Curacao infielder Gianfranco Wawoe has been added to the spring training roster of the Seattle Mariners. But even though the M’s fielded split squad teams, Gianfranco did not make his seasonal debut. Yesterday, the Seattle Mariners announced on their transaction page that Gianfranco was assigned to the team. It isn’t the first time that Gianfranco…
In the meantime this is very old news, but I haven’t read about it on other Dutch baseball websites, except an Aruban sports website where I bumped into the article. The Washington Nationals have released Randolph Oduber from Aruba, early April. The reason for his release wasn’t mentioned. During this year’s Spring Training, Randolph was…
Next to Ozhaino Albies, who was assigned to the same club that he played for last season, the Reds decided to let Calten Daal start another year in the A Advanced Florida State League with the Daytona Tortugas. After Calten received an invitation to MLB spring training as well, he had a total of twelve appearances with…
Now the Premier 12 tournament is over, it is time for a review. What was a success and what went wrong? In sporting terms, the tournament was a success, despite the lack of (current) MLB players. Especially the fact that Korea blocked the way to the final for Japan was a major surprise. And the…
After the final out of today’s final of the Premier 12 tournament, the All World team was selected. Two players of the Kingdom of the Netherlands were selected. Carlton Daal, the young shortstop of the Cincinnati Reds organization, was chosen as the best shortstop of the tournament. The organisation of the tournament looked at the…
In the championship game Korea took on the USA. With solid pitching and defense the Korean kept the Americans in check. The Koreans took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning and extended their lead with another run in the top of the third. Keun-Woo Jeong led off the first with a…
In the second semi-final, the USA took on Mexico. It was a miracle itself that Mexico got this far. The Mexican baseball federation had a feud with the several Mexican winter leagues, who did not want to lend their players. For a long time it looked like that Panama would take the place of the…
In the Premier 12 first semi-final an unexpected score could be seen on the scoreboards. The huge favorite team Samurai Japan had a hard time against the final Olympic champion Korea. For three innings both teams did not score but in the fourth, Japan stepped on it and scored three times. Sho Nakata drew a…
Today the board members of the KNBSB and the staff of team Kingdom of the Netherlands held a press conference about the creation of the team that will represent the Netherlands and the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, St. Eustasius and St. Martin in the upcoming Premier 12 tournament. Host of the event was…
Today, the KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) announced the final 28 players who will represent the Kingdom of the Netherlands with the Premier 12 tournament in Novermber. The big names on the roster are Andruw Jones, Wladimir Balentien and Jair Jurrjens. These three had a rather extensive career in the Majors or at…
