Silicon Storks announced it will hire Youri Visser as their new pitching coach for the 2020 season. This comes as a surprise as Visser was at the helm of the flagship team and decided to call it quits after the 2019 season. After Visser made clear he would stop as the head coach of Storks,…
We Dutch like to refer to the Dutch heritage of baseball players in the US. You can think of Bert Blyleven or Reinie Wolters (both born in the Netherlands but learned the game in the USA). You can also think of Win Remmerswaal, who learned the game in his country of birth. But there is…
According to a Tweet by Jennifer Mercedes, Curaçao born Hensley Meulens will be the new bench coach for the New York Mets. If this is true, Meulens will leave the Marlins, with whom he agreed on a role in the staff next to his old teammate and Marlins manager Don Mattingly. Being told that Hensley…
Recently you could read here about Dutch pitcher Mike Bolsenbroek having joined reigning Australian champion, the Brisbane Bandits. Today, he debuted for the Bandits in a 6-5 loss vs the Adelaide Giants (former Adelaide Bite). The Bandits took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fifth when Mitch Nilson singled to right field and…
It is that time of the year again. Several Dutch cities organize the athlete/ sports team of the year contest. Amsterdam and The Hague organize a vote like that. And guess what? There are some baseball-related persons and teams that you can vote for. In the contest of The Hague, Kalian Sams has been nominated…
After separate blog posts about the acquisitions and players that left L&D Amsterdam Pirates, Curaçao Neptunus, Oosterhout Twins, and HCAW, here is an overview of the other four clubs in the hoofdklasse. Perhaps the team that had to deal with some huge blows is Silicon Storks. The club lost seven players but got only two…
Like every year, it is quite a carousel during the transition period in Bussum. HCAW, that reached the playoffs for the third year in a row, lost many players but also saw many players join the club. In total, twelve players went to other clubs. The most remarkable and painful loss may be pitcher Kaj…
Once again, L&D Amsterdam saw several players go and added a lot of new players to its roster. Three of those players come from their farm team and one was playing for them last year more or less. Of the players that turned their back on the club, the name of Kevin Heijstek is the…
Runner up in the Holland Series, Curaçao Neptunus has made a few roster moves. The club from Rotterdam saw four players leave the club and added as many to their 2020 roster. The first player that will turn his back on the club is Jochem Koedijk, who returns to his hometown Haarlem. He will join…
Oosterhout Twins that didn’t make it to the playoffs last season, has added several new players to its roster. The club has added two players from Curaçao Neptunus, one from DSS, one from HCAW and one from Quick Amersfoort. The club saw four players leave: one to Curaçao Neptunus, one to HCAW and two to…
