The Croatia national baseball team is the national baseball team of Croatia. As of the beginning of 2013 in the IBAF World Rankings, they were the seventh-best team in Europe and the 31st men's baseball team overall.IBAF World Rankings The team is controlled by the Croatian Baseball Association, which is represented in the Confederation of European Baseball. Croatia hosted one of the four pools during the first stage of play in the 2009 Baseball World Cup. The official IBAF 2014 end-of-year World Rankings put Croatia 43rd in the world. Croatia joined the Confederation of European Baseball in 1992.
In 2015, Croatia won the B-Level European Championship in Karlovac. They were undefeated in their pool, winning all five games.schedule In the championship game, Croatia defeated Slovakia 6–4 to win the Qualifier for the 2016 European Baseball Championship. Croatia finished in 12th place in the 2014 Euros and were relegated to the B-Level. Croatia competed in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, came in 11th out of 12 teams (beating only Team Sweden), but haven't been relegated because of enlargement of championship to 16 teams. The best result ever Croatia managed on 2021 European Baseball Championship where the 7th place was won in match against Belgium.
Osvaldo Vavra is the President of the Croatian Baseball Association. Božidar Rožman is the Vice President, and Zdenko Ostović is the Secretary General. Kristina Uroić is the executive director of the CBA, which is headquartered in the capital city, Zagreb.
2021 roster The following was the Croatian roster that participated in the 2021 European Championship held in Italy. PlayerNo.Pos.YOB Hrvoje Tadić 1 3B 1995 Nino Kruheh 2 C 1997 Rene Sebastian Bodalec 3 C/OF 2001 Karlo Kos 4 P/IF 1998 Andrija Tomić 5 C/OF 1996 Slobodan Gales 6 OF 1988 Jose Herrera 7 SS 1993 Borna Strelec 8 P/IF 2001 Petar Juričić 9 P/IF 2002 Marin Tadić 10 P 1990 Antonio Horvatic 11 P/IF 1997 Pavao Karin 12 P/OF 1990 Ronald Anthony Krsolovic 13 P/3B 1996 Mario Manojlov 14 1B/OF 1984 Andrew Jones 15 IF 1989 Jose Dias 16 P 1993 Benjamin Paulić 17 IF 2003 Philip Smith 19 C/1B 1990 Kruno Gojković 20 P/OF 1995 Petar Jure Rumora 21 1B/OF 1996 James Summers 23 P 1973
The manager of the team are Jake Summers, and the assistant coaches are Michel Ćurić, Damir Karin, Ken Krsolovic and Josip Bozanić.
Tournament results
Baseball World Cup 2009 : 18th
European Baseball Championship YearPositionPldWL 1997Did not Qualify 199911th725 20018th826 200310th844 200512th1019 20078th514 201011th514 201210th615 201412th725 201610th725 201911th817 20217th633 202310th633 20258th743Total13/38902663
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