With a strategic focus on the 10–15-year-old age range, Perfect Game, the biggest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service in the world, announced a major expansion of its footprint throughout the Asia-Pacific Zone. As Perfect Game expands its global reach and fortifies routes for top young development, the program will be spearheaded in collaboration with renowned Japanese youth baseball executive and coach Takaharu Nasu.
Perfect Game will expand its operational and developmental presence in major baseball markets, such as Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and other nations in the area, as part of this expansion. The endeavor demonstrates Perfect Game’s sustained dedication to fostering the game’s worldwide expansion while upholding its standards for player development, competition, and scouting.
The launch of Perfect Game’s DiamondKast® technology, the business’s top digital scoring and data platform, is one of the improvements slated for the Asia-Pacific Zone growth. DiamondKast will link the Pacific Rim experience with Perfect Game events across the globe by giving teams, players, families, and coaches in the area access to real-time game data, sophisticated statistics, and increased visibility. In order to measure individual player statistics and identify gifted young baseball players around the region, showcases will also be staged in different locales.
“This expansion represents a major step forward in Perfect Game’s international vision,” said Perfect Game Chairman Rick Thurman. “With Takaharu Nasu’s leadership and deep understanding of the baseball culture throughout the Pacific Rim, we are positioned to create meaningful opportunities for young athletes while connecting global baseball communities.”
As a result of the Pacific Rim’s ongoing expansion, Asian youth baseball teams will start playing in Perfect Game tournaments in the US in 2026, giving players a rare chance to compare themselves to the best domestic players and witness firsthand what it’s like to compete at the highest levels.
With solid connections throughout Asia’s most developed and developing baseball markets, Nasu has more than ten years of experience in international baseball growth and administration. In addition to coaching the Ichihara Pony squad for the previous ten years, he has been the representative director of the Japan Pony Baseball Association for the last eight years. Building long-term avenues for international participation, coordinating local groups with Perfect Game criteria, and developing sustainable programs will be his main responsibilities.
“By bringing Perfect Game and its technology to the Asia-Pacific Zone, we will be able to discover promising players from the region that otherwise may have gotten overlooked for various reasons,” said Nasu. “We strongly believe that Perfect Game is a league that is in line with the times and a baseball organization that can help produce many future top players.”
The Asia-Pacific Zone effort by Perfect Game highlights the company’s overarching goal to expand the game worldwide, promote competitive excellence, and give young athletes unparalleled exposure and development opportunities regardless of where they compete.
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