According to the Czech baseball website milujeme-baseball.cz, Aruban-born Eugene Helder will return to the multiple Czech champions. Helder joined the Dragons from Brno at the end of the regular season. He played a total of seven games in which he batted .333 with a .515 OBP and a .619 slugging percentage. During the playoffs, his…
In today’s episode of “Transactions in Belgian Baseball For the 2022 Season,” we pay attention to five-time Belgium champions Koninklijke (Royal) Mortsel Stars. The Mortsel Stars, still located at the Southern end of the Antwerp Airport, where they will stay for the 2022 season before moving to their new facility (later, more about that), saw…
In this episode of Ballparks Around The World, we pay attention to Jackie Robinson Stadium, home of the baseball team of the UCLA Bruins. The ballpark is located in West Los Angeles, adjacent to Interstate 405. Compared to the college ballparks shown in the previous weeks, the ballpark isn’t as super-duper but it is a…
According to the New York Post, and if they write about it it must be true 😉 , the New York Yankees cut the ties with the Staten Island Yankees (former low A affiliate) because of the temporary moniker the farm team used. Through the years since 2018, the SI Yankees adopted a temporary moniker…
After a week of absence, here is another episode to celebrate the upcoming weekend and the upcoming new year. Enjoy this episode with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang.
In today’s episode about “Transactions in Belgian Baseball For The 2022 Season,” we pay attention to perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2021 season, the Brussels Kangaroos. As you may know, the Kangaroos earned a spot in Division 1 as the highest league of Belgian Baseball BB1 was merged with the second tier league BB2….
In the fifth episode of “Transactions in Belgian Baseball For The 2022 Season,” we pay attention to the Deurne Spartans. Not many acquisitions (so far) but a surprising new head coach for sure. At the end of last season, three of the core players of Deurne Spartans decided to hang up their spikes: Morris De…
In the fourth episode about the transactions in Belgian Baseball for the upcoming season, we pay attention to the sole Wallonian club that reached the Gold Division (playoffs) in Division 1 in the past season: Mont-Saint-Guibert Phoenix BSC. For the 2022 season, Phoenix has not acquired new players yet. The core of the team is…
In this third episode of “Transactions in Belgian Baseball For the 2022 Season,” we pay attention to the players that joined and that left the Borgerhout Squirrels. For the first time in this series, we have a club, where no players will look for greener pastures in the Netherlands. But that doesn’t mean that there…
With the Belgian transaction period well behind us, it is time to have a look at the players that were acquired by and left the various Division 1 clubs in Belgium. Today, we pay attention to the runner-up in the 2021 Belgian championship: Brasschaat Braves. From yesterday’s post, we know already about second baseman Lino…
