Oskar Syrén

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 4", Weight 233 lb.

• School College of the Canyons
• High School Leksand Gymnasium

• Born June 10, 1999

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Biographical Information

Oskar Syrén has played in Sweden and the Netherlands and for the Swedish national team, like his brother Jakob Syrén.

In the 2015 European Junior Championship, he was 0-2 with a 6.00 ERA. He was worse in the 2016 European Junior Championship, going 0-1 and allowing nine runs (eight earned) in 2/3 IP for the tourney's highest ERA. He was 2-1 with a 5.48 ERA for the Rättvik Butchers in the 2016 Elitserien, tying for 10th in the league in wins.

Syrén was 5-2 with a save and a 3.34 ERA in 2017, finishing second in the league in wins, seventh in ERA (between Emil Sahlin and Per Sjörs) and sixth with 47 strikeouts. He also hit .354/.475/.548 in limited time as a position player. In 2018, he had a 4-2, 2.88 record. He tied for 4th in wins and was 5th in ERA but fell to .208/.309/.250 on offense. He then continued a tradition of Swedish prospects going to play junior college ball in the US. In 2019, he was 1-2 with a 8.33 ERA for College of the Canyons; he was not their only Swedish player that year as Adam Hopkins and Trolle Brandt were also present.

The tall right-hander (even if dwarfed by his 6' 8" brother) was 2-0 with a 3.04 ERA for the 2019 Butchers when he returned from the US. He was 0-2 with a 4.24 ERA for the 2020 Butchers and hit .200/.310/.280. He was 8th in ERA and 6th in strikeouts (between Nicklas Melin and his brother). In '21, he moved to the Leksand Lumberjacks and was 4-1 with a 1.32 ERA while producing at a .180/.358/.320 clip. He tied Sjörs, Jakob Claesson and Ben Johnson for third in wins, was 6th with 39 K (between Sjörs and Claesson) and won the ERA title by .70 ahead of Johnson. He also pitched briefly for Quick Amersfoort in the 2021 Hoofdklasse, going 0-1 with a 4.66 ERA.

He and his brother then dominated the Swedish staff in the 2021 European Championship, making four of their six starts and getting decisions in all of them (Johnson and Erik Marqvardsen each started one game). Oskar got their first win, beating Slovakia and Michal Puškár with a complete game mercy rule shutout (7 H, 0 BB, 7 K in 7 IP). He allowed a hit to Martin Brunegraf but then retired Michal Ešmír and cruised from there. His next outing came versus Austria. He pitched okay (7 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 3 K) but lost to Christian Tomsich. He was fifth in innings for the Euros (between Tomsich and Jose Diaz), tied Johnson for the event lead in shutouts (both complete game shutouts were thrown by a Swedish team that was otherwise 0-4) and tied for second in starts (one behind Joey Wagman).