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PERFECT GAME LAUNCHES NEW GLOBAL COUNTRY PARTNER PROGRAM TO EXPAND INTERNATIONAL BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL PATHWAYS

Sanford, Florida (Thursday, September 3, 2026) - Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, today announced the launch of its new Country Partner Program, an initiative designed to expand Perfect Game’s international presence while creating new opportunities for aspiring athletes around the world.

 Through the Country Partner Program, select organizations will become the exclusive Perfect Game partner within their respective countries through annual licensing agreements. Each Country Partner will be responsible for managing local operations and growing the Perfect Game platform in its market, with an emphasis on building strong relationships with local baseball and softball organizations, teams, coaches, players and other key stakeholders.

Perfect Game will, in turn, provide global marketing, PR and social media support, DiamondKast streaming and scouting analytics, PG Player Profiles for all international players, and global brand, sponsorship, and media oversight. PG will also provide instructional training for all Country Partners to ensure a consistent, high-quality of execution around the world.

The program is designed to create a connected international pathway within the Perfect Game ecosystem, beginning with regional events and opportunities for players to compete locally before advancing to national showcases and, ultimately, an international flagship tournament featuring top talent from around the world. The new program will also give international players the opportunity to be scouted and recruited by U.S. colleges, universities and professional teams, all of which use Perfect Game’s scouting platform within their player evaluation process.

“There are more than 500 million baseball fans and 65 million baseball and softball participants around the world,” said Kash Shaikh, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of International at Perfect Game. But there’s never been a unified international platform for competitive baseball and softball players to get scouted and recruited by the best schools, programs and leagues in the world. By extending Perfect Game’s best-in-class events, media, data, and scouting platform across the world, now there is. We will create more opportunities for more kids in more countries around the world.”

 Shaikh joined Perfect Game in April as Chief Marketing Officer and Head of International after spending the last four years building Baseball United, the first professional baseball league in the Middle East and South Asia. As part of that work, Shaikh worked with dozens of baseball federations and event operators across five continents, many of which will be involved in PG’s global expansion.

All Country Partner events will be run using Perfect Game’s event management platform. The new program will also enable more brands to activate within Perfect Game’s dynamic ecosystem, from large, multinational partners to country-specific sponsors with plans to establish a network of Country Partners across key international baseball and softball markets. The initiative will also create opportunities for players from participating countries to compete against one another and gain exposure to coaches, scouts and other members of the baseball and softball community.

“The international growth of Perfect Game has been part of our vision for a long time,” said Perfect Game Chairman Rick Thurman. We’ve always been focused on identifying talent and creating new pathways for athletes around the world. Now, we have the right team, structure, and plan in place to take things to the next level. Our new Country Partner Program allows us to bring that philosophy to markets around the world in a meaningful and sustainable way.”

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Media contact:

Greg Casterioto / Gcasterioto@perfectgame.org / (267) 246-5709

About Perfect Game

Perfect Game is the world’s largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing nearly 10,000 events, hundreds of thousands of games and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players perform with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, over 2,600 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 15,805 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2025 Draft, for example, 92 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft’s first day had previously attended Perfect Game events.