The Baltimore Orioles have signed Sharlon Schoop to a minor league contract. Sharlon is the older brother of Orioles’ infielder Jonathan Schoop. Sharlon played for the Bowie Baysox in the Eastern League (O’s AA affiliate) last season. In 77 games and 267 at bats he collected 58 (.217)hits of which thirteen doubles and three homeruns….
Curacao native Jair Jurrjens who signed a Minor League deal with the Colorado Rockies in November, has received an invitation to the Rockies Spring Training Camp in Arizona. After a long absence he had a rocky start (sorry for the pun) with the Rockies. In two starts he went 0-1 with a 10.61 ERA. After…
Unless you have been living underneath a rock the past 24 hours, you must have heard or read that Earnie Banks has passed away at the age of 83 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Earnie Banks carried the nickname Mr. Cub, for he spent all of his career with the Cubs. Not a rare…
The Seattle Mariners have unveiled their new alternate Sunday uniform. The lettering and logo (on the sleeve) are the same than those at their home jersey. But the new uniform has the same colouring as the Mariners had in the seventies and eighties. The Mariners say that the past meets the present. If you see…
The Miami Marlins signed Ichiro Suzuki to a one-year deal worth around $2 million. Buster Olney expects that no kind of option will be added. Ichiro, 41 years old, will be the Marlins’ fourth outfielder. In that role he will probably not reach 3,000 hits this season, since the Marlins outfield is containing three young…
The Seattle Mariners are in the center of the attention this week. Not with things that have to do with baseball directly though. On Tuesday they announced that they will replace the common light bulbs that light the playing surface with LED lights. LED lights are more durable than regular light bulbs (a longevity of…
It was a day where two baseball clubs showed their new team colours. First of all, the Nashville Sounds of the AAA Pacific Coast League. They will move into a new ballpark at the start of this season, which is an excellent reason to rebrand. They had already shown their new logo, but at that…
A few months ago I wrote about a small club in the Netherlands that was forced to dissolve because the town it was situated tore down it’s ball field. Today I read a tweet from the Dutch hoofdklasse club AdoLakers from The Hague, about an upcoming special members meeting. The tweet said the following: Invitation…
Sometimes I wonder if the Montreal Expos still would have been the Montreal Expos if they had kept all the great players that they produced and had on their roster. Especially in the 90s they had a lot of good players on their roster that had great careers elsewhere later. But in general the Expos…
Early January I wrote an article on the subject already, but during the presentation of the schedule and logo of the premier twelve tournament, it was confirmed that a friendly match will be played between the best Japanese players and a selection of European (professional) players. The team will mainly contain Dutch and Italian players…
