We all know by now what MLB is planning for Minor League Baseball. 42 clubs will disappear. Most of them at rookie-level and A-Short Season level. This will also have its impact on the projected baseball complex on Curaçao. In 2015, there were plans by International Baseball Partners (IBP), MLB and the Curaçao government to…
International Baseball Partners (IBP) made its first announcement of 2017 by detailing a new academy league structure for the Dominican Republic that promises to set a new direction for the baseball island. IBP Managing Director, Michael Powers said the initiative includes the structure of cooperating baseball academies in the Dominican Republic to create an “Inter-Academy…
Finally there is some news to announce about the baseball facility that is/was about to be build to house a new summer league on Curacao. Recently International Baseball Partners announced that the company will put the Curacao Project 421 on hold until after the September 30 elections. The company announced this on their website. “We remain…
Yesterday, it was announced in the podcast “The Show before the Show”, that the Venezuelan Summer League is no more. After 19 years the league shuts down due to several reasons. The league has been plagued by many teams pulling back due to the turmoil that the country faces. Many teams feared for the safety…
In the Wall Street Journal there is an interesting article about the deteriorating Venezuelan Summer League. Where the Houston Astros made the first step of what would become the Venezuelan Summer League, the league had more than twenty MLB clubs with an affiliation in the late 1990s. After the Seattle Mariners left their facility near…
The local government of Curacao has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) together with International Baseball Partners LLC. This MoU is nothing more than a document in which both parties delcare their intent of building a baseball facility at the island of Curacao. Due to this MoU, both parties have put together an official business…
My blog post about the new baseball complex on Curacao has gotten many hits the last couple of days. It has been shared on Facebook over a thousand times. Even the Prime Minister of the island, Ivar Asjes, shared it. Now even the local newspaper Antilliaans dagblad is mentioning the new project, referring to this…
The American corporation IBP LLC (which stands for International Baseball Partners) has announced a plan to build a brand new baseball complex on the island of Curaçao. IBP is chartered in the United States with designs to build, own, lease and manage multiple professional baseball complexes around the world. The website of the Limited Liability…
