The New York Mets and Roger Bernadina have agreed on a minor league contract with an invitation for Spring Training. The Curacao native played several years for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals organization, debuting in the Bigs in 2008 and having his best season in 2012 when he hit .291 with five homeruns and eleven doubles. During…
After a lot of leagues that are defunct for a long time, now a piece of more recent history. The Cocoa Rookie League was a (like the name says) a rookie league that lasted for only one season in 1964. The league was situated in Cocoa and Melbourne in Florida and was one of the…
This is definately my favorite part of the off season. The part where teams come up with new uniforms and caps for the next season. Yesterday the Reading Fightin Phils, the AA affiliate of… yes the Phillies, unveiled their new uniforms for the 2016 season. The team came up with four new uniforms for the…
Reading Fighting Phils Yesterday the Reading Fighting Phils unveiled a logo that commemorates the 50 year affiliation with the Philadelphia Phillies. The gold and navy logo will be featured prominently during the 2016 season. The Fighting Phils became the Phillies AA affiliate in 1965. This affiliation is the second oldest after the one between the…
The KNBSB (the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) announced today in a press release that former MLB pitcher Calvin Maduro has been added to the coaching staff of the Dutch Kingdom team for the Premier 12 tournament. Maduro will serve as the team’s bullpen coach. The 41-year old Aruban native played at several minor league…
Over the past few seasons Roger Bernadina struggled at bat. After a career year with the Nationals in 2012, in which he batted .291 with a .372 OBP, 66 hits (of which eleven doubles and five homeruns). After that season his numbers went down, In 2013 he hit .178 with the Nationals before they released…
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…
Yesterday, the Dutch baseball and sofball federation (KNBSB) kicked off the new baseball season with a presentation of the Dutch national team. A few new faces could be recognized next to the similar ones. The plans for the future were also presented. The training program of the Dutch national team will be expanded from two…
Once again, several Dutchies showed their defensive capabilities. It shows once more that the Dutch have a shortstop overload. The Red Sox needed two games to beat, what many call “the Nursery home. The Bosox took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning and extended it with two runs in the top of the…
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…
