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Hensley Filemon Acasio "Bam Bam" Meulens (; born June 23, 1967) is a retired Curaçaoan professional baseball player and current hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants. A native of Curaçao, he played from to in Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Korea Baseball Organization. He was the first Curaçaoan to play in both Major League Baseball and the Dominican Professional Baseball League He speaks five languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Papiamento and Japanese. Hitting home runs left-handed while playing softball as a teenager earned Meulens the nickname "Bam Bam" when his friends compared his power to the Flintstones cartoon character.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="BAM-BAM" Meulens is Grizzlies Hitting Coach )〕 Over the course of his career, Meulens would become the first to play for all four of the major Caribbean winter leagues.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ENTREVISTA HENSLEY MEULENS: Mi vida es la pelota )〕 ==Early career (1985–1993)== Hensley Meulens was signed by the Yankees as an undrafted free agent in 1985. After struggling in his first professional season in 1986 with the Gulf Coast Yankees, Meulens made a splash in 1987 with Single-A Prince William, hitting .300 with 28 HR and 103 RBI, also being named to the Carolina League All-Star team. His hitting cooled somewhat in 1988 & 1989 as he split time between the Double-A Albany-Colonie Yankees of the Eastern League and the Triple-A Columbus Clippers of the International League. His bat rebounded in 1990 for Columbus as he helped lead the team to the 1990 International League championships (where they ultimately lost to Rochester), hitting .285 with 26 HR and 96 RBI, and was named the 1990 International League MVP. Meulens' impressive 1990 season earned him a spot on the Yankees roster in 1991, but he was back in Columbus in 1992 to help lead the Clippers to the Governors' Cup Championship. 1993 was a frustrating year for Meulens, at the end of which the Yankees sold his contract to the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hensley Meulens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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