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This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Olympic baseball players of the Netherlands The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
The WBSC World Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in baseball, softball, and baseball5. The teams of the member nations of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), baseball's world governing body, are ranked based on their tournament results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with ...
Pages in category "Major League Baseball players from the Netherlands" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The following players made up the Dutch team for the 2011 Baseball World Cup, held in October 2011. [20] Team members are mostly from the Netherlands or overseas territories with a few non-Dutch players: Boyd is from Canada and has Dutch ancestry; Yntema is from the Dominican Republic and has Dutch citizenship
This is a list of baseball players from Netherlands Antilles (Aruba and Curaçao) who have played in Major League Baseball. Hensley Meulens was the first player from the Netherlands Antilles to make it into the Major Leagues. In Bold denotes still active players in the league.
The Netherlands National Baseball Team is consistently ranked in the top ten of the WBSC World Rankings and has won the European Baseball Championship twenty-four [2] times. Although baseball is a minority sport within the Netherlands proper, it is the main sport of the Dutch overseas territories in the Caribbean (the former Netherlands Antilles ).
The Honkbal Hoofdklasse (Dutch for Major League Baseball) is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league that plays a 42-game schedule and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB). Games are played principally on weekends. The season runs from April to September ...
The ranking for countries for most MLB players by birth matches well with the WBSC World Rankings, although East Asia and Australia underperforms in MLB and European nations have little to no representation, likely due to acquisition fees, travel to home soil, and/or professional baseball leagues in their home country with good revenue. [10] [11]