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Defending Oceania Champion Gold Coast won back-to-back Australasia League titles and set a league record with a 109-53 record. They scored 743 records, 105 more than second-best Adelaide, who gave a good effort in second place at 100-62.

Aardvarks 2B/SS Jimmy Caliw won a fourth straight MVP at only age 25. The left-handed Filipino narrowly beat his own single-season WAR record from the prior year with 13.4, also leading the league in runs (102), home runs (43), total bases (337), slugging (.577), OPS (.907), and wRC+ (179). Caliw also won a fifth consecutive Gold Glove, this time at second base. Pitcher of the Year was Melbourne’s Luke “Wild Thing” King. The 29-year old Australian lefty was the ERA leader at 1.85 and WHIP leader with 0.74, posting an absurd 19.6 K/BB with 352 strikeouts to only 18 walks in 292.1 innings. King had 10.6 WAR with a 21-7 record.



Samoa won the Pacific League title for the first time and not only let a PL record, but an overall OBA record with a 110-52 mark. They led the league in runs scored (616) and fewest allowed (399), finishing 20 games ahead of second place Honolulu. Last year’s champ Tahiti dropped to fourth place at 83-79.

Guam DH Sione Hala won his fifth league MVP with the 29-year old Tongan leading in WAR (9.8), runs (97), hits (196), home runs (52), total bases (393), slugging (.604), OPS (.949), and wRC+ (217). Samoa’s Brad Nelson won Pitcher of the Year with the 25-year old lefty from Vanuatu leading the league in strikeouts (457), innings (329), wins (28-6), and quality starts (35), adding a 1.75 ERA and 8.3 WAR. He also led the league with 126 walks allowed. His 457 strikeouts would’ve been a single-season if not for Brisbane’s Nathaniel Doloran getting 459 in the Australasia League. Nelson barely beat out Honolulu’s Matthew Falefa for the award with the American Samoan setting single season records for WHIP (0.63), opponent OBP (.184) and opponent OPS (.440), which remain single-season records as of 2037. He had Nelson beat in ERA as well at 1.30 and WAR (9.4), but lacked innings and strikeouts.

In the 13^th Oceania Championship, Gold Coast became the first team to repeat as champion. The Kangaroos defeated Samoa in five games, led by finals MVP CF Michael Severson. The 28-year old Gold Coast native in the series had 10 hits, six runs, two doubles, and seven stolen bases. His .555 average and .636 average for the series remain OBA records as of 2037.





Other notes: Pitcher of the Year Brad Nelson had 20 strikeouts in 8.2 innings against New Caledonia on April 27, tying the single-game OBA record. Nelson also had the second no-hitter of his career, striking out 14 with five walks against New Caledonia on July 19. Sakeo Rasalato became the first OBA pitcher to 3000 career strikeouts. MVP Sione Hala became the second hitter to 300 home runs. Danny Carrott became the third months later.

Port Moresby scored only 383 runs and had a .247 team OBP, both still all-time worsts in the Pacific League as of 2037. Melbourne had 1082 hits as a team, an all-time Australasia League low to that point. It remains third-worst as of 2037. Catcher Graham Parker won his record ninth Gold Glove, while LF Martin Topio got his eighth.