Twins Oosterhout is baseball and softball club based in
Oosterhout
Oosterhout (; from ''ooster'', "eastern", and ''hout'', "woods") is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in southern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of in .
Population centers
The municipality of Ooste ...
, the Netherlands. The Twins have played in the
Honkbal Hoofdklasse
The Honkbal Hoofdklasse ( Dutch for ''Major League Baseball'') is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB).
Games are pl ...
since 2016. The team plays its home games at Sportpark de Slotbosse Toren.
Former
Rakuten Golden Eagles
The , often shortened as the , are a baseball team based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It has played in Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League since the team's formation in November 2004. The team is owned by the Internet shopping c ...
pitcher
Keiji Uezono played for the Twins in 2016. He went 4-1 with a 1.68 ERA in 59 innings pitched.
In 2021, the Twins began a exchange program with the
Ibaraki Astro Planets of the
Baseball Challenge League. Under the program, two Japanese players from the Astro Planets roster are playing with the Twins for the 2021 season. In the future the Twins will also be able to send players and/or coaches to the Astro Planets to participate in a full Baseball Challenge League season.
In 2023, American politician
J.D Scholten pitched for the Twins, going 2 –1 with a 4.50 ERA and 31 strikeouts in 26 innings pitched.
Current roster
External links
Official website
References
External links
Twins Official Website(Dutch)
Baseball teams in the Netherlands
Softball teams in the Netherlands
Honkbal Hoofdklasse teams
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