[quote]Originally posted by dutchdude:
Tiger Fan,
being from Holland I saw the name Robert Eenhoorn popup. What did he do in HOB, did he ever get to the big leagues? What about Rikkert Faneyte?
groeten uit Nederland,
Klaas
Glad you enjoy the HOB. Both Eenhoorn and Faneyte made the majors in the HOB, but very briefly. Eenhoorn was the player of the game in his major league debut though.
Robert Eenhoorn
Born in Rotterdam, Holland, Eenhoorn played 37 games over 4 seasons in the major leagues in real life. You can view his real life stats here:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/e/eenhoro01.shtml
In the HOB, Eenhoorn played 25 games for the Yankees. He is still active but in the minor leagues at the end of the 2000 season.
He was called up to replace the injured Damaso Garcia at second base in late August of 1994. He had quite the major league debut hitting a 3 run homer with 2 out in the bottom of the 14th inning off of Oakland's Keith Atherton to give the Yankees a 10-9 victory over Oakland. The A's had scored two runs in the top of the 14th to take the lead. He was 2-for-7 in the game. His other career highlight was a 4 hit game against Minnesota on September 18th.
He played 2 games for the Yankees in 1995 but has been in the minors ever since.
On May 7, 1996 he was a throw-in in the deal that sent Hal Morris to Oakland for P Steve Ontiveros. It was the second half of the trade that brought Mark McGwire to the Big Apple. In July of 1997 he was moved to Milwaukee with 3B Jeff Cirillo and minor league P Brad Rigby for pitcher Mark Kiefer. He is still in the Brewers minor league system as of the end of the 2000 season.
CAREER STATS :
YEAR AVG HR RBI G AB H 2B 3B R SB CS BB K OBP SLG TEAMS
1994 .225 2 9 23 71 16 4 0 10 0 0 2 21 .247 .366 NYA
1995 .000 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 NYA
HOB REAL LIFE
Total AB : 72 67
Total AVG : .222 .239
Total Hits: 16 16
Total HR : 2 1
Total RBI : 9 10
Total Runs: 10 7
Total SB : 0 0
Rikkert Faneyte
The outfielder from Amsterdam played 80 games for San Francisco and Texas in the mid-90's in real life. In the HOB, he is still active but it appears his major league career will consist of just pinch hit appearances.
In April of 1995 he was included in a trade that sent Albert Belle and minor league catcher Jim McNamara to Pittsburgh for pitcher Rick Reed. He remains in the Pirates minor league system at the end of the 2000 season.
CAREER STATS :
YEAR AVG HR RBI G AB H 2B 3B R SB CS BB K OBP SLG TEAMS
1994 .500 0 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .500 .500 SFN
HOB REAL LIFE
Total AB : 2 132
Total AVG : .500 .174
Total Hits: 1 23
Total HR : 0 0
Total RBI : 0 9
Total Runs: 0 10
Total SB : 0 1
[ January 13, 2002: Message edited by: Tiger Fan ]