luke Wilkins (Chicago ’19, Sioux Falls ’19, Cleburne ’19)
- RHP Ryan Zimmerman (St. Paul ’18-’19)
