A surprising move in Italian baseball. Five days ago, Hotsand Macerata announced it has signed former Dutch National team player and former Dutch hoofdklasse player Dudley Leonora for the 2024 season. On their Facebook page, the Macerata Angels posted the following announcement: “We welcome another great player to join Hotsand Macerata this year. Dudley Leonora,…
About a year ago, the Lexington Legends changed their name into Lexington CounterClocks. But the new ownership of the club decided to return to the previous moniker. The Lexington Legends were one of the 40 clubs that were kicked out of affiliated minor league baseball in a move that saves the greedy MLB owners about…
On March 6 and 7, a selection of European baseball players will take on team Samurai Japan in Osaka. Today, the roster of the European team was announced. The European team will contain players from Spain (eight players), Germany (three players), Czech Republic (four players), Italy (six), and the Netherlands (seven). The roster will look…
In the blog post about the transactions of the Merchtem Cats for the 2024 season, it was mentioned that two import players would be added to their roster. The Dutch Baseball Hangout was informed about the two additions today. The two import players are Isaac Blake and Zane Gilpin. Both were found on baseballjobsoverseas. Isaac…
After a season with the Bonn Capitals, Curaçao-born Phildrick Llewellyn has signed with the München-Haar Disciples, from the South Division of the 1. German Bundesliga. After being part of the Untouchables Paderborn for many years, that club didn’t extend his contract in 2023. As a result, Phildrick Llewellyn moved to the Bonn Capitals. With the…
On December 15, 2023, the transaction period in Belgian baseball ended. We have reached the final chapter of the Division One teams. Today we pay attention to the Merchtem Cats. Six players will not return to the Merchtem Cats as players. Tom Beeckmans will head to Brasschaat Braves. Domantas Trinkunas will join Borgerhout Squirrels, Jayde…
In this episode of “Baseball Related Songs” we pay attention to “Baseball Theme” performed by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. This piece of music is purely instrumental and was part of the cartoon movie “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.” Vince Guaraldi was born in 1928 in San Francisco. He was a composer and played piano and…
On December 15, 2023, the transaction period in Belgian baseball ended. Time to pay attention to the transactions of the various Division 1 clubs. Today we pay attention to the Namur Angels. The Namur Angels ended the 2023 season in fifth place. According to Ronny Heymans the Angels didn’t make itself heard on the transfer…
On December 15, 2023, the transaction period in Belgium ended. Time to sum up the new players and leaving players for each Division 1 team. We continue with last year’s number 6 in the final standings: Phoenix Mont-Saint-Guibert. Phoenix MSG lost quite some players, but got quite a bit in return as well. To quote…
With sixteen players leaving the club, according to the transaction overview, provided by the KBBSF, one knew something was going on with the former Mortsel Stars. No team can overcome an exodus like this. After being made aware of this list, yours truly contacted the chairman of the club. All he wanted to say was…
