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Eurasian Professional Baseball didn’t add any players into the Hall of Fame in 2025, its first blank ballot since 2021. Two got painfully close to the 66% requirement with SP Nijat Statsky at 65.3% on his sixth ballot and CL Povilas Zdancius with 64.9% in his debut. 1B Benjamin Bodnar was the only other player above 50% with 54.1% for his sixth try.



Catcher Nikita Romaschenko fell off the ballot after ten failed tries, peaking at 30.3% in 2017 and ending at 14.2%. He was hurt by the general anti-catcher bias of voters, but Romaschenko also was merely an above average hitter even by catcher standards. Still, he ranks third in WAR at the position in EPB history as of 2037. However, there still hasn’t been a single catcher added into EPB’s HOF despite more than 80 seasons of the league.

Romaschenko had four Silver Sluggers, one Gold Glove, 2000 games, 1655 hits, 703 runs, 318 doubles, 169 home runs, 701 RBI, 716 walks, 1641 strikeouts, .244/.317/.373 slash, 115 wRC+, and 64.0 WAR. He also had three championship rings and was finals MVP for Yekaterinburg in 2004. Still, even if you gave catchers some grace, his offensive stats were never going to be impressive enough to get the nod.