A lot of news about players from Curacao and Aruba came out today. First of all Xander Bogaerts received the MVP trophy of the Boston Red Sox. To me it doesn’t come as a surprise after I wrote about the possibility of Bogaerts being the AL MVP. The BWAA writers of the Boston region voted for…
We already knew that there are some similarities between baseball and cricket, but besides the bat and the ball I can’t tell any. The way of throwing is completely different, so the approach of a cricket batsman is different than a baseball batter. But that doesn’t make Windy cricket player Kieran Powell shy away from…
Thomas de Wolf, pitcher and outfielder of the Belgian national team and of the Stuttgart Reds was signed by the Evansville Otters of the independent Frontier League. De Wolf was the first player from Belgium that signed a deal with a Major League organization. In his case he played for the Mets in the Dominican…
A few weeks ago, this blog reported about the fact that the Atlantic League would fill the void that the New Britain RockCats left after the team moved to Hartford to become the YardGoats in 2016. There was a lot of talk and suggesting which Atlantic League team would move to New Britain. The name…
The city council of New Britain has agreed with a lease of the vacant stadium of the New Britain Rock Cats. The Rock Cats will move to Hartford, where they will become the YardGoats, so they will leave a basebal void in New Britian. Ever since the Rock Cats announced that they would move to…
The New Britain RockCats will be gone after the 2015 season. They will continue in a new city under a new moniker: the Hartford Yard Goats. With the RockCats leaving a void and an empty stadium, the independent Atlantic League has explored the possibility of becoming the new tennant of New Britain’s stadium. The only…
No this is not about Kalian Sams being beaten up by a horse. Nor didn’t he mistreat the horse so the animal hit him back. It is about a promotion that the Quebec Capitales held last night, Last week I showed a video in which Kalian Sams ran the bases to show his speed. Last…
Dutch national team player Kalian Sams is a speedy guy. For his current team, the Quebec Capitales, he has stolen 30 bases so far. Since Minor League baseball is all about promotions, the Capitales thought it was a nice idea to lure fans to the stadium with a speed race between Kalian Sams and a…
Dutch national team player Kalian Sams, who had been struggling of late, was named player of the week by the CanAm League. The outfielder of the Quebec Capitales went 11 for 22 in six games last week. The website of the Capitales announced the news with the following text: Kalian Sams fait parler son bâton…
Yesterday Dutch catcher Rodney Daal was released by the Evansville Otters. Daal, Amsterdam native signed a deal with the Otters in February, hardly played for the club from the independent Frontier League. After spring training he was placed on the DL and it took him until June 11 to get back on the roster. He only…
