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.
Read MoreFormer big leaguer and all-star storyteller Tim Harkness (Lachine, Que.) has passed away at the age of 87. Bob Elliott shares his memories of Harkness.
Read MoreElliott: RHP Parker Burgess will head to Charleston
Read More“The Toronto Blue Jays have signed free-agent RHP Dylan Cease to a seven-year, $210 million deal. Super agent Scott Boras called it — 11 years ago.” Bob Elliott shares an article he wrote after interviewing Boras in 2014.
Read More“What’s better than meeting Toronto Blue Jays 1B Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. for a private audience?
How about a 2-on-1 meeting with his Hall of Fame father, by the same name?”
Read More“Under the major league’s new recovery program, scouts can’t observe high school players from Oct. 15, 2025 to Jan. 15, 2026 during indoor winter sessions. The same goes for evaluating college players in the USA, at the University of British Columbia and Douglas College from Nov. 15, 2025, to Jan. 15, 2026.”
Read MoreBob Elliott catches up with 2025 Canadian Baseball Network Murray Zuk Award winner, as top Canadian offensive player in the unaffiliated ranks, Mathieu Vallée (Saint-Eustache, Que.) who set a Frontier League record when he stole 83 bases for the Trois-Rivières Aigles this season.
Read MoreDavid Calabrese no longer stands alone.
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim selected the former Ontario Blue Jays OF Calabrese (Maple, Ont.) in the third round of the 2020 draft and gave him a signing bonus of $744,200.
For as long as we have been tracking six-figure signing bonuses given to Canadians, Calabrese was the only Canuck the Angels had deemed worthy of a $100,000 or more bonus.
So, the Angels sat 27th of 30 teams in giving out cold, hard cash -- or giant-sized checks -- to Canucks. That all changed in July. The Angels drafted RHP Tyler Bremner second overall in North America from the Santa Barbara Gauchos and gave him a $7,689,525 bonus.
Read MoreElliott: Curro, Gordon, OBA's best of best, HOFers Bertoia, Humber, McKenzie, Waffle
Read MoreBob Elliott remembers his longtime friend and Toronto Sun colleague Bill Lankhof who passed away on Thursday at the age of 72 after battling ALS.
Read MoreThe stats for the players voted to the 2025 Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian College teams, as well as those that received Honourable Mentions.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement was a huge reason the Toronto Blue Jays almost won the World Series. But who can the gritty infielder be compared to?
Read MoreThe Canadian Baseball Network is proud to announce its 2025 CBN All-Canadian College First Team.
Read MoreA Blue Jays fans since middle school, Adeel Ahmad vowed he would be at Rogers Centre if his team ever made the World Series again. So, he flew from Korea to Toronto and back to Korea for Game 1.
Read MoreABC and Houston Cougars alum Antoine Jean (Montreal, Que.) has been named the 2025 Canadian Baseball Network College Player of the Year
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays’ World Series Game 1 starter Trey Yesavage and closer Jeff Hoffman are East Carolina University graduates. They share their East Carolina pride with national team alum and current Fieldhouse Pirates coach Lee Delfino. Bob Elliott has the story, as well as the details about the Blue Jays’ 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.
Read MoreBob Elliott catches up with former Houston Astros GM Ed Wade and former Astros scouting director Bobby Heck who selected George Springer in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft.
Read MoreThirty-two years ago today, Toronto Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter belted the second walk-off, World Series-winning home run in major league history. It’s an unforgettable moment in Canadian baseball history - one that wouldn’t have happened, as Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott recounts in this 2015 article, if Carter had signed with the Kansas City Royals, as the outfielder almost did at the 1992 winter meetings.
Read MoreBob Elliott spoke with several of the Toronto Blue Jays players from the 1992 and 1993 World Series-winning teams during the game last night in which the current Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 to advance to this year’s Fall Classic.
Read MoreWe are proud to unveil the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2025 All-Canadian College Second Team.
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