The New York Yankees traded for Michael Pineda in January 2012 in exchanged for top prospect Jesus Montero and Hector Noesi. As Pineda got injured rather quick, many Yankee fans started to complain about the bad deal. It took Pineda a long time before he was back on the MLB roster. In 2014 he won…
The Binghamton Mets will have a new name in 2017. The team’s owner, Evans Street Baseball, announced in a press release that the fans can give the team a new name in a name-the-team-contest on the website www.bmets.com. The team is looking for a new name that makes Binghamton different than any other city.A name…
As many know Iowa baseball from the movie Field of Dreams (“Is this heaven?” “No, this is Iowa.”), Iowa has quite a history when it comes to (minor league) baseball. After early baseball was played in Iowa in short-lived leagues like the Nortwestern League (1879), the Central Inter-State League (1888) and the Illinois-Iowa League (1890),…
The Eastern Interstate League was founded as the Middle States League in 1889. Most of the Middle States League teams did not make it until the end of the season. While teams folded, new teams entered the league from other folding leagues, but most of them folded prematurely. Only three teams made it to the end of…
For years the Cuban government outlawed baseball players that left the country for the greener baseball pastures in the USA, called MLB. These players were not allowed to represent Cuba any longer in any international tournament. The result was a Cuban team that deteriorated and that dropped to fifth place in the newly published WBSC…
After his successful debut with the Uni President 7-Eleven Lions, Curacao native Jair Jurrjens was hit hard in his second start today. In the game vs the Lamigo Monkeys he lasted only four innings in which he struggled mightily as he walked three, fanned three, gave up nine hits (one homerun) and allowed eight runs…
Contrary to what I wrote a few weeks ago about Rick van den Hurk getting the third spot in the rotation of the Hawks, Rick started the second game of the Hawks in the young season. Rick could not duplicate his first start of last year in the NPB as he got a no dicision…
Today it was made public, but during the winter meetings, clubs were already told that bat decals will be banned by MLB. These decals are put on the knob of the bat by players to give it a personal touch. There has been a lot going on lately about young players expressing themselves and the…
The High Desert Mavericks, A Advanced affiliate of the Texas Rangers in the California League, reveiled their new jerseys for the 2016 season. Even when the home field situation of the team is still unclear, the prepartions for the upcoming season are in full swing. The team will sport two home jerseys and two road…
When the Arizona Diamondbacks signed a deal with the Maricopa County Board about their new stadium, part of the deal was that the county would upgrade and maintain the BOB or Chase Field as it is called now, in a regular fashion. I guess you can guess what has happened. Maricopa County has not upgraded…
