Sydney Blue Sox

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The Sydney Blue Sox are a professional baseball team from the Australian metropolis of Sydney . You are one of six founding teams of the Australian Baseball League, which was newly formed in 2010 .

history

The establishment of the Australian Baseball League was announced in July 2009 at a press conference in Gold Coast . The Sydney Blue Sox were one of the six founding teams of the newly formed league. " Sydney Sting" , "Sydney Rocks" , "Sydney Surf" and "Sydney Bluewave" were initially discussed as team names before the current name was chosen. The home ground was the Blacktown Olympic Park, which was also used at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The first home game took place on November 6, 2010 against the Canberra Cavalry .

On August 19, 2010, the Blue Sox took Glenn Williams as their first manager for the 2010/11 season under contract. Williams had previously played for the Minnesota Twins in Major League Baseball . In their first season, the Blue Sox reached first place in the league during the regular season. However, the team has not yet been able to win a championship title in the ABL.

Current squad

Gift Ngoepe in 2013.
Squad 2018
Pitcher
  • - Garrett Granitz
  • 13 Vaughan Harris
  • - Tyler sir
  • - Alex Maestri
  • - Shogo Nakashima
  • 21 Todd Van Steensel
  • - Kender Villegas
  • 26 Luke Wilkins
  • - Todd Grattan
  • - Craig Anderson
  • - Nick Fanti
  • - Kiho Yun
  • - Zack Jones
  • - Josh Guyer
  • - Lo Chia-jen

Utility

  • - Trent D'Antonio
 Catcher
  • - Jack Murphy

Infielder

  • 3 Max burning
  • 11 Trent D'Antonio
  • 14 Josh Dean
  • - Dwayne Kemp
  • - Poison Ngoepe
  • 52 Rixon Taylor-Wingrove
  • 28 Zac Shepherd
  • 34 Jacob Younis

Outfielder

  • 45 Michael Campbell
  • 12 Alex Howe
  • - Shen Hao-wei

Known players

  • Gift Ngoepe (first MLB player born in continental Africa)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Official Site of The Sydney Blue Sox | sydneybluesox.com.au homepage. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Williams to coach Sydney Blue Sox . In: ABC News . August 19, 2010 ( net.au [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  3. ^ Glenn Williams Stats | Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
Australian Baseball League teams (since 2018)
South-West Division

Adelaide Bite  | Geelong Korea  | Melbourne Aces  | Perth Heat

North-East Division

Auckland Tuatara  | Brisbane Bandits  | Canberra Cavalry  | Sydney Blue Sox