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Todd Bertram Van Steensel is a minor league baseball player contracted to the Minnesota Twins organisation.〔http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=573667#/career/R/pitching/2014/ALL〕 Van Steensel was born 14-1-1991 in Sydney, Australia. Van Steensel has represented his native Australia on several occasions, most notably in the MLB opening series in 2013/14. Todd plays for the Sydney Blue Sox in the Australian Baseball League where he garnered the nickname "Hop Scotch" after one if his superstitions of not stepping on the foul lines.〔https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/527039297912729600〕 To escape from the popularity of being a professional baseball player, Todd often uses the pseudonym "Tug" when ordering coffee. 〔https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/648911628767993856〕 Van Steensel started the American season in the extended roster and worked his way into the closers role which he has coveted from 2011. Todd finished the year with 9 saves out of 10 opportunities and an impressive ERA of 1.39 for the year.〔http://instagram.com/p/wXoIL5FXEi/?modal=true〕 == European Sojourn == 2012 saw Van Steensel head to Europe to play for Corendon Kinheim in the Dutch National League. In his first trip to the mound (June 2012) he pitched 2.2 innings, giving up just 1 hit and no free passes whilst striking out 6 (six). By mid July Todd was headed back to Australia after an off field incident, It was decided by team management and his mother the best thing was to go home. The off field incident was unlike most seen by Australian sportsmen, in that it involved no lewd act, he simply failed to hang onto the ring whilst showing off his dunking skills in a game of 1-on-1 with visiting Australian Luke Wilkins. The result was surgery and an elbow reconstruction. Corendon Kinheim went on to win the championship.〔http://toddvs35.blogspot.com.au/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=38〕 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「Todd Van Steensel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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