The Eastern Shore League debuted in 1922 and lasted through 1928. The second run of the league was in from 1937 through 1941. The final run lasted four years, from 1946 through 1949. The league was classified as a Class D League. During the first run of the Eastern Shore League, the champions played the…
The El Paso Chihuahuas,the AAA farm team of the San Diego Padres, the team with arguably one of the worst logos in Minor League Baseball (I know, I know, it’s a matter of taste), have announced that the team will wear brown-yellow jerseys Padres throwback jerseys on May 7. Throwback because the Padres wore this…
There are a lot of players from the Dutch Kingdom active in the Minor Leagues. The biggest chunk of them comes from Curacao and Aruba. Here is an overview of those players playing in AAA, AA, A Advanced and A Full Season. AAA Roger Bernadina is having a good season so far. At bat he…
Yesterday it became clear that the city of Kinston in North Carolina has signed a stadium lease deal with the Texas Rangers to bring a A Advanced team to historic Grainger Stadium, former home of the Kinston Indians. According to the lease, signed in July 2015, the Rangers had two years until the start of…
With the numbers that he put up with the Mississippi Braves at AA, it could not take long before Ozhaino Albies would get a promotion to AAA. Well, today this happened. Several posts on his Facebook page congratulated with his promotion to Gwinnett. Even though his player page at milb.com doesn’t show it yet, his name…
In the meantime this is very old news, but I haven’t read about it on other Dutch baseball websites, except an Aruban sports website where I bumped into the article. The Washington Nationals have released Randolph Oduber from Aruba, early April. The reason for his release wasn’t mentioned. During this year’s Spring Training, Randolph was…
A few months ago you could read an article about the Richmond Flying Squirrels and their quest for a new stadium in or near Richmond. Especially after the city had said the the club better started looking for a location outside the city’s boundaries. But in an article of the Richmond Times-Dispatch it was stated…
At the end of last season, Dutch pitcher, Loek van Mil returned to the USA as the Minnesota Twins signed the tall right hander to a contract and placed him at their AAA farm team. In three games his performance was promising as he posted a 0.00 ERA with one strike out and a hit….
Since their move from Denver in 1993, the New Orleans Zephyr always used the name of the club that moved from Denver, when the Rockies became the city’s MLB representative. The Zephyr was a train in the Colorado area and that name was adopted by the Denver Bears in 1985. Before the team moved to…
The other day Rob Manfred, Commissioner of Major League Baseball, held a press conference. Main issue was a possible expansion of Major League Baeball. Another issue was the stadium situation in Oakland and St. Petersburg. Manfred said that in the long term MLB will expand. He even hinted about a city as he said: “If we…
