Bas de Jong
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Bas de Jong
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Born September 10, 1979
Bas de Jong is the brother of Jos de Jong.
Bas de Jong first had a big season in Hoofdklasse in 2003 with HCAW. He hit .336 to finish 5th in the league. In 2005, he hit .281/.317/.340 for HCAW. During 2006, he batted .291/.326/.367 with 29 RBI in 41 games, fifth in the league in runs batted in. In 2007, he moved to the Amsterdam Pirates and batted .316/.346/.485 with 31 runs and 33 RBI in 40 contests. He was 9th in slugging (between former minor leaguers Harvey Monte and Danny Rombley), 4th in home runs (5), 8th in runs, tied for 5th in RBI, tied for 2nd in triples (3), 3rd in total bases (83, trailing only Fausto Alvarez and Rombley) and 3rd in hits (54, behind Rombley and Dirk van 't Klooster).
In the 2008 Hoofdklasse, de Jong hit .333/.381/.519 and drove home 42 runs in 41 games. He was among the leaders in average (5th), slugging (3rd behind Sidney de Jong and Eugène Kingsale), home runs (4, tied for 6th with Wesley Connor), runs (31, 10th), RBI (1st), doubles (15, 1st), total bases (81, 1st, just ahead of Sidney de Jong) and hits (52, tied with Tjerk Smeets for 2nd behind Mark Duursma). He then went 8 for 16 in the playoffs, throwing out two runners from the outfield in five games, to lead Amsterdam to an upset of DOOR Neptunus. In the 2008 Holland Series, Bas hit .167/.214/.250.
Bas hit .250/.333/.250 in the Nettuno phase of the 2009 European Cup. On June 11, de Jong hit for the cycle in a Hoofdklasse game that only lasted 6 1/2 innings due to the mercy rule. In the Final Four phase of the European Cup, he was 1 for 6 with a walk. Bas hit .379/.455/.517 with 6 RBI in 8 games in the 2009 World Port Tournament, one of the top Dutch hitters in the event. In the finale, he went 0 for 4 against Cuba but scored one run. He was 4th in the event in OBP, 5th in average and 5th in slugging (trailing only Cubans in all three). He tied Giorvis Duvergel for sixth in RBI, behind five Cubans.
