Curt Smith, first baseman of the Dutch National team became a free agent after the 2014 season. He had spent the season with the Cardinals’ AA affiliation in Springfield MO of the Texas League. Smith signed a deal with the independent Lincoln SaltDogs of the American Association. Smith played for the SaltDogs before. In 2011…
In a blog that is (mainly) about Dutch baseball, there wasn’t much Dutch baseball news lateley. Finally there is something to mention here. Roger Bernadina during the 2013 World Baseball Classic The Colorado Rockies have signed Dutch/Netherlands Antillian player Roger Bernadina to a minor league contract, according to Baseball America. The club has not confirmed…
When the Portland Beavers left Portland for Spokane at the end of the 1972 season, ex minor leaguer and tv actor Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell, jumped in with an independent team. This was not a coincidence. Russell starred for years in the TV series Bonanza, which was cancelled in 1972. The team joined…
The New York Yankees have put their search for a hitting coach on hold until the end of the holidays, according to Brian Cashman. Somehow the name of Jeff Pentland has popped up. Pentland has not been approached by the Yankees’ organization yet, but he is quite positive on joining the team: “It is a…
Today I bumped into an article about Peter Kirk, president of the independent Atlantic League. In an interview Kirk stated that he is interested in placing an Atlantic League team in Cuba. It is not that this idea comes all of a sudden due to the recent diplomatic developments between the USA and Cuba. Two…
In the last 24 hours there is a rumour floating around that the Yankees are weighing their options to acquire Troy Tulowitzki, shortstop of the Colorado Rockies. This story was brought by John Heyman of CBS. I really don’t know where he got this information from, but in the meantime at least one source from…
This morning I bumped into this article about the Yankees who would be ready to dump A-Rod in the first months of the season, pending on his performance. I don’t know if it is true. It appears highly speculative to me. But it made me think about what the Yankees should do with the hefty…
I one of my previous posts I wrote about the option of trading Martin Prado for pitching. Well it appears that Cashman has read my post. But the trade is not quite the way I expected it to be. The Yankees opted Martin Prado and pitcher David Phelps to Miami in exchange for Nathan Eovaldi,…
After the New York Giants won the World Series in the previous year, the Dodgers started the season hopeful as ever. How many World Series had they played without winning one? 1916 and 1920 as the Robins, 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953. In five of these World Series appearances, the hated Yankees were…
Now president Obama has re-established the diplomatic ties with Cuba, you can wonder what the effect on Cuban baseball will be. For decades, Cuban players were not allowed to play in the US, resulting in many players fleeing the country directly or during internationals tournaments abroad (like Aroldis Chapman did in 2009, when a Cuban…
