Sharnol Leonard Adriana (born November 13, 1970) is a

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an- Dutch baseball player and coach. He spent several minor league seasons in the Toronto Blue Jays organization before moving to the Mexican League. As of 2020, he is a coach for the Spokane Indians.

Early years

Born in Willemstad, Adriana began his professional baseball career after being taken in the 15th round of the

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by the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays assigned him to their

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farm team, where he hit .206-.311-.341 as the regular shortstop. In 1992, he was the second baseman for the

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and he hit .276-.369-.333. In 1993, the 22-year-old was struggling with the AA

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, where his line read .215-.308-.243 as the backup to Joe Lis Jr.

Mexican Baseball

Sharnol moved to the

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in 2000, returning to Newark for a brief .118 spell. Splitting the year between the

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and the

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, he had a .326/~.441/.603 line, stole 24 in 36 tries, homered 29 times and led the Liga with 113 runs scored. He also spent time representing the Netherlands in the

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. In 2001, he had another 20-20 year (21 SB, 28 HR, five shy of league leader

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), batting .313 and slugging .581 for Campeche while scoring 89 runs. He also batted .254 with four homers for Newark. In the

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, Adriana hit .188/.289/.250 as the Dutch team DH. In 2002, he reversed course during year, returning to Cordoba from Campeche and hitting .317 and slugging .520. During the

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, Adriana hit .350/.435/.350. He batted .301/?/.488 for Cordoba in the '03 season. He had the best average in the

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, hitting .500/~.613/.583 for the champion Dutch squad. He scored 9 runs in 8 games and his 7 walks were two behind leader

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. Adriana hit .391/.407/1.043 in the

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with 10 RBI, 6 runs, 3 doubles and four homers in six games. He became the third player in Cup history to hit three homers in a game, following Antonio Muñoz (1980 and Luis Casanova (1990). Adriana had his three-homer game against France. He was named the Cup All-Star first baseman (beating out

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, Tae-kyun Kim and

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) and tied for third in homers, one behind

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and Audes de Leon. He continued to pummel the ball in 2004, hitting .297/~.422/.480 with 7 HR for the Yucatan Lions and

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. He again appeared for the Dutch Olympic squad that year. Adriana bounced back in 2005, as the 34-year-old veteran hit .368/.452/.634 for the San Luis Potosi Tuneros, leading the Liga in runs (105) and total bases (277), stealing 32 (caught 21 times though, the most) and smacking 25 homers. In the

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, he hit .273/.314/.576 with 13 RBI in 10 games.

National Baseball Team

Playing for the Netherlands in the

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, Adriana went 2 for 6 with a double. In the 2006 Intercontinental Cup, he hit .405-.511-.568 with 11 RBI in nine games. He was second to

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in RBI and made the all-tournament team at first bat. In the

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, as the captain of the Dutch squad, the first baseman hit .217-.250-.391 with only two runs and one RBI in 7 games; he still wound up with the third-best OPS on a poor-hitting team. He hit a solo homer against Weiliang Li in the Netherlands' win over

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and got their lone hit in a loss to Stephen Strasburg and United States national baseball team. They finished fifth and sixth, respectively in his two previous Olympics. Adriana is now also participating in the

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representing the Netherlands. Adriana's seventh-inning single off Team USA starter Stephen Strasburg was the sole hit allowed by Strasburg in his start against the Dutch at the 2008 Olympics.

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