Netanya Tigers

Netanya Tigers
נתניה טייגרס
League Israel Baseball League
Location Netanya
Ballpark Sportek Baseball Field
Year Founded 2006
League championships 0
Colors Orange and Black
Manager Ami Baran
Uniforms

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The Netanya Tigers (Hebrew: נתניה טייגרס‎) is an Israeli baseball team from Netanya in the Israel Baseball League.

The Tigers finished the inaugrual 2007 season in fourth place, 19-21 (.475), and were defeated by the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox in the semifinals of the 2007 championship, 6-3.

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History

The team's Manager is Israeli Ami Baran, who was originally from Chicago.

The first player selected by the Tigers in the inaugural 2007 draft was outfielder Dan Rootenberg.[1] He is a former Midwood High School and Binghamton University left-handed hitting outfielder, who hit .407 for Binghamton during his senior year, garnering All-SUNYAC and All-State honors, played in the Frontier League, the Swiss professional league, and for the Pleasantville Red Sox, and in 2006 batted .351 in the Westchester Rockland Wood Bat League. The first pitcher drafted by the Tigers was right-handed 6'5" pitcher Leon Feingold, who pitched for the State University of New York at Albany 1990-1994, the Cleveland Indians system from 1994-1995, the independent Atlantic League in 1999, and also played for the Pleasantville Red Sox. Both Rootenberg and Feingold were among the group of four players first signed by the League.

Stadium

Located at the Sportek Baseball Field in Tel Aviv, due to a lack of appropriate facilities in Netanya.

Update

For the first week of the season the Tigers did not have a home field, due to stadium construction delays in Tel Aviv. However, Sportek Stadium opened in mid-July 2007 at the intersection of Ibn Gvirol and Rokach Streets in Tel Aviv, and is home to both the Netanya Tigers and the Tel Aviv Lightning.

Roster

Active (25-man) roster Coaches/Other
Starting rotation
  • 1 Ryoju Kihara
  • 2 Matt Comiter
  • 4 Fabian Armenta
  • 12 Julio Guerrero
  • 17 Justin Prinstein
  • 19 Mike Kerfeld
  • 25 Shlomo Lipetz
  • 26 Rafael Rojano
  • 45 Leon Feingold

Bullpen

  • Currently unknown

† 15-day disabled list
Roster updated 08.03.2007
Transactions

 Catchers
  • 9 Ophir Katz
  • 15 Michael Ibbotson
  • 24 Sam Faeder

Infielders

  • 5 Ryan Forsythe
  • 8 Hector De Los Santos
  • 11 Josh Eichenstein
  • 14 Ramon Rodriguez
  • 16 Ty Eriksen
  • 22 Amit Kurz

Outfielders

  • 3 Dan Rootenberg
  • 7 Josh Doane
  • 10 Ben Engelhart
  • 21 Bryan Pinchuk

Designated hitters

  • Currently unknown
 Manager
  • 23 Ami Baran

Coaches

  • 15 Michael Ibbotsen

Suspended list

  • Currently vacant

External links

Footnotes

  1. ^ "First Player Draft in IBL History Yields Bumper Crop" (in English) (HTML). IsraelBaseballLeague.com. http://www.israelbaseballleague.com/news/pressreleases/index.html?article_id=24. Retrieved 2007-04-29. 
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