“Ryan McDonagh’s goal when he boarded a plane from to Phoenix on March 16?
“Improve my stock for this year’s draft,” said McDonagh from Surprise, Ariz. this week.
Well, McDonagh won’t hear his name called on July 13 -- unless it is over a loudspeaker as the P.A. announcer says:
“Now pitching for youuuuur Surprise Royals ... No. 63 ... Ryan McDonagh.”
Read MoreHere it is. Our 2024 list of the 135 most influential Canadians in baseball.
Read MoreThe Ontario Blue Jays and ABC are tied for the most players from a Canadian organization on this year’s Rawlings PG Regional Pre-season All-Americans list.
Read MoreBefore Canadian sandlot teams headed south for March break -- to strut their stuff in front of recruiters and pro scouts -- they continued their indoor winter workouts. Bob Elliott summarizes what players showed well at their winter workouts in front of scouts.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays manager of player personnel Jon Lalonde (Midland, Ont.) has been named the 2024 Canadian Baseball Network Scout of the Year.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 74th annual Conn Smythe Dinner, a fundraiser for Easter Seals held on February 26.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays’ 2024 first-round pick Trey Yesavage was given a $4.18 million signing bonus by the club. That’s the third highest in franchise history. Bob Elliott has a rundown of the top Blue Jays’ draft signing bonuses.
Read MoreFieldhouse Pirates alum and Chicago Cubs outfield prospect Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.) is the winner of the Canadian Baseball Network’s Randall Echlin award, handed out each year to the top Canuck hitter in affiliated ball.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays P.R. executive Mal Romanin has teamed with a silent partner to bring a summer collegiate franchise to St. Catharines, Ont., that will compete in the Perfect Game League. The team, the Niagara Ironjacks, unveiled its first player signing at a press conference on Wednesday.
Read MoreFive Canadian college players -- three pitchers -- are ranked amongst the top 250 top prospects on DIBaseball.com for this July’s draft.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott remember legendary scout Claude Pelletier to name his all-Quebec team.
Read MoreJim Horton, Mr. Everything for the Martingove White Sox and a lifetime member, passed away on February 6 at the age of 76.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs trainer Savannah Blakley and team photographer Angela Burger saved Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott’s life at the Okotoks Dawgs annual awards banquet on February 2, 2019. Bob wrote this piece as a tribute to them back in March 2019.
Read More“The sun rose at 7:34 a.m. Saturday morning in Mississauga.
And within an hour Canadian baseball was edging towards sandlot history.
Now, not one, not two, but three Ontario Blue Jays right-handers have now lit up radar guns at 95 MPH.”
Read MoreBob Elliott shares the story he wrote about Ichiro Suzuki’s first game at SkyDome against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Read MoreBob Elliott shares memories of Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker who passed away on Thursday at the age of 90.
Read MoreTrkulja headed to St. Bonaventure
Read MoreOntario Blue Jays and Junior National Team alum Josh Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) had a good reason for missing the Baseball Canada Awards Banquet on Saturday, writes Bob Elliott. Naylor was on his honeymoon.
Read MoreRoffle ready to ruffle feathers with Conquistadors
Read MoreToday would’ve been Toronto Blue Jays legendary and much-loved coach John Sullivan’s 84th birthday. We thought we would re-run this article that Bob Elliott wrote about Sullivan the day after Sullivan passed away in 2023.
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