The Montgomery Biscuits announced their Opening Day roster. Nine of the Rays top 30 prospects, this team is stuffed with talent this season. Where the team stranded in the first round of the play offs last year, this year’s team may get a step further in the 2016 campaign. The highest ranked prospect on the…
Last week the mayor of San Antonio hinted on some big news regarding minor league baseball in the city. Everyone speculated what it could be, but in fact, it could only mean one thing, even though some other constructions could have been possible. But yesterday the Elmore Sports Group announced that the Colorado Springs SkySox…
The High Desert Mavericks will play at Stater Bros Stadium in 2016. Early January, the city of Adelanto nullified the lease contract that both parties signed in 2012. According to the contract, the Mavs had to pay only one dollar rent per year. According to the city this was an abuse of public money, a…
Today, the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB) held a press conference in the clubhouse of new hoofdklasse club Oosterhout Twins (pronounce Oaster hout) about the upcoming season in the baseball hoofdklasse, Golden League softball, the upcoming European (nations) Cup in Hoofddorp, the upcoming ladies World Cup softball and the cooperation within the Dutch…
Yesterday I wrote about two players from Curacao that would start the season at the same level as last year. Well, this appears to be wrong. I was contacted by someone from Curacao who told me that he has spoken to both players and that both confirmed to be playing at AA instead of A…
Next to Ozhaino Albies, who was assigned to the same club that he played for last season, the Reds decided to let Calten Daal start another year in the A Advanced Florida State League with the Daytona Tortugas. After Calten received an invitation to MLB spring training as well, he had a total of twelve appearances with…
Despite his great performance during MLB Spring Training camp, the Braves have sent Ozhaino Albies to their A Full Season affiliate once agian. Albies spent the entire season with the Rome Braves where he played 98 games and collected 122hits at bats in 394 at bats (.310), 21 doubles and 8 triples. Ozhaino committed 17 errors…
In his second start of the 2016 NPB season, Rick van den Hurk had a very good outing. In the game vs the Nippon Ham Fighters (don’t make the mistake that I made: the club is named Fighters, not Ham Fighters. The owner of the club is the Nippon Ham company) Rick cruised through the…
By far not every minor league roster has been revealed but on several websites of minor league clubs you can see the name of players that has been placed their by the Major League parent club. Here is provisional overview. Not everything is clear yet, so updates will follow. Chadwick Tromp: The 21-year old Aruban catcher…
Despite the fact that the Yankees declared that the race for the fifth rotation spot would be an open one, Joe Giradi announced that C.C. Sabathia will fill the fifth spot. Open race? Really? Compare his numbers with those of Ivan Nova. At least the Red Sox have the guts, to bench a player with a…
