In 2024, the baseball federations of Curaçao and Aruba announced a partnership to field their own national team, in what some commentators viewed as a split with the Netherlands.

The Dutch Antillean national team was largely composed of players from Curaçao and Aruba, until the latter split off in 1986 to form its own constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Aruba national baseball team would compete against the Netherlands Antilles at the 1991 Pan American Games.

[5] Since then, players from the former Dutch Antilles have continued to play on the Netherlands national team for the World Baseball Classic.

For minor international competitions, Curaçao has fielded its own national team, as have Bonaire and Sint Maarten.