Last year’s champions of the KBO, the NC Dinos have received their personal championship trophies. What the players of the first time KBO champion, that celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, received, wasn’t too shabby.
Have a look and judge yourself yourself.
The ring is as preposterous as those in MLB but when you put it on the pedestal, it looks pretty nice as a whole.
Just my two cents.
Today, the World Baseball and Softball Confederation unveiled the new World Ranking. The top three did not change much. Japan and Chinese Taipei are still firm in first and second place, but Korea was overtaken by the USA for rank #3. Of the European countries, the Netherlands remains the strongest. As a matter of fact,…
After a very successful season in which he helped the Kia Tigers win the KBO championship, Roger Bernadina has signed a one-year extension with the club from Gwangju. The Tigers have been very active to keep the trio of foreign players in their team. Next to Bernadina, the club signed Hector Noesi to a $2…
According to Chunichi Sports, the Yomiuri Giants are also interested in Dutch pitcher Rick van den Hurk. The 196 cm (6 ft 5) tall Van den Hurk is currently pitching for the Samsun Lions of the KBO (Korean Professional Baseball League). This season, Van den Hurk won thirteen games and lost four. He leads the…
Hensley Meulens, the Curaçao-born bench coach of the San Francisco Giants made his first step in Major League Baseball, today 30 years ago. With the New York Yankees, Meulens became the first player from Curaçao to make it to the bigs. Meulens was signed by the Yankees as an undrafted free agent in 1985. After…
As all KBO clubs signed the foreign players they needed and that market closed on December 29, Roger Bernadina wasn’t signed by any of the ten KBO clubs. Earlier during the KBO offseason, the Kia Tigers announced they would not re-sign Bernadina as his numbers dropped and as he has spent some time on the…
Today Roger Bernadina hit his 20th home run of the season. With this dinger he accomplished a feat not many have done: He became the 45th player in the KBO to hit 20 home runs and stole 20 bases. In fact, Roger has stolen 21 bases. He reached the 20-stolen base mark on July 23 vs…
