The Milwaukee Brewers have signed a two year player development contract that will link both clubs to each other through the 2018 season. The Brewers were one of two MLB clubs that still had not signed a PDC with an A Advanced club. Their former A Advanced affiliate, the Brevard County Manatees moved to central…
Just when I finished my previous blogpost about the extension of the PDC between the Giants and the GreenJackets, the next announcement comes in. The Colorado Springs SkySox (AAA, Pacific Coast League) and the Milwaukee Brewers have extended their player development contract with two years. The contract will run through the 2018 season. Since 2015,…
The Texas Rangers and the Spokane Indians (A Short Season, Northwest League) have extended their player development contract with two more years through the 2018 season. The cooperation between the two clubs started in 2003. Since the two clubs became partners the Indians have won three Northwest League titles. One in the inaugural year of…
Great news for fans from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Aruban Catcher Shawn Zarraga has been called up by the Los Angeles Dodgers. Last night he was spotted in the dugout of the Dodgers during the game vs arch rival San Francisco. Shawn played a big chunck of last season for the Oklahoma City Dodgers,…
And now for something completely different. This time no news about players from the Netherlands, Curacao or Aruba, nor about the Minor Leagues or the Yankees. With the World Baseball Classic Qualifier 4 (in Brooklyn NY) getting near rapidly, the Twitter account of the WBC (retweet) and the website of UK Baseball announced that former…
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….
In the mean time this is old news, but nowhere in the Dutch press there was given any attention to this feat so far. Long time Brewers farmhand Hainley Statia has been added to the coaching staff of one of the Brewers’ minor league teams; in this case the Arizona Brewers. Hainley will become one…
With Spring Training at full swing now, it is time to see how the players from the Kingdom of the Netherlands will do in the upcoming season. Of course there is no crystal ball and it is still up in the air, but in general you can make a decent prediction based on the performance of…
The Dixie Association was a cooperation between the Southern League and the Texas League in 1971. As both leagues lost a team after the 1970 season, both leagues were left with an uneven number of teams. To overcome this problem the leagues decided to join forces and to have an interlocking schedule. The problems arose…
The Amarillo Globe-News discovered an email that suggests that the Colorado Springs SkySox may move to San Antonio. At least that is what the newspaper says. The newspaper quoted the email, written by Amarillo councilman Randy Burkett: “He is working now with the San Antonio team owner to relocate their AAA team to San Antonio and also…
