Netherlands national baseball team

Netherlands
Federation	Koninklijke Nederlanse Baseball en Softball Bond

The Netherlands national baseball team is a national team of Netherlands and is controlled by the Koninklijke Nederlanse Baseball en Softball Bond. It represents the nation in senior-level men's international competition. The team is a member of the CEB. The Dutch national team has won over two-thirds of the European Championships they have competed in. The people who have played for the Dutch national team in the most games have been Raily Legito, Dirk van 't Klooster, Marcel Joost and Johnny Balentina.

Among the bigger Dutch upsets have been wins over Cuba in the 2000 Olympics and 2007 Baseball World Cup and the Dominican Republic twice in a row in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. They beat the USA and Cuba twice during the 2011 Baseball World Cup to win the event, the first team other than the US to finish ahead of Cuba in the event since 1951 (South Korea and Colombia had won in years in which Cuba did not appear). They beat both defending runner-up South Korea and Cuba (twice) in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

A number of players on the team come not from the European mainland but from the islands of Aruba and Curaçao in the Caribbean, which have both become baseball hotbeds in the 21st century.

Members of the national team who also played in Major League Baseball

(first and most recent events listed; for instance, Wladimir Balentien played in the 2004 Olympics and 2013 World Baseball Classic, but no events in between, whereas Eugene Kingsale played in almost every event from 2003-2010)

• Wladimir Balentien (2004 Olympics through 2017 World Baseball Classic)
• Roger Bernadina (2007 European Championship through 2021 Final Olympic Qualifier)
• Xander Bogaerts (2011 Baseball World Cup through 2017 World Baseball Classic
• Ivanon Coffie (2003 Baseball World Cup through 2007 Baseball World Cup)
• Yurendell de Caster (2003 European Championship through 2021 Final Olympic Qualifier)
• Radhames Dykhoff (2000 Olympics through 2001 Baseball World Cup (maybe others)
• Robert Eenhoorn (1987 European Championship through 2000 Olympics)
• Rikkert Faneyte (1987 European Championship through 2000 Olympics)
• Didi Gregorius (2009 Baseball World Cup through 2017 World Baseball Classic)
• Greg Halman (2007 European Championship through 2009 World Baseball Classic)
• Kenley Jansen (2009 World Baseball Classic through 2017 World Baseball Classic)
• Jair Jurrjens (2006 World Baseball Classic through 2021 Final Olympic Qualifier)
• Andruw Jones (2006 World Baseball Classic through 2015 Premier 12)
• Eugène Kingsale (2003 Baseball World Cup through 2010 Intercontinental Cup)
• Calvin Maduro (2003 Baseball World Cup through 2006 World Baseball Classic)
• Shairon Martis (2006 World Baseball Classic through 2021 European Championship)
• Hensley Meulens (2000 Olympics through 2002 Intercontinental Cup)
• Ralph Milliard (1999 Intercontinental Cup through 2004 Olympics)
• Sidney Ponson (2009 World Baseball Classic)
• Jurickson Profar (2013 World Baseball Classic through 2017 World Baseball Classic)
• Win Remmerswaal (1973 European Championship)
• Jonathan Schoop (2011 Baseball World Cup through 2017 World Baseball Classic)
• Randall Simon (2006 World Baseball Classic through 2009 Baseball World Cup)
• Andrelton Simmons (2013 World Baseball Classic through 2017 World Baseball Classic)
• Chadwick Tromp (2016 European Championship through 2019 Premier 12
• Rick Vanden Hurk (2009 World Baseball Classic through 2017 World Baseball Classic)

Partial list of managers

• 1956-1958 Henk Keulemans
• 1959 Martin Jole
• 1960 Ed Zukiwsky
• 1960-1962 Ron Fraser
• 1963 Bill Arce
• 1964 Archie Allen
• 1965 Glenn Gostick
• 1966 Howard Fetz
• 1967 Hal Smeltzly
• 1968 Bill Allhouse
• 1969-1970 Charles Urbanus Sr.
• 1971 Smeltzly, Arce
• 1972-1973 Fraser
• 1974-1978 Ernie Myers
• 1981-1984 Jim Stoeckel
• 1984-1986 Harvey Shapiro
• 1987 Pat Murphy
• 1988 Tom Petroff
• 1989-1991 Stoeckel
• 1992-2000 Jan-Dick Leurs
• 2000 Murphy
• 2001-2008 Robert Eenhoorn; Davey Johnson interim for part of 2003
• 2009 Rod Delmonico
• 2010 Stoeckel
• 2011-2012 Brian Farley
• 2013 Hensley Meulens
• 2014 Steve Janssen
• 2015 Meulens
• 2016 Janssen
• 2017 Meulens
• 2018-2019 Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier Evert-Jan 't Hoen
• 2019 Premier 12-2020 Final Olympic Qualifier Meulens
• 2021 European Championship 't Hoen

Pitching Coaches

• Until 1975 No pitching coach
• 1975-1978 Leen Volkerijk
• 1979-1980 Jan-Dick Leurs
• 1981-1983 No pitching coach
• 1984 Jan-Dick Leurs
• 1985-1988 Leen Volkerijk
• 1989-1991 No official pitching coach; Charles Urbanus Jr. unofficial
• 1992-1997 No official pitching coach; manager Jan-Dick Leurs handled those duties
• 1998-1999 Jim Hovorka
• 1999-2000 Bernie Beckman
• 2001-2002 Brian Farley
• 2002-2005 Steve Janssen
• 2005 Brian Farley
• 2006 World Baseball Classic Bob Welch
• 2006-2008 Brian Farley
• 2009 World Baseball Classic Bert Blyleven
• 2009 Baseball World Cup Jim Stoeckel
• 2010-2012 Steve Janssen
• 2013 Bert Blyleven
• 2015-2016 Mike Hartley
• 2017 Blyleven and Janssen co-coaches
• 2018 ?
• 2019-2021 Robin van Doornspeek

No-hitters

• 1949 - Han Urbanus vs. Belgium
• 1951 - Han Urbanus
• 1964 European Championship - Rob Hoffmann, Herman Beidschat - perfect game vs. Spain
• 1983 European Championship - Jan Hijzelendoorn, Haitze de Vries
• 1983 European Championship - Eric de Vries, Ed Kruijs, Jim Sieval, Ed Tromp
• 2003 European Championship - Eelco Jansen vs. Sweden
• 2003 European Olympic Qualification Tournament - Patrick de Lange;
• 2006 World Baseball Classic - Shairon Martis vs. Panama
• 2010 European Championship - Rob Cordemans, Dave Draijer vs. France
• 2014 European Championship - Mike Bolsenbroek - perfect game vs. Greece