Did anyone of you realize that the 2015 World Series between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals will be the first in the history of the Fall Classic in which expansion teams will face each other? There have been World Series in which expansion teams played (and even won) like the 1997 edition…
Perhaps you have heard that the Yankees have fired hitting coach Jeff Pentland. According to Pentland, he signed a one year deal and he stated that the Yankees told him that it would be for one year probably. Pentland acknowledges that the Yankees didn’t look too good at bat in the last month of the…
Another short episode of “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization. Not many Dutchies are playing in the following organization to put it mildly: Number of Dutchies: 1 Juan Carlos Sulbaran: Juan Carlos recently was promoted from the AA Nortwest Arkansas Naturals to the AAA Omaha StormChasers. Against the odds…
Curacaoan pitcher Juan Carlos Sulbaran was promoted to AAA Omaha, where he debuted last Friday with the StormChasers (Kansas City Royals organization). In a game vs the Round Rock Express (Texas Rangers organization) he lasted 6.2 innings before he was replaced. Juan Carlos cruised through the first six innings and only gave up one run…
The last couple of days the Yankees showed some uninspired baseball, sloppy defense and dormant bats. A couple of times they lost with big numbers.Especially at bat they looked like Pedro Cerrano from the movie Major League. Apparently they have given up on Jobu 😉 . All of a sudden they knew how to hit…
It was one of those nights. The pitching didn’t work and most of all, the bats stayed dormant again. Michael Pineda suffered his first defeat of the season. He was abandoned by his slider and was roughed up in 5.1 innings in which he allowed five runs on ten hits. Coming of a 16 K…
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 off season, the Minnesota Twins signed RHP Ervin Santana to a four year deal worth $55 million. What did they get in return as a reward? A pitcher that was caught using PED, Stanozolol to be exact. Stanozolol was the drug that Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson was ripped of his Olympic gold medal…
The Baltimore Orioles have signed Sharlon Schoop to a minor league contract. Sharlon is the older brother of Orioles’ infielder Jonathan Schoop. Sharlon played for the Bowie Baysox in the Eastern League (O’s AA affiliate) last season. In 77 games and 267 at bats he collected 58 (.217)hits of which thirteen doubles and three homeruns….
The last few weeks there have been rumours about the Yankees going after new coaches. Several names floated around. According to Jack Curry, the Yankees are close to appoint a hitting coach, an assistant hitting coach and an infield coach. Jack Curry is one of the most reliable journalist with ties in the Yankee organization….
