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- No country produces more Major Leaguers per square mile than the tiny island of Curaçao. During the winter of 2020, we explored how baseball arrived on the island and the stars who led its surge in popularity.
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Curaçao 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼 !! We are proud Come visit our island ! thanks for this video MLB
Looks like a great place with awesome people!
What is the language they're speaking at 5:10? It's not English, but it doesn't sound like Dutch either, which I thought was the language of Curaçao.
@@rushmike2952 That's the official language for the island given that we are a Dutch Colony under the Netherlands Antilles. However, the actual language spoken by us locals on a day to day basis at home and in our community is called Papiamento. Its a dialect that dates back all the way to slavery on the island.
The Caribbean is a hot bed for MLB talent much love to Curaçao.💯🇵🇷🇨🇼 🇻🇪🇩🇴🇨🇺
I am coming In April or May
Interesting that Curacao has produced two of the all-time best defensive players in Andrelton Simmons and Andruw Jones. It's wonderful to see baseball thriving there, and I love that baseball draws so much talent from so many different places in the world.
Andruw Jones is right about how playing in the curaçao fields gives their players an edge in the US. A routine ground ball on a field like that can change instantly. Learned that the hard way out in Mexico
Braves have had at least one player from Curaçao for years now: Andruw Jones, Jair Jurrjens, Andrelton Simmons, Ozzie Albies.
Don’t forget Randall Simon
That's why the Braves is still the most popular team at Curacao...Well, maybe after the Yankees. There are still a lot of old-heads (from Meulens era) that root fro the Yanks.
Jair Jurjjens???
@Michael Ye he said Braves🙄
@@m.r.2718 Even way before Meulens, the vast majority of baseball fans on the island were rooting for the Yankees. A distant second in number were the fans of the Dodgers. But true, when Andruw made it big with the Braves, everything changed on the island.
Us Caribbean people make baseball better and more fun! Gotta stick together 🇵🇷🇨🇼🇩🇴🇨🇺
Si señor
hey man you forgot bahamas 🇧🇸
Caribbean forever ☝️
Aruba be on the map 2👀
@@ogfifirancho2972 nah
I played in the minor leagues with the giants and some of best human beings I’ve ever met were from there. Great players but great people as well
I went on vacation in curaçao! Such a beautiful island
Thx❤😁👍
@@tripssdoubleg249 Same last name as the great body builder. Doubt you're related, just something I noticed.
At the end of the day, its comes down to passion, if you love the game and work hard at it , you can become anything you want in life
Who else knew that kenley was a catcher before a pitcher?
Well ok. Cool.
News to me
Not me
@T K Pudge Rodriguez used to pitch in Little Leagues and also played third base before making the full move to become a catcher.
Everyone
RESPECT FOR OUR DUSHI CURAÇAO
🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼
Super cool om te zien wat deze jongens teruggeven aan Bon Bini Curaçao. Hopi nice. Ik heb gespeeld met Didi zijn vader en dat zal ik nooit meer vergeten! Zelfs opgezocht op curaçao om naar wedstrijdje te kijken. Top eiland met top gasten. Masha danki
Amazing video!! As a life long Braves fan I’ve known about Andruw Jones and his impact on Curaçao. I had no clue about Hensley Meulens. A always cool to learn something new.
Being a man whose parents are immigrants from the island of Curaçao 🇨🇼 I love seeing this ❤️❤️
I love seeing the Caribbean succeed, love from Puerto Rico, hope to bring a little league team to play in Curacao some day.
If you read the book, The Talent Code, it attributes the rise of baseball (Curacao)to Andruw Jones. Kids were motivated by seeing one of their own do well and gave them hope they could do the same. Pretty interesting.
Even tho I was not born there I visit family there all the time basically spent half my life there proud of my little island country
Because we're the best. Viva Curaçao 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
yeahh no, cubas the best in baseball base on history and this video is using a cuban soundtrack.
Oh yeah you forgot about 🇩🇴 before you say that
🇷🇺
Umm... ok? No on asked
@@halvil9299 no more
Curacao little league championship team should be a Disney movie
That same team reached the championship game the very next year too and lost to Haway , quite an accomplishment! 🇨🇼💪🏽
Yeah, our little league is NO joke. Every single year we end up qualifying and/or at least in the top 5.
@@RAMIL1000 yeah and jurickson profar was pumping heat as a pitcher
Curaçao constantly punches above their weight in soccer as well. It’s amazing to see such a small island perform so well against the odds in several sports.
That is whitin the kingdom
7th on the Olympics
This is the team I root for every year in LLWS!!🤙🏾
Same
Very proud of my people 🇨🇼 Greetings from Pennsylvania!
🇩🇴🇵🇷🇨🇺🇨🇼⚾️❤️ We share this in our genes. I like that curaçao is taking this walk because it fits more with 🇵🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴 than they do with the other caribbean islands.
Offcourse we got good connections with those islands cause we can speak Spanish and there is lot's of Dominicans and Colombians and Venezuelans living in Curacao too! #CaribbeanGang💯🌴
As an American, the Caribbean has some of THE BEST players I’ve ever seen!
Represent our island cura 🇨🇼🇨🇼🇨🇼
This was fantastic! Would love to see more shorts on baseball in different countries around the world. 😁
Curaçao's baseball heritage ❤️How a little island embraced the sport ⚾️
This is great! Keep bringing them MLB!
Such a fascinating story! Thank you for covering this.
Wow so many players come from there and I didn't even know it existed
Just like ppl from the us that think everything outside the us is Mexico or Europe and that there’s nothing else besides them
Someone flunked geography
Is someone stupid
Better to learn now, than never at all. Who says sport's don't teach anything?!
Keep learning, ignore the haters.
@@aldalypineda919 P. a
Hensleys story is anazing. respect
Where is the full-length doc? This was awesome @mlb!
This is it it's just a mini doc
Please make more videos like this. This stuff is so awesome. Going in depth into the background of guys lives
"You see there's some rocks here on the field...you won't see this in the United States." Oh buddy do I have some stories for you 😂
Ypi cant compare it with curacao bro tye fields are very trash
@@tripssdoubleg249 Ik there's no way for you to know this but the main reason I said that is bc I've played on many many fields plagued with rocks. But the funniest is my own HS field used to have intentional rows of rocks in the outfield from infield to the fence for "drainage" don't ask how that guy got the maintenance job but still. Not comparing just more saying, "yo I've been there." Ik this is kinda unrelated here but the worst field I ever played on tho was in the DR on a sugar cane field with no fence and horses in the outfield with me..had the time of my life too
They shouldn't fix that field too much though. Because the hardships of that field is what made them great. They can't get too comfortable.
Thats just 1 of many fields on the island that are like that.. pretty much every field is what the field looked like before it got revamped, so there's no shortage of hardship fields
One is for sure The MLB and other baseball and music my two true loves. I can't go a week without watching a few games and I can't go a day without listening to my favorite bands like Delta Parole.
I love how baseball is world sport like soccer
of course not as big as soccer, sadly. But it's so cool to see so many countries represented on the MLB
At least baseball players don’t flop
Ya, everyone deserves a shot🙌
With the support of the MLB players I am sure that rocky field will be a top notch field soon. All the players that come from that island are very talented.
Curacao has some great players but the DR is on a whole 'nother level. I'd love to see one of these types of video's on Dominican players.
But Curaçao is 15 times smaller than 🇩🇴
There are literally 100's of videos like this about the Dominican...
I'm Dominican and I've seen many videos and documentaries about DR baseball. This video is great, and I'm proud that Caribbean baseball is well represented
Look up the Robinson Cano Vice video here on TH-cam
We also have a population of 10 million people in DR... I didn't know the population of Curacao was so small. Its impressive how many major leaguers they've had come out of there.... Love it though because the game i love is growing
esta dushi yu🙌🏼🇨🇼 good representation of our island
Who knew Didi father (Didi) was a great pitcher in the Netherlands? He had amazing long fingers and when he trows a fastball it moves like crazy⚾
Ugh, another reason to miss Didi Gregorious. Gooo Yanks!
Yes in Didi!
And now back to back champions…Kenley Jansen & Ozzie Albies 🔥🏆🇨🇼🔥🏆🇨🇼
Awesome video!!! Curacao is always producing great baseball players. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Always been a HUGE Andruw fan! Watching him in his prime was something else.
Don't forget Randall Simon, the guy that whacked the sausage up in Milwaukee. The video is here.
That my island proud of it.
More power to you, greeting from a diehard Dominican Yankee fan in NYC
Venezuela 🇻🇪 the dominican Republic 🇩🇴 curacao🇨🇼 and Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 dominate baseball!! It's just a proven fact!
Dont forget Cuba those guys can ball and for the record I'm half Dominican
Is mike trout not the best baseball player ?? And who have been the most dominant pitchers in the last 15 years Clayton kershaw, max scherzer, Justin verlander, Jacob degrom, tim lincecum, Madison bumgarner sounds prettt American to me
Represent 🇨🇼❤️
This island is interesting. They joined the Netherlands team at the WBC to beat Korea twice, and Korean baseball fans came to notice the island.
They visited Korea four years ago and proved to Korean baseball fans that they are a strong team. Now I think they are the heroes of Curaçao. It's really strong and you'll win the WBC soon.
As a native Dominican who is a diehard Yankee who lived in the Bx this reminds me so much of how my compatriots got started.
Profar played for our local Class A Hickory Crawdads. Great player.
This is dope! The subtitle and graphics work was shakey to me but I'm cool.
My boy Ozzie
Just a little PSA, Didi was actually born in the Netherlands before moving to Curaçao at the age of 5.
Your point
@@Dontae_777 Not really a point just facts.
@@soccerndog3785 I was born in the Netherlands also moved to curaçao when I was 3 my parents didn’t have a choice because my whole family was on those 2 small islands
His parents are from Curaçao
Awesome!! Please bring more content like this!
This is a WONDERFULL story
Did you guys know the kid was Jurickson Profar and he’s an MLB player today
Curaçao generating lots of baseball talent goes back decades before the MLB clubs discovered that talentpool. With Curaçao being part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands a large number of Curaçao-kids moved to the Netherlands to get a college degree and play baseball in the dutch major league (Hoofdklasse) since the early '60's. As a result the level of play in the Dutch League improved a lot and reached a decent level in spite of baseball being a small sport in the dutch mainland.
Amazing video
Wow i didnt know Didi and Jensen were from Curaçao
Didi is born in Amsterdam.
@@markknoop6283 Geboren in Amsterdam maar represent Curaçao to the fullest !
@@unclet4335 Off course Didi got a great career start in Curaçao.
The level of Baseball in the Netherlands isn't that great we tried to develop it bud it didn't catch on until the world championship.
Beautiful island.
I want to there go..
Ozzie, Andruw, Andrelton...thank you Curacao.
Curaçao is still a big part of the Dutch Kingdom and the most populous in the Dutch West Indies.
Can u do Puerto rico
Andruw Jones is Curaçao's greatest player..
2 of Curaçao 3 concacaf gold cup group stage games will take place at the Toyota stadium in Texas. There is a player called kenhi on the curacaomnt
it's gonna be so wrong seeing didi in a uniform other than pinstripes. besides judge he had to be everyone's favorite player. always humble, he could hit 3 grand slams in a game and would never mention himself in his tweets. we'll miss you
@nycjin816 lol he’s gonna be wearing pinstripes on the Phillies
We here in Philly are going to be happy we have him.....if they actually play the season!
ok wiseguy, the ICONIC pinstripes. you guys have harper realmuto didi our former closer d-rob segura, cutch, and a nice pen. you guys should be rocking the nl east
I'd like a video about Panama... thanks to Rod Carew, Mariano Rivera, Carlos Lee, Ramiro Mendoza.
Thank you Curaçao
we have Andruw Jones to thank
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Wow
Haven’t seen this comment before
Curacao baseball is very, very popular!
amazing🙏
Aruba 🇦🇼 Curaçao 🇨🇼
Albies forearms are massive
Imagine playing Cuban music when this video has nothing to do with cubans?
our music is very similar to the music of latin people , so it fits
I don't mean to bash on Curacao, but when it comes to islands, y'all know who the King of baseball is...🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴😉
But Curaçao is 15 times smaller than 🇩🇴
Curacao has a population size about 71x smaller than that of DR...(10.6+ million vs a bit less than 150 thousand), which would mean that in theory Curacao would have 71x6=426 active players in the MLB (DR had 102 in 2019), if it had the same population size as DR (obviously, that's not how it works in reality, but you hopefully got my point). So yeah, you better be the king...lol.
You guys have competition with Venezuela and Colombia in the future lol
It seems that you don't understand what "per capita" means 🤔
@@TheBestOfMaya07 I never made "per capita" the issue. I fully understand the fact that Curacao produces players at a bigger ratio than DR but I'm pointing out the fact that DR currently has the best and highest amount of players in the MLB right now.
Because that's where the Scouting Agent is Vacationing ON THE JOB at COMPANY EXPENSE !!!!!! 😁
I play baseball my self love it 3 Homer's In a few games and a pitcher and my dream would be.to get to hang out with an MLB baseball star dont care which one I would just love that
I went there for Thanksgiving a couple years ago and it’s so beautiful. I made a vlog on my channel about it if you want to see what it’s like!
Proud !
Guus hiddink is the new coach of the cyracao mnt
Joe lahoud was the 1st arab anerican that play in the majirs.
Beautiful people
Where is the mother from a jones from?
The red Sox had a player of Lebanese descent in the past
Taste the curasauce!!!
They should help the Curaçao national team and Armenia to participate in the 2021 Copa america
It's the kingdom of the Netherlands national team
Very cool !
Is it a Dutch colony?
yeah.
@@starboiseb No---became independent in 2010
jonathan bart i looked it up and it said it’s part of the dutch kingdom still. i was mostly replying to the dutch aspect of his question but you’re right it isn’t a colony
It is a bit more complicated than that. As of 1954 Curacao formed part of the Netherlands Antilles, an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Basically self governing, however foreign affairs and defense in the hands of the Netherlands. In 2010 the Netherlands Antilles were disestablished and Curacao became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, just as Aruba and Sint Maarten. So no, not a colony, and also no, not independent but self governing.
@@jonathanbart8746 It's not independent...lol
Didi looks good with the Phillies uniform,,lol😂
Cura G❤️🔥
I thought Didi Gregorius was from the Netherlands?
Respect Albies sigi asina 👍🏾
Ozzi hasn’t been to randells island if he thinks we don’t got rocks in us xD
Lol Randalls Island in NYC has teams of all nationalities
Lol I’ve played there it’s ok
I feel that dominicans had spread this pasion. Actually dominicans they don't even know how to okay soccer but BASEBALL
Pongan subtitulos a español
Was more interested in the sugarprocuction of liquor
Didi’sfrom Netherlands
Everyone from Curaçao plays for the dutch so yeah indeed
Kloem Kaboem what
Yeah I’m kinda confused
Curaçao is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (autonomous, not independent), so most players would play for them as they have a national team
He was born in Netherlands to parents from Curaçao and raised on the island.
Love that
Do st.maarten next
St. Maarten the island with the most popular airport in the Caribbean lol