The Baseball United UAE Series between the Mid-East Falcons and Arabia Wolves will take place February 14 – 16. Games will be played at the new Baseball United Ballpark. Here’s a breakdown of the Wolves and Falcons rosters.
Arabia Wolves
Pitchers:
Jair Jurrjens
Dovydas Neverauskas
Todd Van Steensel
Alex Katz
Brian Schlitter
Cameron Gann
Ernest Ohandza
Sean Fekete
Lorenzo Riddle
Sandeesha Meegoda
Catchers:
Carlos Garzon
Vincent Ahrens
Shahid Ahmmed
Infielders:
Robinson Cano
Connor Panas
Christiaan Beyers
Hernan Perez
Outfielders:
Rudy Martin
L.P. Pelletier
Shuhei Fukuda
Courtney Hawkins
Dwight Smith Jr.
The Wolves roster features six players with Major League Baseball experience, three with Nippon Professional Baseball experience, and six with Minor League Baseball experience. Didi Gregorius is the highlight player for the Wolves, but the roster has players from Germany, the United States, Lithuania, Australia, Cameroon, Hungary, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, Canada, South Africa, Venezuela, and Japan.
Mid-East Falcons
Pitchers:
Collin Wiles
Severino Gonzalez
Kodai Hamaya
Mitch Lively
Konsta Kurikka
Matt Soren
Shingo Hirata
Yunis Halim
Steven Mufareh
Catchers:
Alberto Mineo
Leo Backstrom
Infielders:
Alex Liddi
Pablo Sandoval
Gregori Cano
Sam Abbott
Mitch Piatnik
Syam Lafi
Outfielders:
Gabriel Guerrero
Alejandro De Aza
Dillon Thomas
Rusney Castillo
Federico Celli
Sameera Rathnayake
Dylan Ahmed
Like the Wolves, the Falcons roster has MLB talent. Eight players with MLB experience will play for the Falcons, which will feature players from Panama, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Kuwait, and Cuba, as well as the countries represented on the Wolves roster.
Baseball United’s rosters reflect its mission to grow baseball in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The inclusion of MLB talent will help grow the sport while also helping Middle Eastern players improve their game.
Fans can watch the tournmnet this weekend on baseballunited.com.
