Bonn Capitals part ways with Head Coach

Hot stove in Baseball-Bundesliga starts

The Bonn Capitals announced on their website on Thursday that they will immediately will part ways with head coach Mathias Winterrath due to differences between him and the team. His contract would have ended at the end of the year anyway. Simon Falke takes over and will lead the junior team in the national championship in Regensburg on September 26 and 27. Bonn missed the playoffs in the Baseball-Bundesliga for a second straight season and will finish in sixth place in the northern division, securing a spot in next year’s campaign. Winterrath is a former member of the German national team and also worked six years as head coach with the Solingen Alligators.

He is the second head coach in the northern division to leave his post this summer, as Pulheim’s Ben Bizier left the Gophers a few weeks ago. With season’s end last weekend and only the relegation series on the calendar, the hot stove already has started. A local newspaper in Solingen reported this week that left-handed starting pitcher Enorbel Marquez-Ramirez, who is nursing a groin injury and is expected to pitch in the Baseball World Cup, could leave the Alligators this winter, as he has offers from Italian Baseball League teams. The club also tries to bring Andre Hughes back, who left last winter for the Dutch Hoofdklasse.