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Henricus "Rick" van den Hurk (Eindhoven, May 22, 1985) is a FORMER Dutch professional baseball pitcher, who played professionally for 20 years. from 2015 until 2020 he played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in japan. He has also pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates. in south-korea he played for the Samsung Lions in the korean baseball organization (KBO). In international play, he is a member of the Netherlands national baseball team.

At the age of 16, van den Hurk was scouted by Chicho Jesurun when playing for the Oosterhout baseball team Twins, where his father was coach. He went to Fort Lauderdale Preparatory School where he graduated in 2003.

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