People realy don't seem to realize that the Curaçao- and Aruba players on the Dutch team, in comparison to most other multi-million player base countries have an astonishing potential: all players in Curaçao and Aruba counted together, do not exeed a 1000 players, and still manage to have at least a dozen players in all levels of MLB put together!! That's astonishing if you compare them to let's say China, which country has probably a manyfold of this number playing baseball on a daily basis. The Curaçao baseball championships for instance do not exceed 24 games on a yearly basis, and still they have managed to produce players the likes of Andruw Jones, of all people!

The Netherlands team includes players from Aruba and Curacao, which means they do have some major league talent on the roster, including Andruw Jones. However, they don't have nearly as much of a talent base as other nations, and probably won't be that competitive.