Latin America continues to be a baseball talent hotbed as well as a source of investment for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Vice-president Andrew Tinnish along with Sandy Rosario, director of Latin American operations, his assistant directors Harry Einbinder and Francisco Plasencia, plus cross checker Lorenzo Perez, added four signing bonuses of $200,000 or more led by Venezuelan C Juan Caricote, who was given a $1.95 million signing bonus.
Read MoreThere is a new name atop the list of Canadians on our all-time list of MLB draft signing bonuses.
In fact, five Canadians who signed last July now rank among the top 30 since we started tracking six-figure bonuses for Canucks.
Read MoreFormer Pickering, Scarborough, North York and West Hill coach Al Boyle passed away Dec. 19, 2025. As a tribute, we have resurrected this story we published about him in 2004.
Read MoreBack in 2014, former Los Angeles Dodgers executive Ned Colletti shared with Bob Elliott why Jean Béliveau was his favourite athlete from any sport.
Read MoreIf the name Logan Allen is not known in households from New Westminster or Etobicoke, it is with good reason. He will make his debut wearing red and white at this year’s World Baseball Classic. You see the left-hander’s father Norman, grew up in Lachine, Que. playing hockey before moving to University of Florida, home of the Gators.
Read MoreBob Elliott remembers former Dodgers and Mets scout Claude Pelletier who passed away on Sunday at the age of 88.
Read MoreElliott: Griffin CBN Scout of the Year winner
Read MoreThis story has been among our top 10 reads every year — and it was 10 years old in June. It will make its 10th appearance when we run our 10 most popular reads from 2025.
It’s not that well written, but it’s been well read.
We run it again to honour Naylor winning his second Tip O’Neill award, presented by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Marys.
Read MoreFormer big leaguer and all-star storyteller Tim Harkness (Lachine, Que.) has passed away at the age of 87. Bob Elliott shares his memories of Harkness.
Read MoreElliott: RHP Parker Burgess will head to Charleston
Read More“The Toronto Blue Jays have signed free-agent RHP Dylan Cease to a seven-year, $210 million deal. Super agent Scott Boras called it — 11 years ago.” Bob Elliott shares an article he wrote after interviewing Boras in 2014.
Read More“What’s better than meeting Toronto Blue Jays 1B Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. for a private audience?
How about a 2-on-1 meeting with his Hall of Fame father, by the same name?”
Read More“Under the major league’s new recovery program, scouts can’t observe high school players from Oct. 15, 2025 to Jan. 15, 2026 during indoor winter sessions. The same goes for evaluating college players in the USA, at the University of British Columbia and Douglas College from Nov. 15, 2025, to Jan. 15, 2026.”
Read MoreBob Elliott catches up with 2025 Canadian Baseball Network Murray Zuk Award winner, as top Canadian offensive player in the unaffiliated ranks, Mathieu Vallée (Saint-Eustache, Que.) who set a Frontier League record when he stole 83 bases for the Trois-Rivières Aigles this season.
Read MoreDavid Calabrese no longer stands alone.
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim selected the former Ontario Blue Jays OF Calabrese (Maple, Ont.) in the third round of the 2020 draft and gave him a signing bonus of $744,200.
For as long as we have been tracking six-figure signing bonuses given to Canadians, Calabrese was the only Canuck the Angels had deemed worthy of a $100,000 or more bonus.
So, the Angels sat 27th of 30 teams in giving out cold, hard cash -- or giant-sized checks -- to Canucks. That all changed in July. The Angels drafted RHP Tyler Bremner second overall in North America from the Santa Barbara Gauchos and gave him a $7,689,525 bonus.
Read MoreElliott: Curro, Gordon, OBA's best of best, HOFers Bertoia, Humber, McKenzie, Waffle
Read MoreBob Elliott remembers his longtime friend and Toronto Sun colleague Bill Lankhof who passed away on Thursday at the age of 72 after battling ALS.
Read MoreThe stats for the players voted to the 2025 Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian College teams, as well as those that received Honourable Mentions.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement was a huge reason the Toronto Blue Jays almost won the World Series. But who can the gritty infielder be compared to?
Read MoreThe Canadian Baseball Network is proud to announce its 2025 CBN All-Canadian College First Team.
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