Left-handed pitcher Ricardo Hernandez has left the Dutch Hoofdklasse club Vaessen Pioniers to join the Italian Baseball League champion ASD Rimini for the 2016 season. The Venezuelan southpaw with Spanish passport already played in the IBL in 2012, when he was with Nettuno. In 2013 he then suited up for CB Barcelona in the Spanish Division de Honor before joining the Pioniers in 2014. In the United States he played affiliated minor league ball with the Miami Marlins, but didn’t get past Single A.