The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed 17-year-old Daan Cornelissen of the Dutch 1E Klasse club PSV Eindhoven. Last year he played for the second team of DOOR Neptunus, DOOR Tridents. He reached an agreement over the standard seven-year-contract and will report to Brisbane, Australia on June 15 to start his professional career. He will stay there for six weeks to train with other talents in a kind of instructional league, getting used to the higher level and everyday baseball. Cornelissen was recommended by PSV coach Martijn Nijhoff, who also is a Dutch scout for the Pirates in Europe.
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May 17, 2009 | 6:10 pm
[...] accomplishments in the WBC and realize they play a pretty good brand of baseball there. http://www.mister-baseball.com/pittsburgh-pirates-sign-daan-cornelissen/ reports that the Pirates have signed 17 year old Daan Corneilissen. He will report to Brisbane [...]
Comment by corvox
March 13, 2010 | 12:19 am
I hope this helps the Pirates get a winning season for a chnange!
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