Joshua Alexander Guyer (born 27 May 1994) is an Australian

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for the

Sydney Blue Sox The Sydney Blue Sox are a professional baseball team, and one of six founding teams in the re-formed Australian Baseball League (ABL). The team plays their home games at Blacktown International Sportspark (BISP), one of the two venues used fo ...

of the

Australian Baseball League The Australian Baseball League (ABL) is a professional baseball league in Australia. The league is governed by the Australian Baseball Federation (ABF). It uses the same name as a now-defunct competition held during the 1990s, and though it s ...

Career

He was signed as a non drafted free agent by the

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on 26 July 2012 and played in the Twins farm system until he was released in 2015. Guyer was selected as a member of the

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for the

2017 World Baseball Classic The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts wer ...

, 2019 Canberra camp,

2019 WBSC Premier12 The 2019 WBSC Premier12 was an international baseball championship featuring the 12 highest-ranked national teams in the world, held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). It was the second WBSC Premier12 event. The championship w ...

and the

2023 World Baseball Classic The 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball tournament and the fifth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. It began on March 8, 2023, and ran until March 21. It was originally scheduled to take place in ...

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Australian baseball bio
1994 births Living people Australian expatriate baseball players in the United States Baseball pitchers Elizabethton Twins players Gulf Coast Twins players Sportspeople from Tamworth, New South Wales Sportsmen from New South Wales Sydney Blue Sox players 2017 World Baseball Classic players 2023 World Baseball Classic players 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-baseball-bio-stub