Michael Varga

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 215 lb.

• School Florence-Darlington Technical College, Presbyterian College
• High School Edwin O. Smith High School

• Born March 13, 1997

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Biographical Information

Michael Varga has played in numerous countries.

He hit .444 as a high school senior while volunteering in Miracle League and Little League. In junior college, he hit .262 and .250, going to the 2017 NJCAA Division I Baseball World Series. Transferring to Presbyterian College, he slipped to .184/.235/.263 as a junior and .156/.270/.229 as a senior. Signing with Belgium's Mont-Saint-Guibert Phoenix to round out that summer, he produced at a .367/.443/.833 clip with 18 RBI in 16 games. He was second in the First Division in slugging and third with six homers. He was 0 for 6 for North America in the 2019 World Port Tournament.

Moving to the Attnang Athletics in 2020, he hit .365/.500/.857 with 9 homers, 26 runs and 29 RBI in 19 games. He was 9th in the Austrian Baseball League in average, tied Tobias Kiefer and Benni Salzmann for 5th in OBP, led in slugging (.083 ahead of Andreas Lastinger), led in OPS (48 ahead of Lastinger), led in homers (4 more than Heorhii Hvrytishvili, Kiefer, Sammy Hackl and Marcel Theiner) and was 3rd in RBI. He split 2021 between the Czech Draci Brno team (.239/.317/.352) and the US's Santa Fe Fuego (.256/.408/.410 in 14 G).

Varga did not play in 2022 then spent 2023 in Canada with the Drummondville Brock team in the Ligue de Baseball Senior Majeur du Québec; given that he had also wintered in Australia in the past, he was now up to at least 7 countries played in. With the '24 Schwechat Blue Bats and batted .306/.452/.528. He was 9th in slugging (between Julian Faulhaber and Ferdinand Obed) and tying for 5th in doubles (7). With the Hungarian national team in the 2025 European Championship, he was the starting catcher. Hitting cleanup in their opener, he struck out all 3 times against Croatia's Jose Diaz. He got his first hit off Belgium's Kevin De Smedt and added a dinger off Lucas Rizzi later that game as part of a 3-hit effort. He finished at .333/.385/.583 with two runs and a RBI in their four games, handling 17 chances error-free and allowing 4 steals in 4 tries.