“Dylan O’Rae shot up the draft board faster than he goes first to third on a single through the right side.
And anyone who has seen the young infielder play, knows just how fast that is.
Thanks to the keen eye of scout and Canadian baseball legend Pete Orr (Newmarket, Ont.), the Milwaukee Brewers scooped up the Great Lake Canadian with their third round pick, 102nd overall in the 2022 draft. This made him the first Canadian selected.”
Read MoreSix more Canadians were selected on the final day of the MLB draft on Tuesday.
Read MoreFive members of the Canadian Junior National were selected on the second day of the MLB draft.
Read MoreJunior National Team alum and Oakland A’s prospect Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) has been selected to play in the MLB Futures Game.
Read MoreCanada will be in Pool C in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. They will start the tournament at Chase Field in Arizona and compete in a pool against defending champion USA, Colombia, Mexico and a team to be determined from March 11 to 15.
Read MoreFormer Women’s National Team star Ashley Stephenson will manage Team Canada at the upcoming Friendship Series against the United States with current manager Aaron Myette unable to participate due to personal reasons.
Read MoreBaseball Canada is accepting bids to host 2024 National Championships until September 30, 2022.
Read MoreBaseball Canada’s annual Junior National Team MVP Award has been remained in honour of Russell Martin (Montreal, Que.).
Read MoreIt could be called Canada’s first junior national team, and Bob Davisson, then a naïve, 16-year-old left-hander from Oakbank, Man., was part of it.
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently spoke with Davisson about that trailblazing squad of 14 teenagers, selected from four provinces, that travelled to Cuba in September 1964 to compete in the World Junior Amateur Baseball Championships.
Read MoreBaseball Canada and the Thunder Bay International Baseball Association (TBIBA) are pleased to announce the game schedule for the five-game, Canada vs USA Women’s Baseball Friendship Series that is set to take place in Thunder Bay, Ont., from July 28 to August 1.
Read MoreThe Phillies waited until the ninth inning to get their offence going including a two-run homer and scored three times in the frame to hand the Junior National Team a 3-2 loss.
Read MoreFor the first time since 2019 the best 17U players from 10 provinces will gather for a national championship tournament. Typically known as the Canada Cup, this year the tournament will be part of the Canada Summer Games being held in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Read MoreWhite Rock Tritons right-hander Chase Marshall (Surrey, BC) fired five scoreless innings, but the New York Yankees prospects scored to go ahead run in the top of the ninth to come away with a narrow, 2-1 win.
Read MoreThe New York Yankees FCL club took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth before the skies opened up cancelling the remainder of the game as they handed the Junior National Team a rain shortened defeat.
Read MoreIn the first game of the Junior National Team Pre-Draft Training camp, on Tuesday, Reece Usselman (Langley, BC) and Kaleb Thomas (Hagersville, Ont.) limited the Philadelphia Phillies Florida Complex League (FCL) squad to just one run while Cameron Chee-Aloy (Toronto, Ont.) belted a home run as part of a 3-for-5 game at the plate to lead the juniors to a 7-1 win.
Read MoreBaseball Canada has announced the names of the 30 athletes who’ve been invited to attend the Junior National Team’s Pre-MLB Draft Training Camp based in Dunedin, Fla., from May 31 to June 11.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team out-hit the Philadelphia Phillies DSL team seven to six, but it wasn't enough in a 5-3 loss on Saturday morning in the last match-up of the 2022 Dominican Professional Academy Camp.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team out-hit the San Francisco Giants DSL squad six to four, but it wasn't enough in a 6-3 loss on Friday morning in the first game of a doubleheader.
Read MoreNothing came easy for the Junior National Team on Thursday, as they fell 12-5 to the Boston Red Sox DSL squad.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team had a tough time defensively containing the Kansas City Royals DSL on Wednesday and lost 7-1.
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