Felix Astner

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 6' 0"

• Born August 25, 2001

Biographical Information

Felix Astner has been on the Austrian national team alongside brother Moritz Astner. Their father also played baseball in Austria while their mother and sister played softball.

He debuted with the Wiener Neustadt Diving Ducks in 2017, drawing a walk and scoring a run. In '18, he batted .288/.469/.329 followed by .253/.370/.253 in 2019; he tied for 9th in the league with 12 steals. He was 12-for-12 in swipes in 2020, when the 18-year-old hit .278/.435/.306, finishing second in stolen bases. In 2021, he scored 24 runs in 25 games, producing at a .302/.404/.360 clip. He then hit .310/.375/.310 with 10 runs in 9 postseason games as the team won the title.

In the 2022 Federation Cup, he was at .222/.263/.222 with 3 runs in 4 games. He hit .313/.443/.364 with 28 runs in 17 games that summer. In the 2023 U23 European Championship, he was 0 for 6 with 4 walks and a run. For the '23 Diving Ducks, he posted a .314/.368/.371 line and the team won the Austrian title.

Astner was 2-for-13 with a run in the 2024 European Cup. In the regular season, he hit .203/.301/.266 in an off-year but Wiener Neustadt repeated. He batted .308/.438/.538 in the 2025 European Cup, his 3 doubles being one behind event leader Frank Hernández. He hit .400/.514/.467 in a comeback season with 13 runs in 10 games and the Diving Ducks made it a three-peat. Debuting for Austria's senior national team in the 2025 European Championship, he made his first appearance as a pinch-hitter for Dominik Talir, drawing a walk from Belgium's Ben Van Nuffel and coming around to score. In his first at-bat, he smacked a two-run homer off Hungary's Carlos Rubio. It was his only hit in 6 AB in those Euros but he had 2 walks, a HBP, 3 runs and 2 RBI, posting a 1111 OPS. He had four putouts in center.