Baseball in Sweden and Australia from two perspectives

In BBJO podcast episode 14, I interview international baseball coach Trevor Rooper and player Scotty Mulhearn. Trevor has coached in Holland, Austria, Sweden , Brisbane (Australia) and now has signed on with a club in Sydney Australia for the 2013-2014 winter. In 2011, Trevor led the Attnang Athletics of Austria to an all time record of 24-4 and most recently coached Stockholm to the 2013 championship title. Trevor gives us detail on the opportunities for import players and coaches in Sweden and Australia and the compensation one can expect. He provides information on the leagues and the clubs within both the Swedish Elite League and the Greater Brisbane Baseball League. Scotty is a native of Brisbane, Australia and plays ball in the same Brisbane league that Trevor coached in. He has also played baseball in Japan, Sweden (Karlskoga) and most recently with the same club Rooper coached in Austria, the Attnang Athletics. Scotty has since signed on for a second season with the Athletics in 2014. Scotty goes into a lot of depth about baseball in Brisbane and shares a lot about Swedish baseball as well. He tells his Japan story as well. He speaks on the opportunities to play in Brisbane and to work your way up to the Australian baseball league from the Brisbane league. Both gentlemen are asked to compare baseball in Sweden to Austria to help listeners form a more accurate view of baseball in the two countries and what they both present to the baseball professional. At the end of the interview I introduce a new feature to the podcast which is dubbed the “IBC Insider Tip” where I share a relevant tip that is exclusive for IBC podcast listeners who are seeking every advantage they can get in their pursuit of an international career in baseball.