According to Chunichi Sports, the Yomiuri Giants are also interested in Dutch pitcher Rick van den Hurk. The 196 cm (6 ft 5) tall Van den Hurk is currently pitching for the Samsun Lions of the KBO (Korean Professional Baseball League). This season, Van den Hurk won thirteen games and lost four. He leads the…
Today the World Cup for players under the age of 21 has started in Taiwan. To be honest I don’t know how strong each team is. One of the games that I could predict a winner was the game between Italy and New Zealand. The Italians beat the Kiwis 7-2. After two innings, Nicaragua had…
After the previous article on the PDC extension between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New Hampshire FisherCats there is more to tell about PDC extensions. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (gawd I hate that name), have extended the Player Development Contract with the Salt Lake Bees through 2018. The teams have been in…
More news about Minor League affiliations. This time not a change but an extension of a Player Development Contract. The Toronto Blue Jays have extended their PDC with the New Hampshire FisherCats through the 2018 season. Both teams are linked to each other for 15 straight years now. The relationship between the two started in…
Now the Dutch baseball season, the MiLB season and MLB season are over, I slowly start to realize that it is time for baseball hibernation. But the problem is that I don’t want to hibernate. I try to postpone that moment as long as possible. What can you do to get through the off season…
Like said before until 1963 baseball was dominated by teams from Amsterdam and Haarlem. But in 1963 out of nowhere Sparta from Rotterdam became Dutch champion. From 1963 to 1974 the club clinched nine national titles, a record only to be improved in 1985 by Haarlem Nicols and later by DOOR Neptunus from Rotterdam. Haarlem…
A Korean website has mentioned that the new NPB champions Softbank Hawks have shown interest in Dutch pitcher Rick van den Hurk. Currently Van den Hurk is pitching for the Samsung Lions of the KBO. One of my contacts on Twitter confirmed that he had signed a contract but no Japanese baseball site, even not…
A week ago I wrote about an article on the website of ESPN. It claimed that the 2014 World Series would be the worst ever. So now the World Series are over, can we conclude that these were the worst World Series ever? Not as far as I am concerned. In the meantime I have…
vs Yesterday I wrote that this years’ World Series end in a way how every World Series should end: With a game seven. I can say that every game seven should be like this years’ game seven. Once again it was a nailbiter. Jeremy Guthrie started very well by retiring the first three batters…
vs This year’s World Series will end in the way that every World Series should end: With a seventh game. In a must win situation, trailing 3-2 in games, the Kansas City Royals kept their cool and flexed their muscles in game six as they out hit and out scored San Francisco. Yordano Ventura…
