Belgian Division One Transactions For 2026: Deurne Spartans

In the sixth episode of “Belgian Division One Transactions For 2026” we pay attention to the team that shared a third place finish in 2025: Deurne Spartans.

Yours truly is sad to report that quite an exodus has taken place from the ranks of Deurne Spartans. According to my source, five players left the club and only one player from outside was added to the 2026 roster.



Departures:

Victor Vandervelden leaves Spartans for Division Two club Ghent Knights.

Mauro van Mook will return to the Brussels Kangaroos, but last year he was on the roster of the Spartans and played in the Netherlands with Oosterhout Twins. SInce he had a good season in the Netherlands and no news about him leaving the club was published, there is a big chance that he will stay with Oosterhout Twins and will only join the Kangaroos if Twins is eliminated at an early stage.

José Luis Larrinaga Ocampo will also leave Spartans for the Ghent Knights.

Nabil Tauil will join the Merchtem Cats, as was mentioned in the previous blog post about transactions in Division One. He played only two games for the flagship team of Spartans in 2025.

Nasser Tauil has handed over his uniform, but it is unclear where he will go or if he will even keep playing baseball.

According to my source, only one player has been added so far. A certain Samual from the Merchtem Cats would join the Spartans. Checking the rosters of both Division One and Division Two teams, there is only one Samuel on the 2025 rosters of the Cats: Samuel Almao Mogollon. But that would contradict my previous blog post about the Merchtem Cats in which I wrote, that no player would leave.

Anyhow, Spartans has suffered a blow with the loss of five players.

I’d like to thank Luc van Hove for providing the much needed information for this blog post.

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