“The uniform colour black is in at the Okotoks Dawgs Academy.

There are different teams of different colors but the one all teenagers want to wear is the Vanderbilt Commodores-style black uniforms.

There is a Dawgs Red team, a Dawgs White team, but THE most desired team is Dawgs Black.

So, how to explain the Okotoks Dawgs starting catcher on Friday night against the Lethbridge Bulls at Spitz Stadium?

Jacob Wrubleski played eight years at the Dawgs Academy. Only in his final year did he wear black. He wore red normally or white the other seven years.”

Seven Canadians were on the rosters as season kicked off in the six-team MLB Draft League.

Elliott, CPBL Showcase Day IV: Bigras, Gravelle, Hughes, Scott

Elliott, CPBL Showcase Day II: Jacob, Kwinter, Lessard, Sikkema

Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shines the spotlight on four of the players participating in the CPBL Showcase in Dorchester, Ont., this weekend.

“At the moment, Jake Hanley is a two-way man.

His fastball has been clocked at 95 mph for his William Mason High School Comets in Mason, Ohio, north of Cincinnati. And the 6-foot-5, 232-pounder shows power at the plate.

Besides being a two-way man on the field, thanks to his father Todd Haney, of Dartmouth, N.S., he’s a man of two countries too.”

OF Mac Galvin (Calgary, Alta.) is the most recent winner of the Canadian Baseball Network Okotoks Dawgs’ scholarship award.

Who are some of the top draft prospects from the academies across Canada?

Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shares what he has heard.

“Last August when scouts began evaluating Canadians for the 2024 draft, two names were atop the list:

Brendan Lawson and Dante Nori.

And they still are.

Both Lawson (Toronto, Ont.), a former Ontario Blue Jay, and Nori (Toronto, Ont.) earned spots on the annual Rawlings-Perfect Game Preseason All-American teams.”