Yesterday the rosters of the Dutch All Star game were announced. There is a slight change regarding to previous years with the forming of the teams. In the previous years you had a North team and a South team. North mainly cointaining players form L&D Amsterdam Pirates, Corendon Kinheim, Vaessen Pioniers and HCAW. The South…
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…
My appologies for the delay, but internet was down yesterday, so I couldn’t post. Yesterday’s game between Pronto DSS and HCAW was rained out on Sunday and on Monday. It was one of those close games in which runs didn’t come cheap. HCAW took a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Max Clarijs singled, Emersson…
Today in “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization: Number of Dutchies: 3 Matz Schütte: Matz signed a contract with the Minnesota Twins in September 2014. The tall pitcher who was born in Almere, came to Dutch Hoofdklasse club HCAW through his home town Almere ’90 and baseball academy Scimitars….
Kenny van den Branden is a right handed pitcher from Belgium, who is playing in the Dutch Hoofdklasse for the Rotterdam based Curacao Neptunus. Kenny is also playing for the national team of Belgium. Kenny played for the Borgerhout Squirrels (current Belgian champion) and for his hometown Hoboken Pioneers (Belgian champs in 2009, 2010, 2011…
Another shorty in the series “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization”. This time I will write about: Number of Dutchies: 1 Milan Post: Dutch born Milan Post signed a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers in January 2014. Born in Diemen a community Southeast of Amsterdam, he played at…
After three starts, I’d like to take a look at Luis Severino. The Yankee prospect was called up early August and debuted with the Yankees on August 5. Through the years the Yankees had several prospects that were hyped in the media and who did not live up the expectations: Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain…
On day three of the first round of the runner up competition, two games were scheduled, but the game between HCAW and Pronto DSS was cancelled and will be played tomorrow night at 7.30 PM (19.30). So the only game that was played today was: UVV @ Mampaey the Hawks 8 – 0 With two…
On the third day of round one of the Dutch Play Offs, the following games were scheduled: Curacao Neptunus @ Corendon Kinheim and L&D Amsterdam Pirates @ Vaessen Pioniers. Curacao Neptunus @ Corendon Kinheim 19 – 0 After losing the previous two games vs Corendon Kinheim, Curacao Neptunus was in a must win situation today….
Something that is rather normal nowadays in the Netherlands and the most of Europe, but apparently someone being gay is still hard to accept for many Americans. Yesterday, David Denson, a first baseman and one of the top prospects in the Brewers’ farm system made it public that he is gay. This happened in an interview with…
