The best 17 and under players in the country will be on display for the seven-day Canada Summer Games which finished with bronze and gold medal match-ups set for Shaw Park on Friday, Aug. 4th. British Columbia enters the event as the defending champions after having won gold at the most recent Canada Games in 2013 in Sherbrooke, Québec.
Read MoreRight-hander Jesen Therrien (Montreal, Que.) was called up by the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday. He is set to become the eighth Canadian to play in the majors this season. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette has the details.
Read MoreMonday represented the 50th anniversary of the first game played by the Canadian National Baseball Team. In that Pan Am Games contest in Winnipeg, Canada was defeated 3-1 by Mexico. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette recently caught up with Erwin Doerkson (Eston, Sask.), who was a catcher on that squad, to discuss his memories of that historic team.
Read MoreOn Saturday, the Seattle Mariners dealt top prospect and Maple Ridge, B.C., native Tyler O'Neill to the St. Louis Cardinals for left-handed pitcher Marco Gonzales. Canadian Baseball Network writer Andrew Hendriks has more on the trade.
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Cardinals Carson Kelly was a Canadian peewee champ at the Baseball Canada nationals in 2007 in Quebec City.
Read MoreThe 2017 WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup in Thunder Bay is 50 days away with 12 nations, including host Canada, set to compete for a world title from September 1 to 10.
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Toronto Blue Jays Youth Day is scheduled for Wednesday Aug. 30, prior to the opening day of the U18 World Cup. A number of clinics will be run by the Toronto Blue Jays organization and will include joint Jays Care and Toronto Blue Jays Academy programs in association with the Boys and Girls Club of Thunder Bay, Challenger Baseball and Toronto Blue Jays Instructional Clinic.
Read MoreCanadians Josh Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.), Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.) and Mike Soroka (Calgary, Alta.), all Junior National Team alums, have been named to the “World Roster” for the annual SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, which will be played on Sunday, July 9 (4 p.m. ET) at Marlins Park in Miami as part of Major League Baseball’s All-Star weekend.
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SS Sean Jamieson decided to hang 'em up. The decision wasn’t an easy one after 584 pro games two surgeries and a gold medal at the Pan Am Games in Ajax in 2015.
Read MoreRoy Halladay and Vladimir Guerrero may have been bigger names on the stage at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in St. Marys, Ont., on Saturday, but no one has had a greater influence on baseball at the grassroots level in Canada over the past two decades than fellow 2017 inductee Ray Carter.
Read MoreThe Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame is set to induct its 2017 class on Saturday in St. Marys, Ont. This year's inductees will include longtime Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay, former Montreal Expos slugger Vladimir Guerrero, long-serving Baseball Canada president Ray Carter, late trailblazing umpire Doug Hudlin and Canada's Senior National Team that captured gold at the 2015 Pan Am Games.
Read MoreA pair of Junior National Team alums, Zach Pop (Brampton, Ont.) and Daniel Procopio (Toronto, Ont.), were the lone Canadians selected on day two of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, bringing the two-day total to four Canadians chosen through the first 10 rounds. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette has the details.
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RHP Adam Leach (Pickering, Ont.) and INF Adam Hall (London, Ont.) were both second-round picks. Leach, of the Toronto Mets, was selected by the Minneosta Twins, while Hall of the Great Lake Canadians was chosen by the Baltimore Orioles.
Read MoreBaseball Canada's 2017 draft primer has what you need to know heading into this year's MLB draft from a Canadian perspective.
Read MoreThe World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has announced the schedule for the U-18 Baseball World Cup that will take place in Thunder Bay, Ont., from September 1 to 10. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette has the details.
Read MoreAfter losing the first three games of the Dominican Summer League tour, the Junior National Team have since gone 6-2-2 including today’s 9-6 win over the DSL Twins. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette provides the game information.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team played their fourth doubleheader in nine days on Friday and came away with a 6-5 win over the DSL Rays in the front end before playing to a 3-3 draw with the DSL Dodgers in the back end. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette provides the game information.
Read MoreMichael Stovman (Maple Ridge, B.C.) drove in five runs on a pair of doubles to lead the Junior National Team to a 15-2 blowout win over MLB Prospect League on Thursday. Baseball Canada's Adam Morissette has the game information.
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