The Los Angeles Dodgers announced yesterday that Curacao native Kenley Jansen will be out for 8 – 12 weeks due to surgery on his left foot. Jansen felt discomfort to his foot while running and a couple of tests revealed a growth on the fifth metatarsal. According to the club there is a chance that…
Next to Jair Jurrjens and 22 others, Roger Bernadina received an invitation for the Rockies’ Spring Training Camp. In December last year, Bernadina signed a Minor League conract with the club from Denver. The Curacao born Bernadina played a total of 548 games at MLB level. His best season was in 2012 when he hit…
Even though the history of the Dodgers goes back to 1883 when the Brooklyn Grays were founded, the history of the illustreous Dodgers would start in the early 1900’s when Charlie Ebbets bought the team, then still playing at Washington Park. From 1905 Ebbets started to purchase pieces of land in Flatbush, then a slum…
Hiroki Kuroda, who turned down an offer from the Padres to return to his old club the Hiroshima Toyo Carp, has set some goals for himself. Kuroda returned to Japan after a seven year career in the Majors. Of those seven years he spent four in Los Angeles and three in New York. In six…
Yoan Moncada, the Cuban five tool player remains available after the Diamondbacks signed his namesake Lopez. The weird thing is that the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control has not cleared him yet. The reason for that is unclear and there is no time table set. Moncada reportedly is on the radar of the…
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….
Yoan Lopez was cleared by the United States government. The 21-year old Cuban defected in 2014 to chase his dream of signing a Major League contract. The right handed flame thrower masters a cut fastball, a changeup, a curveball and a slider, but he is best known for a fastball that has reached 100 mph…
In a blog that is (mainly) about Dutch baseball, there wasn’t much Dutch baseball news lateley. Finally there is something to mention here. Roger Bernadina during the 2013 World Baseball Classic The Colorado Rockies have signed Dutch/Netherlands Antillian player Roger Bernadina to a minor league contract, according to Baseball America. The club has not confirmed…
Gil Hodges, the manager that guided the Mets to their very first World Series title during their miracle run of 1969 (sorry Cubs fans), will mostly be remembered as the first baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers. With him the Dodgers won their only World Series as Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955. …
This is the translation of a weekly column that I write for the website of the Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB). In fact it is a summary of the play off games in which the players from the Kingdom of the Netherlands were/are playing. For the first time since 1997 the Orioles clinched a…
