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rleb · 08-13-2017, 06:28 PM

Available Teams

Kalamazoo Badgers
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
2025 Team Record : 86-76
Home Stadium : Portage Park (capacity: 42,300)
(click above for team report)

Kalamazoo kept division rivals (and league powerhouse) Crystal Lake in their sights with
three second-place finishes to open their PEBA tenure, but soon the Badgers failed
to finish above .500, as the General Manager seat for the team became a revolving door.
Harry Bell, owner of Bell's Brewery, the team's outspoken owner, was vociferous in relating
his displeasure over the team’s failure to take steps forward. According to him, the team needed
stability in the front office to reach it's potential. Eventually, they found their man.

For the past 11 seasons the Badgers, lead by new GM Cole Hobson, began to carve themselves
into a contender. The team featured a balance of both offensive power and pitching prowess which
carried them up the standings. It was a never say die, tough-as-nails, lunch pail sort of team
which was able to give a solid product year in and year out and became a fixture in the division race.
From 2020 to 2025, the team finished with a winning record in four of the six seasons,
including a playoff appearance in 2021. After that initial taste, the team ramped up spending
in order to make playoff baseball a regular occurance.

This season, the team was competitive again, and missed out on a Wild Card spot by only one game.
The team sits on solid financial footing, with lots of wiggle room to mould them into a true contender.
Now, the General Manager seat for this scrappy team is available. Are you the GM to push them into the playoffs?

Fun Fact: During the franchise’s formation, the Badgers’ logo went through 67 iterations before the
current version was chosen.

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Okinawa Shisa
Location: Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
2025 Team Record : 68-94
Home Stadium : Shisa Stadium II (capacity: 55,000)
(click above for team report)

Okinawa, located on an island in a far-flung corner of southern Japan, is the most
isolated franchise in the PEBA. In terms of sports, people in the capital city of Naha bleed Okinawa baseball!
Reclusive 72-year-old owner Iyou Seigyoki, the founder of the Nyu Gijutsu Toiretta washlet
company, is known for his eccentricity and stern temperament. He is also one of the most
independently wealthy owners in Japanese baseball. Despite this, Okinawa always maintained a relatively frugal
budget, which has led some fans to suggest that Seigyoki cared more about his toilets than his team.

In 2015, the team's salary in the Japanese LRS ballooned to $45 million, far greater than any in
team history. Thanks to the pitching of Alberto Ramon and Naomichi Nakagawa, the team became a perennial
playoff contender in the LRS, making the post-season in the league's last six seasons, from 2015 to 2020.
However, they never quite captured the league's crown.

In 2021, the team, backed by long-time GM Morris Ragland, was absorbed into the larger PEBA, giving them
a new challenge. As part of the deal, the LRS teams kept their rosters, and would have to now compete with
the best baseball teams in the world... not an easy task. But, the perseverant little island
rose to the challenge, and Mr. Seigyoki opened his pocketbook just a little bit more, to ensure the team
had healthy funds to use. Thanks to the team's management and the available funds, the team
clawed their way back to competitiveness, producing a winning record in 2024.
The team is now well-established in the league, and has a healthy mid-range budget to work with.

With GM Ragland's appointment as PEBA's new Commissioner after the 2025 season,
the team is looking for a new GM that can take them to the playoffs and become
the first former Japanese LRS team to capture professional baseball's ultimate prize!

Fun Fact: The wild and unpredictable weather in the Okinawa region of Japan is legendary.
In order to remedy this, the team is now one of only five PEBA teams to play their games
inside a retractable roof stadium (the others being Fargo, London, Reno and Shin Seiki).

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San Antonio Calzones of Laredo
Location: Laredo, Texas
2025 Team Record : 71-91
Home Stadium : Elysian Fields (capacity: 43,000)
(click above for team report)

When Mötley Crüe frontman Nikki Sixx’s bid to bring an inaugural PEBA franchise to San Jose faltered,
B.H. Transportation Co. owner (and truck driver himself) Cledus “Snowman” Snow stepped in and
founded the Calzones within a mile of his company’s corporate headquarters. Finding the formula for
success under the baking Texas sun has not been easy for the Calzones. San Antonio endured three
consecutive seasons of 104 or more losses from ’11-‘13. In the last year of that stretch, fans made their
dissatisfaction with the team’s direction known by refusing to attend games until signs of progress
appeared. The team responded with a series of roster and coaching staff shake-ups. The moves may
have worked – San Antonio has slowly but surely been improving their record since that disastrous 2013 season.

"Trader Matt" Higgins, the team's original General Manager, was renowned for his
wheelings and dealings. No PEBA team completed nearly as many trades as 'Trader Matt'. As they
say, “If you don’t like the weather in Laredo, just wait a few minutes. You’ll probably be traded
elsewhere by then.”

After the 2019 season, 'Trader Matt' moved to the Kwaguchi Transmitters in Japan, in a bid to
start fresh when the LRS merged with the PEBA.

Meanwhile, the Calzones thought outside the box and in 2020, hired only
the third European GM in league history: Simon Kuliszewski of Poland.
This quiet, intelligent GM added stability and a willingness to build from within, on top of his
still-prolific propensity for trades. The team quickly became playoff challengers,
and hovered close to the wild card race for the past few seasons.
After the 2025 season, the GM seat has become available for this solid PEBA team.

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Scottish Claymores
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
2025 Team Record : 66-96
Home Stadium : The Castle (capacity: 35,000)
(click above for team report)

The team now known as the Scottish Claymores began life halfway across the world in the Japanese
LRS league, as the 'Fushigi Yigi Celestial Warriors'. A respectable club, they won the Japanese
championship twice, in 2010 and 2018. But in 2021, in order to create a true 'worldwide' league,
the PEBA and LRS merged, and the team decided to move to the USA in order to ensure future growth.

That year, the team settled in Dayton, Ohio as the 'Dayton Flyers', and prepared to take on
the best baseball teams in the world. However, the team inherited their LRS roster, and growing pains
were expected. The limited resources in Dayton meant that the team was never able to financially grow
past a modest 50-60 million dollar player payroll, and thus struggled to keep up.

One man who believed in the team was Philadelphia businessman Sam Hayes. After the 2023 season, he
bought the team, and negotiated to relocate them to Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. As crazy
as the idea sounds, the UK had already become baseball fans over the past two decades
thanks to the PEBA's London Underground (who even captured Europe's first PEBA title in 2018).
The team plays out of "The Castle"; a stadium that holds a modest number of fans, but
their home field is a middle-age-style stone structure that needs to be seen to be be believed!

The team is craving for an enthusiastic GM that wants to get this team off the ground, and
show the league (and especially their rivals in London!) what Scottish baseball can look like!

Fun Fact: When they introduce players on opening day, they are all dressed in proper Scottish
kilts, giving photographers a chance to snap some unique group pictures. Of course, to avoid
any wardrobe malfunctions, they quickly change back to a full baseball uniform before the game begins!

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Toyama Wind Dancers
Location: Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
2025 Team Record : 79-83
Home Stadium : Castle of Cagliostro (capacity: 59,000)
(click above for team report)

The Toyama Wind Dancers might have one of the strangest background stories of any of the 26 PEBA franchises. The team began in
Japan's top-tier "League of the Rising Sun", or LRS, in 2007 as the Lupin Cliff Hangers. They started strongly in the
first few years, but then went through a horrid decade and became better known amongst Japanese baseball fans for their
garish multicolored uniforms and odd ownership group than their play on the field. The Cliff Hangers, despite being located
in the city and prefecture of Toyama, were actually named after Lupin Ltd., a pharmaceutical company located in Mumbai, India, which owned the team.

After a decade of ineffective play, the team brought in an enthusiastic new GM, Ron Collins, to turn the team around. In 2019,
the team finally qualified for the LRS post-season again, and in the last LRS season in 2020, the team captured the Neo-Tokyo Cup!

In 2021, the Japanese league was absorbed into the larger, US/Euro-based PEBA to create one truly worldwide baseball entity.

Since the teams in Japan retained their comparatively modest LRS rosters as part of the merger, this would have been a tough transition for any
team, and Lupin was no exception; losing 103 games in their first PEBA season. But, thanks to GM Collins' clever work
in the front office, the team finished with two consecutive 98-win seasons in both 2023 and 2024.
In order to be taken more seriously and shed their cartoonish image, the team was renamed the Toyama Wind Dancers three years ago,
and adopted a new white/brown/maroon color scheme. You could say the team is now "growing up", as they become a force in
PEBA's competitive Rising Sun division.

The team is now looking for a new General Manager! The door is open for someone new to take over this unique (and currently competitive)
team in PEBA!

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rleb Major Leagues Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada Posts: 311	Available Teams Kalamazoo Badgers Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan 2025 Team Record : 86-76 Home Stadium : Portage Park (capacity: 42,300) (click above for team report) Kalamazoo kept division rivals (and league powerhouse) Crystal Lake in their sights with three second-place finishes to open their PEBA tenure, but soon the Badgers failed to finish above .500, as the General Manager seat for the team became a revolving door. Harry Bell, owner of Bell's Brewery, the team's outspoken owner, was vociferous in relating his displeasure over the team’s failure to take steps forward. According to him, the team needed stability in the front office to reach it's potential. Eventually, they found their man. For the past 11 seasons the Badgers, lead by new GM Cole Hobson, began to carve themselves into a contender. The team featured a balance of both offensive power and pitching prowess which carried them up the standings. It was a never say die, tough-as-nails, lunch pail sort of team which was able to give a solid product year in and year out and became a fixture in the division race. From 2020 to 2025, the team finished with a winning record in four of the six seasons, including a playoff appearance in 2021. After that initial taste, the team ramped up spending in order to make playoff baseball a regular occurance. This season, the team was competitive again, and missed out on a Wild Card spot by only one game. The team sits on solid financial footing, with lots of wiggle room to mould them into a true contender. Now, the General Manager seat for this scrappy team is available. Are you the GM to push them into the playoffs? Fun Fact: During the franchise’s formation, the Badgers’ logo went through 67 iterations before the current version was chosen. ----- Okinawa Shisa Location: Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan 2025 Team Record : 68-94 Home Stadium : Shisa Stadium II (capacity: 55,000) (click above for team report) Okinawa, located on an island in a far-flung corner of southern Japan, is the most isolated franchise in the PEBA. In terms of sports, people in the capital city of Naha bleed Okinawa baseball! Reclusive 72-year-old owner Iyou Seigyoki, the founder of the Nyu Gijutsu Toiretta washlet company, is known for his eccentricity and stern temperament. He is also one of the most independently wealthy owners in Japanese baseball. Despite this, Okinawa always maintained a relatively frugal budget, which has led some fans to suggest that Seigyoki cared more about his toilets than his team. In 2015, the team's salary in the Japanese LRS ballooned to $45 million, far greater than any in team history. Thanks to the pitching of Alberto Ramon and Naomichi Nakagawa, the team became a perennial playoff contender in the LRS, making the post-season in the league's last six seasons, from 2015 to 2020. However, they never quite captured the league's crown. In 2021, the team, backed by long-time GM Morris Ragland, was absorbed into the larger PEBA, giving them a new challenge. As part of the deal, the LRS teams kept their rosters, and would have to now compete with the best baseball teams in the world... not an easy task. But, the perseverant little island rose to the challenge, and Mr. Seigyoki opened his pocketbook just a little bit more, to ensure the team had healthy funds to use. Thanks to the team's management and the available funds, the team clawed their way back to competitiveness, producing a winning record in 2024. The team is now well-established in the league, and has a healthy mid-range budget to work with. With GM Ragland's appointment as PEBA's new Commissioner after the 2025 season, the team is looking for a new GM that can take them to the playoffs and become the first former Japanese LRS team to capture professional baseball's ultimate prize! Fun Fact: The wild and unpredictable weather in the Okinawa region of Japan is legendary. In order to remedy this, the team is now one of only five PEBA teams to play their games inside a retractable roof stadium (the others being Fargo, London, Reno and Shin Seiki). ----- San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Location: Laredo, Texas 2025 Team Record : 71-91 Home Stadium : Elysian Fields (capacity: 43,000) (click above for team report) When Mötley Crüe frontman Nikki Sixx’s bid to bring an inaugural PEBA franchise to San Jose faltered, B.H. Transportation Co. owner (and truck driver himself) Cledus “Snowman” Snow stepped in and founded the Calzones within a mile of his company’s corporate headquarters. Finding the formula for success under the baking Texas sun has not been easy for the Calzones. San Antonio endured three consecutive seasons of 104 or more losses from ’11-‘13. In the last year of that stretch, fans made their dissatisfaction with the team’s direction known by refusing to attend games until signs of progress appeared. The team responded with a series of roster and coaching staff shake-ups. The moves may have worked – San Antonio has slowly but surely been improving their record since that disastrous 2013 season. "Trader Matt" Higgins, the team's original General Manager, was renowned for his wheelings and dealings. No PEBA team completed nearly as many trades as 'Trader Matt'. As they say, “If you don’t like the weather in Laredo, just wait a few minutes. You’ll probably be traded elsewhere by then.” After the 2019 season, 'Trader Matt' moved to the Kwaguchi Transmitters in Japan, in a bid to start fresh when the LRS merged with the PEBA. Meanwhile, the Calzones thought outside the box and in 2020, hired only the third European GM in league history: Simon Kuliszewski of Poland. This quiet, intelligent GM added stability and a willingness to build from within, on top of his still-prolific propensity for trades. The team quickly became playoff challengers, and hovered close to the wild card race for the past few seasons. After the 2025 season, the GM seat has become available for this solid PEBA team. ----- Scottish Claymores Location: Edinburgh, Scotland 2025 Team Record : 66-96 Home Stadium : The Castle (capacity: 35,000) (click above for team report) The team now known as the Scottish Claymores began life halfway across the world in the Japanese LRS league, as the 'Fushigi Yigi Celestial Warriors'. A respectable club, they won the Japanese championship twice, in 2010 and 2018. But in 2021, in order to create a true 'worldwide' league, the PEBA and LRS merged, and the team decided to move to the USA in order to ensure future growth. That year, the team settled in Dayton, Ohio as the 'Dayton Flyers', and prepared to take on the best baseball teams in the world. However, the team inherited their LRS roster, and growing pains were expected. The limited resources in Dayton meant that the team was never able to financially grow past a modest 50-60 million dollar player payroll, and thus struggled to keep up. One man who believed in the team was Philadelphia businessman Sam Hayes. After the 2023 season, he bought the team, and negotiated to relocate them to Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. As crazy as the idea sounds, the UK had already become baseball fans over the past two decades thanks to the PEBA's London Underground (who even captured Europe's first PEBA title in 2018). The team plays out of "The Castle"; a stadium that holds a modest number of fans, but their home field is a middle-age-style stone structure that needs to be seen to be be believed! The team is craving for an enthusiastic GM that wants to get this team off the ground, and show the league (and especially their rivals in London!) what Scottish baseball can look like! Fun Fact: When they introduce players on opening day, they are all dressed in proper Scottish kilts, giving photographers a chance to snap some unique group pictures. Of course, to avoid any wardrobe malfunctions, they quickly change back to a full baseball uniform before the game begins! ----- Toyama Wind Dancers Location: Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan 2025 Team Record : 79-83 Home Stadium : Castle of Cagliostro (capacity: 59,000) (click above for team report) The Toyama Wind Dancers might have one of the strangest background stories of any of the 26 PEBA franchises. The team began in Japan's top-tier "League of the Rising Sun", or LRS, in 2007 as the Lupin Cliff Hangers. They started strongly in the first few years, but then went through a horrid decade and became better known amongst Japanese baseball fans for their garish multicolored uniforms and odd ownership group than their play on the field. The Cliff Hangers, despite being located in the city and prefecture of Toyama, were actually named after Lupin Ltd., a pharmaceutical company located in Mumbai, India, which owned the team. After a decade of ineffective play, the team brought in an enthusiastic new GM, Ron Collins, to turn the team around. In 2019, the team finally qualified for the LRS post-season again, and in the last LRS season in 2020, the team captured the Neo-Tokyo Cup! In 2021, the Japanese league was absorbed into the larger, US/Euro-based PEBA to create one truly worldwide baseball entity. Since the teams in Japan retained their comparatively modest LRS rosters as part of the merger, this would have been a tough transition for any team, and Lupin was no exception; losing 103 games in their first PEBA season. But, thanks to GM Collins' clever work in the front office, the team finished with two consecutive 98-win seasons in both 2023 and 2024. In order to be taken more seriously and shed their cartoonish image, the team was renamed the Toyama Wind Dancers three years ago, and adopted a new white/brown/maroon color scheme. You could say the team is now "growing up", as they become a force in PEBA's competitive Rising Sun division. The team is now looking for a new General Manager! The door is open for someone new to take over this unique (and currently competitive) team in PEBA! ----- __________________ Former GM, New Orleans Trendsetters PEBABaseball.com Pro Baseball in Atlantic Canada? Yup! 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