The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired right-hander Chase Lee from the Detroit Tigers.
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Baseball Canada has shared its list of finalized host sites and dates for several Women’s National Championship events beginning in 2026.
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Rogers Communications have agreed to a five-year contract extension with Toronto Blue Jays president & CEO Mark Shapiro.
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“He’s a Canadian baseball legend and a former National League batting champ, but Justin Morneau did a double take when he was asked to be the face of an exciting new national championship tournament.
Greg Hamilton – Baseball Canada’s director of national teams and head coach of the Junior National Team – approached the two-time Silver Slugger Award winner to see if he would lend his name to the top prize being handed out at The Road to Okotoks event.
“My first thought is, did Larry Walker turn it down?” said Morneau in downplaying his own impressive career and giving a nod to fellow British Columbian Walker, who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020.”
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Canadians Archer Brookman (Pointe-Claire, Que.) and Matt Lloyd (Okotoks, Alta.) were selected in the Minor League Phase of the Rule 5 draft on Wednesday.
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The Victoria HarbourCats have signed Canadians Jai Berezowski (Victoria, B.C.) and Garen Geoghegan (Victoria, B.C.) for the 2026 season.
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The Winnipeg Goldeyes have signed left-hander Quinn Waterhouse.
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The Philadelphia Phillies have signed manager Rob Thomson (Corunna, Ont.) to a contract extension through the 2027 season.
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“Left-hander Sean Duncan is one of the busiest high school players in Canada.
Between playing for the Langley Blaze, the Brewers, the Junior National Team, and in various tournaments and showcases on both sides of the border, Duncan (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) is always toeing the rubber, and it seems that the MLB Draft community is taking notice.
This past weekend, MLB Pipeline released its Top 100 Draft prospects for the 2026 MLB draft, and Duncan found himself being the top-ranked Canadian at #77. “
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“Hydrologists worry about 2030. So do climate scientists. Some baseball teams do, too, but generally they’re the ones who are trying to placate their fans. There’s nothing more self-indulgent than talking about the Five Year Plan when you’re 60-102 and you’re still charging eight bucks for hot dogs.
The Phillies aren’t worried about 2030. They proved it on Tuesday when they kept Kyle Schwarber, the 32-year-old king of the Three True Outcomes. Although Cincinnati, Baltimore and Pittsburgh tried to bid high for Schwarber, the Phillies put up $150 million over five years. They had little choice. Not only is Schwarber probably the most popular Phillie since Chase Utley, he’s refining the few things he does well. “
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Paul Hoynes, 74, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and then Cleveland.com, won the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Platinum Pen Award (renamed from Career Excellence Award) Tuesday in Orlando at the annual winter meetings. One other writer from Kingston, Ont,. was the first Canadian to win the award — but we forget his name. There could be more on the horizon: Richard Griffin (Kingston, Jamaica) and Jeff Blair (Kingston, Ont.). Last year, Patrick Kennedy wrote about Hoynes’ Canadian grandfather.
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“Pitch long and prosper.
That might be the advice that Spock would offer young right-hander Jonah Tong.
You can picture the beloved Star Trek character following up these words with his Vulcan salute – his famous hand gesture in which his fingers (parted between the middle and ring fingers) are split into a V.
And Spock would likely be flattered that this gesture has inspired Tong’s best pitch – his “Vulcan changeup.”
It’s a pitch that helped Tong (Markham, Ont.) top all minor leaguers in strikeouts (179), ERA (1.43) and opponents’ batting average against (.148) in 2025.
It also earned him his first big league call-up from the New York Mets in late August, as well as the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2025 Wayne Norton Award, as the top Canuck minor league pitcher in the affiliated ranks. “
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The Ottawa Titans have re-signed utility player Taylor Wright (North Vancouver, B.C.).
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher shares that it was Canadian scout Wayne Morgan (Kindersley, Sask.) that signed Jeff Kent for the Toronto Blue Jays back in 1989.
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Right-hander Michael Soroka (Calgary, Alta.) has signed a one-year, $7.5-million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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The Winnipeg Goldeyes have re-signed 2025 team MVP Ramón Bramasco.
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The Kitchener Panthers have re-signed import outfielder Yosvani Penalver.
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Former Toronto Blue Jays infielder Jeff Kent has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Hall’s Contemporary Era Committee.
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This story has been among our top 10 reads every year — and it was 10 years old in June. It will make its 10th appearance when we run our 10 most popular reads from 2025.
It’s not that well written, but it’s been well read.
We run it again to honour Naylor winning his second Tip O’Neill award, presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Carlos Delgado, Paul Molitor, Fergie Jenkins, Matt Stairs, Terry Puhl and Larry Walker.
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