Last night, the Yankees rebounded from their flat performance on the previous night. In that game the team looked rather uninspired as they fell 5-3 to the Houston Astros. Last night the outcome was way better as the Yankees beat the Astros 16-6. A slugfest showed exactly the opposite of what the Yanks showed on Tuesday….
You may know by now that I am a jersey and cap nut. In previous top tens, I posted my favorite MLB, MiLB and retro caps. This time I’d like to show you my top ten of MLB jerseys. It will be a mix of current jerseys and retro jerseys. 10. Houston Astros 1975-1986 jersey…
In the Wild Card game that was played last night, the Yankees were on the leash of Dallas Keuchel. The ace of the Astros limited the Yankees to three hits. The Yankees went 0 for 2 with runners in scoring positon and that says it all. Of course as a fan you have some hope…
I have been mulling all afternoon if I should write something about Yogi Berra’s passing. A bit cheap to write about it as all other baseball websites wrote about it already. But on the other hand, as a Yankee fan I should spend some words on it. Berra signed with the Yankees in 1943 while serving…
In “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization, a short one again. This time I will pay attention to: Number of Dutchies: 1 Jacques Sambo: Jacques is another player from the talent pool called Curacao. The 17-year old right handed pitcher signed a contract with the Astros in May…
Yesterday Masahiro Tanaka lasted five innings in which he gave up six runs on seven hits. Thanks to some pretty good run support he didn’t take the loss but got a no-decision. The previous outing vs the Tigers wasn’t much better. He allowed five runs on ten hits in five innings of work. In the…
This is some serious stuff. The FBI is investigating officials of the St. Louis Cardinals who hacked the computer system of the Astros. In this system they tried to enter a special database with player information, internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports. The Feds are keeping their mouth shut about with Cardinals officials are…
After a month and a half, it catches my eye that things are slowly getting back to normal in Major League Baseball. Back to normal? Yes back to normal. What I mean to say is that the teams with a flying start are slowly cooling off and geting more down to earth again. So far…
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…
Jacques Sambo, a talented RHP pitcher from Curacao is the next talened kid from Curacao that has been signed by a Major League club. The 16-year old kid signed a contract with the Houston Astros. Sambo, born on July 27 1998 has played little league on the Referina ISLA team from Curacao. It remains to…
