Today in “Summing up the Dutchies per MLB organization: Number of Dutchies: 3 Matz Schütte: Matz signed a contract with the Minnesota Twins in September 2014. The tall pitcher who was born in Almere, came to Dutch Hoofdklasse club HCAW through his home town Almere ’90 and baseball academy Scimitars….
Something that is rather normal nowadays in the Netherlands and the most of Europe, but apparently someone being gay is still hard to accept for many Americans. Yesterday, David Denson, a first baseman and one of the top prospects in the Brewers’ farm system made it public that he is gay. This happened in an interview with…
Curacao native Ozhaino Albies has received an invitation for the Futures Game, the yearly event that precedes the All Star Game and features the most talented players from the Minor Leagues. It is the first time that a player from Curacao receives an invitation for the Futures Game since Jurickson Profar played in the game….
The Baltimore Orioles have drafted Kirvin Moesquit from Curacao. The twenty-year old player was picked up by the O’s in the twenty-fourth round. Kirvin can play shortstop and is also capable to play in the outfield. Last year he played for the Seminole State College for which he batted .368 with three homeruns, twenty-nine runs…
First of all I’d like to wish you all a happy Easter. Today a rather short report because hardly any Dutchies saw action yesterday. Yesterday, the very last Spring Training games were played. Today the season will officially start in Chicago, where the arch rivals Cardinals and Cubs will face each other in a Wrigley…
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…
Yesterday’s game between the Rays and the Yankees looked like an April Fools joke. The story line was the Yankees’ ineptness to hit. In nine innings, the Yankees collected the whopping total of four basehits; only Brett Gardner, Carlos Beltran, Ramon Flores and Mark Teixeira got a hit. The pitching didn’t really do a bad…
No Yankees yesterday, so only a report about the Dutchies in yesterday’s ST games. The Atlanta Braves stayed at the right side of the 4-2 score vs the Detroit Tigers. Andrelton Simmons got one basehit out of three at bats. Andrelton made an inning ending 6-4 force out when Victor Martinez grounded towards him in…
The Braves were no match for the Yankees last night. Mike Foltynewicz got through two innings without problems but could not get out of the third inning. He gave up a bloop broken bat single to Didi Gregorius in the third before he retired Jose Pirela and Brett Gardner on strike outs. Chase Headley broke…
Loek van Mil will join the ranks Curaçao Neptunus from Rotterdam. The tall pitcher from Oss in the Netherlands signed a deal with the Rakuten Golden Eagles last year but spent most of the season at Ni-Gun level (the Japanese Minor League). He was called up at the end of the season and pitched in…
