It's the fourth title for Pakistan. Both finalists qualified for the Asian Baseball Championship, which is a qualification event for the WBSC U-23 Baseball World Cup. Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh in the bronze-medal game.

Korea will participate in the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA) Qualifier for the IV WBSC Women's Baseball World Cup, scheduled from 21 May to 2 June in Hong Kong.

Asoball is a baseball-type experience programme "to nurture baseball/softball talent among toddlers and preschoolers" and which can also be played by parents.

Ryoji Kuribayashi, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Takuya Kai; Sosuke Genda, Munetaka Murakami, Tetsuto Yamada Kensuke Kondo, Masataka Yoshida and Seiya Suzuki competed in the Tokyo 2020 Games. Manager Hideki Kuriyama announced a 30-player roster also featuring five MLB players, including two-way superstar, WBSC Premier12 hero Shohei Ohtani and World Baseball Classic winner Yu Darvish.

I-Chung Hong, the Taiwan professional baseball record holder with 991 wins, was named inaugural manager of the expansion team TSG Hawks. The Hawks will participate in the CPBL minor league season in 2023 before making their debut in 2024.

The list is updated to 215 names. Inductions started in 1959.

World No. 4 Korea will compete in Group B in Tokyo from 9-13 March and face No. 1 Japan, No. 10 Australia, No. 15 Czech Republic and No. 30 China.

The Bhutan Baseball Softball Association launched a U-18 baseball league in August 2022 and plans to add more youth baseball and softball competition and a men's baseball adult league within 2023.

The one-day course introduced the basic rules of Baseball5 to 31 participants.

The list includes two-way phenom and WBSC Premier12 hero Shohei Ohtani (pictured, left), Premier12 2019 MVP Seiya Suzuki as well as hard-throwing right-hander and WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup alum Roki Sasaki.