The Rocket City Trash Pandas have unveiled their uniforms for the 2020 season. The team is currently still playing under the Mobile BayBears moniker but will move to the Huntsville area after the 2019 season. The unveiling of the Trash Pandas branding happens in stages. In September 2018, the name of the club was announced…
In this episode of Dutchies around the World, we pay attention to Jonathan Schoop, Darren Seferina, Kevin Josephina, Gianfranco Wawoe and Phildrick Llewellyn. MLB It is not clear if he is influenced by the poor performance of the Baltimore Orioles, who currently own the worst record in all of MLB, but Jonathan Schoop is struggling at…
Curaçao native Darren Seferina was released by the St. Louis Cardinals last Saturday. But the infielder found a new club in no time. Yesterday, the Milwaukee Brewers picked him up and sent him to AA Biloxi Shuckers of the Southern League. After a successful season with the Springfield Cardinals, in which he hit .277, the…
The acquisition of the Mobile BayBears by an Arizona based investment group has been approved by Minor League Baseball. Next to this news comes the confirmation that the city of Madison, AL is interested in attracting an affiliated minor league team. The Arizona-based BallCorps, LLC has been working to complete a purchase of the BayBears, with the…
The Biloxi Shuckers (Southern League), the AA affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers will wear a special jersey on April 22. The jersey was designed by Ocean Springs-based tattoo artist Matt Stebly. The jersey was unveiled earlier today. The design of the jersey features a pelican, the Biloxi Lighthouse and a redfish. The jersey will be…
According to the Dutch news website nu.nl, manager of team Kingdom of the Netherlands, Hensley Meulens, will give the nod to pitcher Rick van den Hurk to start the semi-final game vs Puerto Rico . The 31-year old already had two starts in the 2017 World Baseball Classic. The first start of Van den Hurk…
After two years of baseball in Biloxi, the good relationship between the city and the Biloxi Shuckers seems to be over. In June 2015, MGM Park, home of the Shuckers opened with a delay of half a season due to contstructional delays (where have we heard that before?). But the club could move into their new…
The Lynchburg HillCats, A Advanced team (Carolina League) of the Cleveland Indians, have adopted a new logo and a new color scheme. They said farewell to the forest green and the cartoonesque logo and replaced it with a more modern look. In all logos there is a combination of navy and two shades of green….
It is not even the time of the year for news like this, but the PDC extensions keep coming. The Milwaukee Brewers and their AA farm team the Biloxi Shuckers have extended their player development contract. The current contract will expire after the 2016 season. Both teams agreed on continue cooperating through the 2020 sesason….
Through the decades minor league clubs have been moving from one town to another. But it appears to me that teams are (still) moving rather easily when other towns try to lure them with public funded stadiums. Often other public funded stadiums are left behind and so is the community. Sometimes independent leagues jump in to fill…
