The State College Spikes opened the New York/Penn League season last night before a SRO crowd, but were completely overmatched by the Crosscutters. Five of the Pirates’ 2009 draft picks, who have already signed contracts, are with the Spikes already, and made their professional debuts in the game: LF Jose Hernandez, 2B(SS) Ty Summerlin, DH (OF) Pat Irvine, RHP Jason Erickson, and RHP Marc Baca. Dutch South African player Brett Willemburg also made his pro baseball debut, coming in as a late-inning replacement at shortstop. First-round pick C Tony Sanchez is scheduled to join the team tomorrow, for a few games before being moved to the West Virginia Power roster next week. Ninth-round pick, INF Brock Holt has also signed and has been added to the Spikes’ roster.
via Spikes Start Off on the Wrong Hoof; 3 Hits for Alvarez; Tabata’s First Homer – Sandlot Swashbucklers.
Willemburg is not Dutch, he’s from South African
Thanks.
That was an error made by the original author on Sandlot Swashbucklers. I’ve corrected the error in my excerpt by crossing out the Dutch reference and replacing it with South African, something that the Swashbuckler blogger should have done when he corrected his mistake.