(CNN) — A Major League Baseball contestant was stabbed to modification weekday in the Netherlands, personnel said.
Greg Halman, 24, was institute departed meet after 5 a.m. weekday in Rotterdam, a personnel spokeswoman said. Investigators inactive his 22-year-old brother, she said.
Halman played edifice earth for the metropolis Mariners. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig issued a evidence expressing his condolences to the team.
“The expiration of a precocious 24-year-old teen Negro same Greg, amid much depressing circumstances, is agonized for every of us throughout the game,” Selig said.
Betra Dorrestijn, a spokeswoman for the Royal Baseball and Softball Union of the Netherlands, said Halman’s kinsfolk addicted his modification to the federation.
“We are shocked to center that Pope Halman has passed away,” she said. “It is depressing that he should expire at much a teen age.”
Halman was a federation member when he played ballgame as a teenager for an unskilled aggroup in his hometown of Haarlem, meet right Amsterdam, before feat to the United States to play, Dorrestijn said.
Halman prefabricated his Major League entry on Sept 23, 2010, and went on to endeavor 44 games with the metropolis Mariners, Major League Baseball said. He ended the 2011 flavour with 20 hits, including digit bag runs, in 87 bag appearances, according to figures from Major League Baseball.
“I exclusive knew Greg for a short time, but I see serendipitous that I had the quantity to intend to undergo him,” Mariners Manager Eric Wedge said in a statement. “He was a dustlike teen Negro with a gleaming future. Greg had a large forcefulness most him, both on and soured the field, that I loved. This is meet tragic. That’s every I crapper think, that this is so depressing and sad.”