The El Paso Chihuhuas, AAA team of the San Diego Padres in the Pacific Coast League, have announced that Pat Murphy will return as their manager in 2015. Murphy has a very long resume in the baseball world. From 1988 through 1994 he managed the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In that period the team had…
DSS, the baseball club from Haarlem that recently earned a promotion to the hoofdklasse, has acquired lefthanded pitcher Tsuyoshi Iwamoto. This 29-year old pitcher has pitched at several levels in the USA, Australia and Japan. In 2011 he pitched a season for a local minor league team in Australia, the Cronulla Sharks. In 2012 he…
Despite having acquired Mariekson “Didi” Gregorius in a trade with the Diamondbacks to play shortstop, the Yankees are nearing a $5 million one year deal with Stephen Drew. The 31-year (32 in March) old shortstop has played a part of the 2014 season with the Yankees after the Yankees acquired him in a trade that…
vs According to the Japanese newspaper 5Newspaper the Japanese All Star team that took on an MLB All Star team in November, the Samurai Japan, is planning to play a friendly game vs a European All Star Team in March. Kumazaki Katsuhiko, the commissioner of the NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) said this according to…
In the very first trade of 2015 the Yankees sent lefthander Manny Banuelos in exchange for David Carpenter and Chasen Shreve. Banuelos once was regarded one of the Yankees’ main prospects but he never lived up to the expectations. He never got a shot in the Majors. The highest level that he reached was AAA…
For me, as a Yankee fan, 1996 was a great year. Not only because of the birth of my oldest daughter, but also because the Yankees won their first World Series since 1978. Back then I wasn’t even aware of baseball in America. That notion would only come in 1981. There was only one tiny…
I am a baseball fan and Yankee fan since 1981. It took me five more years to attend my first baseball game though. From that moment on I am addicted to the best game in the world. In 1995 I attended my first MLB game. I went to a game at Dodger Stadium between the…
And now for something completely different. 😉 I am an authentic ball cap collector. I have a couple of caps that are more than twenty years old. As a result some of them look quite worn down with crinkles and dents. Instead of buying new ones, I decided to try to patch them up again….
According to Twitter and several Yankee blogs, the New York Yankees have sent 30-year old reliever Shawn Kelly to San Diego in exchange for relief prospect Johnny Barbato. My first thoughts were “who?” and “why?” When I googled on Johnny Barbato, I found his stats on baseball-reference.com. Last season Barabato pitched at the AA San…
From June 1st through June 7th 2015, the European Cup will be played in Paris and Rotterdam. The following teams will play in Paris at the home field of PUC (Paris Université Club): L&D Amsterdam Pirates (Netherlands) PUC Paris (France) T&A San Marino (San Marino) Morth Stars Moscow (Russia) Solingen Alligators (Germany) Fortitudo Bologna (Italy)…
