(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
   Netherlands Team to prepare in Arizona
Nederlands
 NIEUWEGEIN -
The coming weeks, a group of 31 players will participate with the Netherlands KIngdom Team in a training-camp in Scottsdale (Arizona, USA).
Amongst this group are also the players, who will participate in the upcoming World Baseball Classic, which opens on March 6 in South Korean capital Seoul.
The 28-man roster for the Classic will officially be released by the WBC-organization on Wednesday-evening (February 8), which will be early Thursday-morning (February 9) Dutch time.
Most of the 31 players will fly to Arizona coming Saturday.
There, they will be joined by players, who are already in the USA, because they live there or are preparing for coming seasons in the States.
The camp ends on February 26.
The selected players for the WBC will then travel to Seoul.
During the training-camp, which will be held at the Spring Training-site of the San Francisco Giants, the team also will play some games.
The players that will participate in the Arizona training-camp are:
Pitchers (17):
Tom de Blok, Rob Cordemans, Kevin Heijstek (all L&D Amsterdam Pirates), Mike Bolsenbroek (Buchbinder Regensburg Legionäre, Germany), Berry van Driel, Kevin Kelly, Diegomar Markwell, Loek van Mil, Orlando Yntema (all Curaçao Neptunus), Lars Huijer (Hoofddorp Pioniers), Jair Jurrjens (no club), Shairon Martis (Lincoln Saltdogs, USA), Ryan Oduber (Boston Red Sox-organisation, USA), Mark Pawelek (no club), Jim Ploeger (HCAW), Tom Stuifbergen (DSS) and Juan Carlos Sulbaran (St. Louis Cardinals-organisation, USA).
Catchers (3):
Gianison Boekhoudt (Curaçao Neptunus), Dashenko Ricardo (Lincoln Saltdogs, USA) and Chadwick Tromp (Cincinnati Reds-organisation, USA).
Infielders (7):
Yurendell de Caster (no club), Stijn van der Meer (Houston Astros-organisation, USA), Juremi Profar (Texas Rangers-organisation, USA), Sharlon Schoop (Baltimore Orioles-organisation, USA), Curt Smith (Lincoln Saltdogs, USA), Nick Urbanus (L&D Amsterdam Pirates) and Gianfranco Wawoe (Seattle Mariners-organisation, USA).
Outfielders (4):
Chris Garia, Randolph Oduber (both Lincoln Saltdogs, USA), Dwayne Kemp (Curaçao Neptunus) and Kalian Sams (no club).
(February 8)
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