Baseball Canada has shared the list of Canadians who have been selected as officials by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) for various Baseball World Cup events in 2019.
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Canadians Russell Martin, Tyler O’Neill, James Paxton, Nick Pivetta, Dalton Pompey and Joey Votto make-up the six Canadians on Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day rosters with the 2019 season set to begin today.
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Dasan Brown (Oakville, Ont.) drilled a home run in the sixth inning and TJ Schofield-Sam (Brampton, Ont.) drove in two runs in the third inning to highlight the Junior National Team’s annual trip to Dunedin to face Canada’s only big league baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays.
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With the annual split-squad contest against the Toronto Blue Jays looming, the Junior National Team wrapped up play at the Walter Fuller Complex on Friday and defeated a prospects squad from the Detroit Tigers’ organization, 5-4.
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JNT spring: Owen Diodati, Ryan Leitch, Ayden Makarus go for extra base hits against Yankees, while Mitch Robinson (Surrey, BC) went deep for the Pin-Striped Prospects.
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The Tampa Bay Rays sent some of their top prospects to play the Junior National Team on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla., and they proved their worth coming away with a 10-1 win at the Walter Fuller Complex, the former spring training home of the big league organization.
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Former Junior National Team star Adam Hall (London, ON) headlined a Baltimore Orioles’ prospects squad that took on the current version of the national team today at the Walter Fuller Complex, and it was Hall and the Orioles who prevailed, 9-5.
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A Philadelphia Phillies prospects squad featuring Canadian baseball legends Ernie Whitt and Rob Ducey on the coaching staff paid a visit to the Walter Fuller Complex to take on the Junior National Team and came away with a 6-0 win.
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After a long winter training indoors, the Junior National Team opened their spring training schedule against the Fort Lauderdale Stars and suffered a 14-2 loss to their professional counterparts. Noah Hull’s (Toronto, Ont.) solo home run in the sixth stood as a bright spot offensively as the Junior National Team mustered just five hits.
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They began their careers on the Women’s National Team together back in 2004 so it’s only fitting that they finish together, too. After 15 seasons with the program, that has included participation in all eight Women’s Baseball World Cups and the 2015 Pan American Games, Kate Psota (Burlington, Ont.) and Ashley Stephenson (Mississauga, Ont.) are retiring as players from the Women’s National Team.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Scott Langdon discusses the merger of “corporate speak” and baseball with Canadian National Women’s general manager Andre Lachance.
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Baseball Canada has announced the names of the 31 athletes that have been invited to the Junior National Team’s (U-18) annual Spring Training Camp at the Walter Fuller Complex in St. Petersburg, Fla. from March 14-23.
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Women’s National Team athletes Liz Gilder (Port Moody, BC) and Alli Schroder (Fruitvale, BC) were among eight Canadians announced by Major League Baseball to attend ‘MLB Grit’, an inaugural high school invitational designed specifically for girls who play baseball.
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“She is as talented as she is tenacious. That would be a succinct way to describe Alexis Brudnicki, who has been the Canadian Baseball Network’s most prolific writer over the past eight years. In the modern sportswriting landscape, where churning out copy at lightning speed has become the expectation, I sometimes fear there’s too much emphasis on quantity over quality. With Alexis, we, at CBN, were spoiled, we got both – quality and quantity. In case you haven’t heard, Alexis is moving on from CBN to start a job as a reporter/producer for MLB Advanced Media based in Toronto. And while we’re very proud of her and walking taller around the website’s headquarters in Mississauga and London, we sure will miss her.”
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Canada’s journey to securing a spot in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will begin in Seoul, Korea this November. On Wednesday, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) announced the three opening round groups and host locations for II WBSC Premier12 event that will be staged from November 2-17, 2019.
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Twenty-seven athletes will escape the cold and head south to Cuba this weekend for Baseball Canada’s 10th annual Girls Baseball Development Camp, combining a baseball and cultural experience that is second to none.
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Okotoks, Alberta will step on to the national baseball stage this upcoming summer. The Okotoks Dawgs announced on Tuesday that Okotoks, Alberta has been named as the host city for the 2019 Baseball Canada National Women’s Championship, which will take place this July 4-7.
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This is the fifth and final story in a five-part series by Canadian Baseball Network contributor Scott Langdon called A Sport of Their Own that discusses girls’ and women’s baseball in Canada. This article shines the spotlight on some movers and shakers in Canadian women’s baseball.
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This is the fourth story in a five-part series by Canadian Baseball Network contributor Scott Langdon called A Sport of Their Own that discusses girls’ and women’s baseball in Canada. This article shines the spotlight on Canada’s women’s baseball coaches and umpires.
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A message and an update from Canadian Baseball Network founder Bob Elliott.
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