Bodie Eskes

Bodie has 3 nationalities, born Dutch, but also has American and Canadian naturalization. In 2018, he was selected and played for the Baseball Academy Kennemerland, part of the national talent development program for U17 baseball players. In 2022, Bodie was selected to train full time at Talent TeamNL, the U19 national talent development program, started by the national Olympic Committee and the Dutch Baseball Federation. In the 2023 season, Bodie played for the Second highest team by the club DSS/Kinheim and made his debut in the Dutch Honkbal Hoofdklasse (highest division), where he will start in the 2024 season.

His major strengths are his coachability, motivation, discipline and hard work. He is always eager to learn and wants to become as good as possible. Bodie is very sociable and a real team player; together you win, together you lose.

Bodie is extremely athletic, very fast, defensively exceptionally skilled and game focused. He is working hard to become stronger, perfecting his hitting technique and excited to gain more experience. We strongly believe there is still much room for improvement and his motivation, focus and coachability will certainly help with that.

His best results are

- Paderborn (Germany) U12

- Barcelona Catalunya Baseball week U15

- Praag Pony League U17

- Toulouse U18 (TalentTeamNL mental resilience camp) with 3 games against French U18

- Mr Baseman award 2017 at his club

- Dutch Champion aspirants 1 in 2020

His statistics are

- Infield velocity: 85/87 Mph

- 60 yard dash: 6.8 sec

- 30 yard dash: 4.03 sec

- On base percentage: 0.450

- Fielding percentage: 0.970

- Put out: 93 (36 games)

- Exit velocity: 86 Mph

In the United States, Bodie aspires to maximize his potential as an athlete and a person, striving for excellence within his college Baseball team. After college, he wants to play Baseball at the highest possible level. His ultimate dream is to become a professional. 

He is currently enrolled in his final year of high school in the Netherlands and is expected to graduate in the Spring of 2024. At the moment, he doesn’t know what he specifically wants to study. He will make that decision in the coming months and during his first year in America. For more information about his academics, please check out the details section down below.

If you are interested in learning more about Bodie, please reach out to pedro@slamstox.com.