When Red Sox closer Kenley Jansen tips his cap on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Park in Seattle in recognition of being an All-Star for the fourth time in his career, he will be thinking about an island full of baseball lovers cheering him on from his homeland of Curaçao.

That is the land that produced Andruw Jones, one of the most gifted center fielders the game has ever seen. Ozzie Albies, Jurickson Profar, Andrelton Simmons, Jonathan Schoop, Hensley Meulens and Randall Simon are other players present or past who emerged from that land with a population of roughly 150,000 people to play in MLB.

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But here’s a question that often sticks with Jansen: Where are all the pitchers from his homeland?

Other than Jair Jurrjens, who had an eight-year career and was an All-Star in 2011, there haven’t been any notable Major League pitchers to come from Curaçao.

“Just me and Jair came from Curaçao. Then, from Aruba, you’ve got Sidney Ponson and Calvin Maduro,” Jansen said.

The big righty has a plan to help reverse this trend when he’s done playing. Mind you, that might not be for a while. After picking up his 400th save in May, the 35-year-old made it clear that he intends to pitch for several more seasons.

Once Jansen is done pitching, he plans on holding pitching clinics in Curaçao.

“Definitely when I’m retired, I’m going to open up a camp for pitching,” Jansen said. “I see a lot of players who also try to be position players and have a really good arm. But they want to be like an Ozzie, they want to be like Profar, they want to be like a Jonathan or an Andrelton Simmons.

“And sometimes it doesn't work that way. You know as much as guys [from Curaçao] are in the big leagues, a lot of guys U-turn back home. I do believe there’s a lot of talent out there, including pitching. It’s just a matter of how you are going to address it and go about it.

"Realistically with me pitching right now, I don't have time for that. I can’t do it now or develop that.”

Jansen sees the gap that needs to be filled.

“When you see Little League baseball, you see great arms coming out from Curaçao,” he said. “But from the ages of 13 to 16, the development falls way behind the United States and the Dominican and Venezuela and all of those other places.”

Jansen sees what Hensley “Bam Bam” Meulens has done for position players in Curaçao and wonders if that is a template for him with pitchers.

“They have a really good one in Bam Bam as a hitting coach, but that’s what I’m saying, they don’t have a pitcher like that,” Jansen said. “Bam Bam is doing a great job of bringing clinics down there, former players are doing great with their camp down there and stuff like that. But I feel like the pitching is missing.”

Jansen -- who went to the United States as a catcher before the Dodgers smartly converted him to a pitcher roughly five years later -- knows he can’t do it alone.

“It’s not just me. Bring more experts from out here in the States, bring them down and do camps,” Jansen said. “Start developing. Sometimes I can see things but scouts might have better eyes than I do and say, ‘that kid should try pitching.”’

One day when Jansen is no longer playing, he envisions seeing another pitcher from Curaçao tipping his cap at the Midsummer Classic.

“That’s the dream,” Jansen said. “Every kid from Curaçao hopes they can accomplish their dream and it’s hard.”

Jansen, once he is done fulfilling his own dreams, hopes to make it more realistic.