Baseball Canada shares their list of Canadian connections in the MLB playoffs.
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Canadian Baseball Network lead writer Matt Betts takes a look at who might be on Canada’s roster at the next World Baseball Classic which is set to take place in March.
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Columnist Mark Whicker shares his opinion on the Atlanta Braves’ recent contract extension with 21-year-old outfielder Michael Harris and discusses how Alex Anthopoulos (Montreal, Que.) has assembled a Braves’ roster that is set up to be a contender for many years to come.
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Joey Votto’s march toward 2,000 games played in the majors has been stalled by season-ending rotator-cuff surgery, but this is an occasion to pay tribute to one of the people who helped get him to where he is now — his Etobicoke Rangers coach Bob Smyth. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher recently caught up with Smyth.
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Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto is set to play his 1,989th major league game on Sunday, which will break Maple Ridge, B.C., native Larry Walker’s record for most games played by a Canadian.
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Melville, Sask., native Terry Puhl will be inducted into the Houston Astros Hall of Fame on Saturday.
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Infielder Charles Leblanc (Laval, Que.) made his MLB debut with the Miami Marlins on Saturday. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher recently caught up with the latest Canadian big leaguer to talk about the 26-year-old’s long trek to The Show.
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With his 24th save of the 2022 campaign on Sunday, Toronto Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano (Markham, Ont.) broke the record he shared with ex-Montreal Expos reliever Claude Raymond (St. Jean, Que.) for most saves in a season by a Canadian pitcher for a Canadian major league team.
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The Miami Marlins have called up INF/OF Charles Leblanc (Laval, Que.). He will join fellow Canuck Zach Pop on the Marlins’ roster.
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“Matt Stairs must feel at home in Alberta.
The former big league slugger, who was at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks, Alta., as a special guest at the Western Canadian Baseball League’s All-Star Game on Saturday, has a brother that lives in Calgary and he and his wife, Lisa, were staying with his ex-sister-in-law in Okotoks.
It was also in Alberta with the Oakland A’s triple-A Edmonton Trappers in 1996 that Stairs turned his professional baseball career around. At age 28, after seven seasons in the minors with only short stretches of big league action, he decided to open up his batting stance.”
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St. Thomas, Ont., native Jack Graney will be honoured posthumously with the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2022 Ford C. Frick Award in a ceremony on July 23 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Elliott: 2022 Draft Blog, Day III
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“For “Junior” it was to be his first game coaching on a Kingston ball diamond in more than 40 years. That’s quite a break between games at a familiar playground for hometown boy Bob Elliott, who long ago outgrew the nickname he earned in his youth as the namesake son of a local sporting hero. (“Niblet,” too, is all but forgotten, although Elliott is known to answer to “Knobber” when in the company of guys who played for him back in the day.)”
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With the 2022 MLB draft set to begin Sunday, Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew offers some fun facts and firsts about Canadians in previous drafts.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses John Axford, Tyler O’Neill, Joey Votto, Josh Naylor, Andre Dawson, Danny Klassen and Denis Boucher.
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Happy Canada Day!
As has become a tradition on the Canadian Baseball Network, editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shares his annual all-Canadian lineup. This is his 22nd edition of the team.
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As Father’s Day gifts go, seeing your son become a Hall of Famer has to rank right up there.
“This is obviously the pinnacle of his career to be elected to a prestigious place like this. I mean, it’s amazing,” Mike Francis said before watching his son, Jeff, process out of the VIP tent and onto the stage at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in St. Marys, Ont., on Saturday.
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Cincinnati Reds slugger Joey Votto (Etobicoke, Ont.) recorded his 800th major league extra-base hit on Monday to become just the second Canadian to reach that milestone. Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, B.C.) was the first.
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The Philadelphia Phillies have fired manager Joe Girardi and have named Canadian Rob Thomson as their interim dugout boss for the remainder of the 2022 season.
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Montreal native Russell Martin is set to officially announce his retirement.
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