Mark0420 says:

According to both the WBSC and IBAF rankings, the Netherlands holds a great 5th place in the world, so I expected that baseball is kind of a big thing here. I’ve been a baseball enthusiast for a couple of years now, but it’s irrelevant back at home, therefore I was looking forward to finding an amateur team to play in here (I’m an exchange student at Utrecht University). And now I see how good their teams really are. Also, the main reason the dutch team is good, is that a lot of players originate from Aruba and Curaçao, where the sport is huge. Not all of them come to the Netherlands to play, but they go directly to the USA (or other leagues) if they’re good enough. But still baseball isn’t much of a thing in Europe, sadly.