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2026
- March 17: Venezuela wins the 2026 World Baseball Classic, defeating the United States in the final. Maikel García is named tournament MVP.
- February 20: Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski passes away at age 89.
- February 7: The Charros de Jalisco win the 2026 Caribbean Series; Michael Wielansky is named Caribbean Series MVP.
- February 5: The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inducts Stubby Clapp, Bill Stoneman, Jim Baba, Paul Runge, Kate Psota and Devon White.
- January 27: The Leones del Escogido go back-to-back as Dominican League winners. The finals MVP is Alcides Escobar.
- January 25: The Charros de Jalisco repeat as Mexican Pacific League champs. Julian Ornelas is named MVP of the finals.
- January 24: The Adelaide Giants win their third Australian Baseball League pennant in the past four winters. Devin Saltiban is picked as the finals MVP.
- January 20: The Cangrejeros de Santurce win their 17th Puerto Rican League title.
- January 20: Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones are elected to the Hall of Fame.
- January 15: Hideki Kuriyama wins induction in the 2026 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election.
- January 13: Cheng-Min Peng, Lai-Fa Lee and Kuo-Hui Lin are elected to the Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame.
- January 10: Luisangel Acuña has the first four-homer game in the 80-year history of the Venezuelan League.
2025
- December 19: Alex Smith and Doug Cowling are inducted into the British Baseball Hall of Fame.
- December 12: The Philippines national team wins the 2025 Southeast Asian Games.
- December 10: Joe Buck wins the Ford Frick Award.
- December 9: Paul Hoynes wins the Platinum Pen Award.
- December 7: Jeff Kent is elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
- December 5: The Colombian national team wins the 2025 Bolivarian Games. Tito Polo is named the MVP.
- December 4: Josh Naylor wins the Tip O'Neill Award for the year.
- December 2: Markus Solbach repeats as Bundesliga-1 North MVP while Billy Germaine wins the MVP for the South.
- November 26: Teruaki Sato wins the 2025 Central League MVP while Liván Moinelo takes home the 2025 Pacific League MVP. Kota Shoji is the 2025 Central League Rookie of the Year Award Rookie of the Year and Misho Nishikawa is the winner of the 2025 Pacific League Rookie of the Year Award.
- November 24: Cody Ponce wins KBO MVP for 2025 while Hyun-min Ahn takes the Rookie of the Year.
- November 13: Shohei Ohtani in the National League and Aaron Judge in the American League both repeat as winners of the Most Valuable Player Award.
- November 13: Edwin Díaz wins the Trevor Hoffman Award while Aroldis Chapman takes the Mariano Rivera Award.
- November 13: Hiroki Kokubo wins the Matsutaro Shoriki Award for 2025.
- November 12: Tarik Skubal repeats as the winner of the Cy Young Award in the American League while Paul Skenes is a unanimous winner of the Award in the National League.
- November 10: Nick Kurtz is the unanimous winner of the 2025 American League Rookie of the Year Award; Drake Baldwin wins the National League Award.
- November 5: Pedro Fernandez is named CPBL MVP for 2025. Shih-Hsiang Lin is the Rookie of the Year.
- November 2: Japan wins the 2025 Women's Baseball Asian Cup. The MVP goes to Sawa Kashizaki.
- November 1: The Los Angeles Dodgers win the 2025 World Series. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the World Series MVP.
- October 31: The LG Twins win the 2025 Korean Series. The Korean Series MVP is Hyun-soo Kim.
- October 30: The Softbank Hawks win the 2025 Japan Series, with Hotaka Yamakawa winning the Japan Series MVP.
- October 28: The Nicaraguan national team wins Gold in the 2025 Central American Games.
- October 27: The Rakuten Monkeys win the 2025 Taiwan Series. Pedro Fernandez is the Taiwan Series MVP.
- October 27: Hiromi Itoh wins the Sawamura Award for 2025.
- October 20: The Toronto Blue Jays win the American League pennant; Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is the ALCS MVP.
- October 17: The Los Angeles Dodgers win the National League pennant; Shohei Ohtani is named NLCS MVP.
- September 28: Japan wins the 2025 Asian Championship. The MVP is Kazuki Kondo.
- September 27: The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp win the Triple-A Baseball National Championship; Jacob Berry, who hits a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 9th inning, is named the game's MVP.
- September 27: The Dutch national team wins the 2025 European Championship. Didi Gregorius wins European Championship MVP.
- September 26: Venezuela wins the 2025 Pan American Women's Championship. Marlyn Yendez is named MVP.
- September 16: Cal Raleigh sets a new major league record for home runs by a switch-hitter in one season, eclipsing the mark held by Mickey Mantle.
- September 14: Team USA wins the 2025 U-18 Baseball World Cup for their 11th title, tying Cuba for the record; Coleman Borthwick is the MVP.
- September 13: Curaçao Neptunus Rotterdam wins the 2025 Holland Series. Tom de Blok is the MVP.
- September 13: The Diablos Rojos del México win the Mexican League championship.
- September 13: The Rouen Huskies repeat as French Division I titlists.
- September 10: Draci Brno wins their 4th Czech Extraliga championship in a row.
- September 9: ASD San Marino wins the 2025 Italian Series. Ortwin Pieternella Jr. is the Series MVP.
- September 7: Heidenheim Heideköpfe three-peats in the German Bundesliga-1, their sixth title in seven years.
- September 7: The Brasschaat Braves win their 14th Belgian First Division pennant.
- September 7: The Rättvik Butchers take their 4th consecutive Swedish Elitserien crown.
- August 28: Kyle Schwarber becomes the third player this season and 21st in major league history to have a four-homer game while also setting the Phillies' franchise record with nine RBI's in one game.
- August 24: Taipei wins the 2024 Little League World Series, Taiwan's first title in 28 years.
- August 18: Great Britain wins the 2025 European Women's Championship. Darier Malone is the MVP.
- August 18: Daichi Ishii sets the NPB record for consecutive games without a run allowed by keeping the opposing team from scoring for the 40th time.
- August 9: Jen Pawol becomes the first woman to work as an umpire in a regular season MLB game.
- July 28: Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg passes away at age 65 after a battle with cancer.
- July 27: The five members of the Class of 2025 are inducted into the Hall of Fame: Dick Allen, Dave Parker CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner
- July 25: Nick Kurtz becomes the first rookie and the 20th player overall to have a four-homer game.
- July 24: The Pacific League sweeps the 2025 NPB All-Star Games; Yuma Tongu and Kotaro Kiyomiya are the game MVPs.
- July 15: The National League wins the 2025 All-Star Game on a swing-off; Kyle Schwarber is named the winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP.
- July 13: High school shortstop Eli Willits becomes the first overall pick in the 2025 amateur draft.
- July 12: The National League wins the 2025 Futures Game. Josue De Paula wins the Larry Doby Award.
- July 2: Clayton Kershaw strikes out his 3,000th batter, becoming the 20th pitcher to reach the mark.
- June 28: Hall of Fame outfielder Dave Parker passes away at age 74.
- June 22: Louisiana State University wins the 2025 College World Series; Pitcher Kade Anderson is named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player.
- June 15: Tohoku Fukushi University wins the 2025 All-Japan University Baseball Championship Series.
- June 7: The University of Tampa wins the 2025 Division II College World Series.
- June 5: The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater wins the 2025 Division III College World Series.
- May 13: Jeong Choi becomes the first 500-homer man in Korea Baseball Organization history.
- April 26: Eugenio Suárez becomes the 19th player in major league history to have a four-homer game - and only the third to do so in a losing cause.
- March 6: Nicaragua, Colombia, Taiwan and Brazil win the 2026 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers.
- February 12: The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame announces its class of inductees for 2025, which consists of Amanda Asay, Jose Bautista, Erik Bedard, Greg Hamilton, Arleene Noga and Gerry Snyder.
- February 7: The Leones del Escogido win the 2025 Caribbean Series. Esmil Rogers is named Caribbean Series MVP.
- February 6: Karim García and Álvaro Ley López are inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
- January 31: The Canberra Cavalry win the 2024-2025 Australian Baseball League.
- January 29: The Charros de Jalisco capture their third Mexican Pacific League title.
- January 28: The Leones del Escogido take home their 17th Dominican League pennant.
- January 26: The Cardenales de Lara claim their 7th Venezuelan League championship.
- January 24: The Indios de Mayagüez win their 20th title in the Roberto Clemente Professional Baseball League.
- January 21: Three players are elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
- January 16: The 2025 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election yields four new Hall-of-Famers: Ichiro Suzuki, Hitoki Iwase, Masayuki Kakefu and Hiroya Tomizawa.
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