Matas Sirgėdas

• Bats Right, Throws Right

• School Vilniaus kolegija

• Born November 18, 1998

Biographical Information

Matas Sirgėdas has played in Belgium and Britain and for the Lithuanian national team.

He hit .250/.348/.350 in the 2016 European Junior Championship, going 0-1 with a 15.63 ERA; he lost to Scott Prins and the Netherlands. He was 0 for 3 with a walk in the 2019 B-Level European Championship, debuting for the senior national team. By 2021, he was playing in Belgium's top league, going 0 for 6 with a HBP and two runs and allowing one run in 2 1/3 IP for the Borgerhout Squirrels. In the 2021 European Championship Qualifier, he defeated Greece's Daniel Gosselin but Greece avenged the loss in the title game. He allowed one run in 2 1/3 IP just as he did that summer in Belgium; he was 0 for 2 with a walk, hit-by-pitch and two runs.

At the 2022 European Championship Qualifier, he was 1 for 4 with a walk, run and a RBI and yielded four runs (three earned) in 4 1/3 IP. He scored their only run in their loss to Switzerland in the finale. In Belgium that year, he was 2-1 with a 6.60 ERA and batted .241/.421/.375 with 8 steals in 9 tries. He had a 0-1, 2.33 record and was 1 for 6 for BC Vetra in Britain. In '23, he had a 2-2, 3.81 record for the Squirrels and went 3-for-8 with two runs.

Matas produced at a .391/.500/.531 clip for Borgerhout in 2024, stealing 7 bases in 7 tries, and going 1-0 with a 6.75 ERA. Had he qualified, he would've been 4th in OBP (between Benjamin Goffaux and Zion De Brauwer), 5th in average and 7th in slugging (between Steven De Lannoy and Nando Mostaert). He also spent time in Britain again, going 1-3 with a 8.61 ERA and hitting .231/.394/.423. With Lithuania, he batted .273/.429/.273 with 4 runs in 3 games, fielding .786 and not pitching; Lithuania won a spot in the 2025 European Championship, their first European Championship. He tied for 6th in runs and was 4th with 7 assists but tied for 3rd with 3 errors.

In '25, he was 1-0 with 3 saves and a 2.37 ERA for the Squirrels, fielding .972 and batting .374/.517/.484 with 26 runs in 28 games, stealing 14 bases in 17 tries. He was 10th in OBP, second in HBP (14), tied for 5th in steals and tied former minor leaguer Fernando Chacon and Nathéo Collazos-Munoz for the save lead. During the 2025 Euros, he was used exclusively in center field. He batted second in Lithuania's European Championship debut; facing Greece's Noah Zavolas, a former AA hurler, he bunted Dovydas Zakaras over his first time up. Later that day, he was plunked by a TJ Laurisch pitch to drive in Andrius Stravinskas, the first RBI for Lithuania in a European Championship. He was 0-for-9 with a HBP for the event as a whole, handling four putouts in the field.