The Premier 12 is a brand new tournament created to take the place of the Baseball World Cup, which was ended in 2011 in favor of awarding the title of World Champion to the winner of the World Baseball Classic. It is organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), a merger of the International Softball and Baseball Federations in a re-branding effort to sell baseball and softball as a single sport sport with male and female disciplines, rather than separate sports, with an eye toward getting the American pastime back into the Olympics. In the (at this point quite likely) event that baseball-softball returns to the Olympics in 2020, the 2019 Premier 12 tournament would serve as the qualifying tournament for the games.
Brett Phillips headlines Team USA in Premier 12 Tournament
