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The United States national under-12 baseball team is the national under-12 baseball team of United States in international-level baseball competitions. As of 2023, the team have won the U-12 Baseball World Cup total in five times.
The 12U national team is composed of players selected from the NTIS, the 12U National Open through the 12U open development camps and the 11U futures invitational. In 2015, the 12U national team claimed its second world championship in a row with a 7–2 win over Chinese Taipei in the WBSC U-12 Baseball World Cup.
The team would later be named "Outlaws". After winning the 2011 NYCBL title, the team moved to the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League (PGCBL) for the 2012 season, [8] but returned a year later after local businessman Gary Laing bought the team. [9] The Outlaws won another NYCBL title in 2013, but rejoined the PGCBL before the 2016 season. [10]
Unlike other youth international competitions like the Little League World Series, which involve local clubs, the U-12 Baseball World Cup is the only global event across baseball—and all of sport—to feature national teams in this age group (11 to 12 years-old). The U-12 Baseball World Cup is played under the IBAF's International Rules.
Along with the professional national team, USA Baseball also fields a Collegiate, 18U, 15U, and 12U National baseball team. All of the teams contribute to the WBSC ranking of the US National team through various tournaments hosted by the World Baseball Softball Confederation.
The group is organized into local chapters based in metropolitan areas. [13] The local chapters handle building support for the national teams at the local level, and are responsible for organizing members attending official U.S. national team games in their city, including parties pre- and post-game, and chants in the stands.
It currently consists six teams: four in the east and two in the west. As of its 2025 season, the minimum salary for a player will be CA$50,000, with each team allowed one "marquee player" whose salary of which only CA$75,000 counts towards a team's total salary cap of CA$1.5 million. [19] [20]
The M.I.N.K. Collegiate Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league consisting of nine teams. Currently, seven teams are from Missouri, two from Iowa. The league was formed in 2009 and was affiliated with the National Baseball Congress until 2015. [1]