Article: Get to Know 'Em: Ruar Verkerk

[Jeremy Nygaard]

You can view the page at http://twinsdaily.com/content.php?r=2055-Get-to-Know-Em-Ruar-Verkerk

[CwK]

I'm calling him ROAR.

All caps.

 

Edit: Thanks, Jeremy. It's nice getting some background info from the prospect himself.

[ashbury]

Rawr!

 

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/150/i/2010/295/1/c/rawr_by_nuhps-d31amc7.jpg

[maxisagod]

Thanks Jeremy for taking the time to do this. It always nice to connect a name, face, and personality with a prospect.

[JB_Iowa]

16. years. old.

 

It's always hard for me to get my head around how young some of the athletes, actors, etc. are.

 

Best of luck to him and thanks for posting this.

[clutterheart]

Here is a scouting report:

Netherlands ? Ruar Verkerk

 

It says he is a "hothead". Good luck to the kid

[70charger]

Bert Blijleven (Editor: maybe the Dutch spelling, which is cool)

 

It is, and it's often written as a connected "y" with dots over it when in lowercase. The pronunciation is a long I, as in Blyleven. Fun fact: when used at the beginning of a sentence or proper noun, both letters are capitalized, as in IJmuiden, a town near Haarlem in Noord Holland where my grandfather lived until World War II.

[CharacterGroove]

Seems like a pretty mature kid. A good answer about the money - it was "fair." I wouldn't have answered that either.