Over 20 current and former American Association players will be taking part in the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s Premier12 tournament, held November 2-17 at sites in Japan, Korea, Mexico and Taiwan.
The tournament features the world’s 12 top-ranked baseball nations, with the top finishers from the Americas and Asia/Oceania each earning a berth in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
2019 American Association players at the tournament include Winnipeg INF Wes Darvill (photo left), Lincoln 1B Curt Smith (photo center) and Chicago RHP Luke Wilkins (photo right). The full list of the league’s players and coaches:
- Pitching Coach Jim Bennett (Fargo-Moorhead manager ’19-)
- RHP Ryan Searle (Grand Prairie ’14)
- LHP Josh Tols (Kansas City ’15-’16)
- RHP Todd van Steensel (St. Paul ’19)
- RHP Luke Wilkins (Fargo-Moorhead ’19, Sioux Falls ’19, Chicago ’19)
- INF Wes Darvill (Winnipeg ’16-’17, ’19)
- RHP Dylan Rheault (Winnipeg ’16, Sioux City ’16)
- LHP Evan Rutckyj (Winnipeg ’17)
- OF Rene Tosoni (Sioux City ’14-’15)
- RHP Carlos Pimentel (Lincoln ’17)
- C Charlie Valerio (Fargo-Moorhead ’15-’18, Joplin ’16)
- LHP Brennan Bernardino (Winnipeg ’18)
- OF Jon Jones (Gary SouthShore ’15)
- OF Noah Perio (Sioux City ’15-’16, St. Paul ’18, Kansas City ’18)
- RHP Adam Quintana (Gary SouthShore ’18)
- 1B Yurendell Decaster (Winnipeg ’12-’13)
- RHP Shairon Martis (Lincoln ’15-’19)
- 1B Curt Smith (Lincoln ’13, ’15-’19)
- RHP Bryan Escanio (Sioux City ’16)
- 1B/OF Edwin Gomez (Sioux Falls ’15, Joplin ’16)
- RHP Luis Mateo (Sioux City ’18)
- LHP Miguel Martinez (Coastal Bend ’07)
- 3B Coach Stephen Morales (Coastal Bend ’06-’07)
- C Wilfredo Rodriguez (Chicago ’18)
- LHP Caleb Thielbar (St. Paul ’11, ’16-’17)
- C Juan Apodaca (El Paso ’13)
- DH Balbino Fuenmayor (Laredo ’13)
