Dominick Golubiewski

Dominick Golubiewski

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 205 lb.

• School University of Dayton, Madison Area Technical College
• High School Notre Dame Academy

• Born July 15, 1994

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Biographical Information

Dominick Golubiewski has played in Germany and Austria and for the Polish national team.

He won a state title in high school. Playing for Poland in the 2013 B-Level European Championship, hitting .421/.476/.737 with four runs and five RBI in five games, stealing five bases in five tries and fielding .900. He led Poland in OBP, slugging, RBI, doubles (2), triples (2), runs (tied) and steals (two ahead of Przemyslaw Paluch) while finishing second in average, .017 behind Milosz Paprocki. He was 8th in the event in average, led in slugging (.037 ahead of Ruslan Deikun), ranked ninth in OBP, tied for 4th in hits, tied for 5th in RBI (with Mitch Evans, Ryan Trask and Krum Temelkov), tied for 3rd in doubles, tied Andriy Kubalskyi for the triple lead, tied Kubalskyi and Deikun for the most total bases (14) and tied for 2nd in steals. As a freshman in college, he was used as a pitcher, going 4-0 with a 4.13 ERA. He was redshirted in 2015 and had a 2-0, 6.52 record in 2016.

Transferring to Dayton, he was 0-1 with a 17.61 ERA and 3.13 WHIP in 2017. He was Poland's top hitter again in the 2017 B-Level European Championship (he did not play for them in 2015, when he was redshirted in college), going 8 for 16 with 3 homers, 2 walks, 6 runs and 5 RBI in 5 games, while handling 18 chances error-free. He allowed five runs (four earned) in six innings on the hill. He was among the event's leaders in average (tied Edvardas Matusevičius for 2nd, .100 behind Denis Leonov), slugging (3rd, behind Leonov and Matusevičius), OBP (3rd), hits (tied for 3rd with Matusevičius and Michal Ešmír), runs (tied for 3rd), RBI (tied for 3rd), homers (tied for first with Matusevičius, Leonov and Martin Lukačka), total bases (17, 3rd, one behind Leonov and Matusevičius) and assists (12, tied for 1st with Kostiantyn Chukhas, Alexey Kobrinets and Roman Boiko). He also played for Poland in the 2017 European Championship U23, producing at a .393/.452/.607 clip with 10 runs, 8 RBI and 5 steals in 6 tries, handling 55 chances error-free. He led in fielding (José Alemán was second with 51 chances at 1.000), tied for 4th in runs, tied for 2nd in hits (11, 2 behind Denzel Richardson), was 5th with 17 total bases and tied Sam Buelens and Leonel Cespedes for 2nd in steals (one behind Daniil Khomyakov).

Concluding his college career with three runs in three innings for Dayton in 2018, he then signed with the German Stuttgart Reds, going 8 for 25 the rest of the summer. He hit .571/.600/.929 with five RBI in four games for Poland in the 2019 B-Level European Championship, but did not lead the team in average as Marek Podgorski hit .600. He was third in the event behind Podgorski and Vytas Valincius. He was also 4th in slugging, tied Vladyslav Kosenko for 5th in OBP and tied for 6th with 13 total bases. In 2019, he hit .189/.378/.268 for the Mainz Athletics, playing mostly second base. Oddly, he continued to be almost entirely a position player in Europe or European tournaments while his collegiate career had been solely as a pitcher.

His next stop was with the Dornbirn Indians in the Austrian Baseball League. He hit .375/.500/.696, finishing 4th in slugging behind Philipp Eckel, Heorhii Hvrytishvili and Tobias Werner. In the 2021 CEB Cup, he hit .368/.478/.579 with four doubles, seven runs and five runs in five games, while pitching two shutout innings. He tied for 4th in the Cup in runs, tied for 2nd in doubles (one behind Blake Ochoa) and tied for 8th in RBI. With Poland for the 2021 European Championship Qualifier, he was their star hitter, going 5 for 11 with 2 walks, a homer (off Eduard Pirvu) and 5 steals in 3 gams. He tied Chukhas, Serhii Tykhonets and Marquis Richards for 4th in steals. His 1298 OPS led Poland by 440 points ahead of Radosław Zajda.