After Andrew Yerzy’s first season of professional baseball and his final tour with Team Canada, the former Toronto Mets catcher was recognized for his success in the red-and-white uniform in January, receiving the Junior National Team Most Valuable Player Award at Baseball Canada’s National Teams Awards Banquet and Fundraiser.
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Jose Bautista is playing in the WBC for the Dominican, Marco Estrada and Roberto Osuna are with Mexico, Marcus Stroman and J.A. Happ with USA, while Shane Dawson (Drayton Valley, Alta.) and Dalton Pompey (Mississauga, Ont.) are with Canada, Leonel Campos is with Venezuela
Jake Fisherman withh Israel and Jordan Romanao with Italy ... but no Russell Martin
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It was announced Sunday that the 2015 Pan Am Games gold medal winning squad along with former Baseball Canada President Ray Carter would be enshrined as part of the 2017 induction class.
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Canucks on the move: Luke Carlin (Aylmer, Que.), Jimmy Henderson (Calgary, Alta.), Evan Rutckyj (Windsor, Ont.) and Scott Thorman (Cambridge, Ont.)
Read MoreJordan Procyshen spent much of the 2016 season catching Michael Kopech’s 100 mile per hour fastball in Salem, Virginia. Now he's headed to major-league camp.
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Released last June by the Miami Marlins Maxx Tissenbaum signed with the Quebec Capitales hit over .400 his first month. Overall, he batted .326 with an OBP of .833 and the Colorado Rockies scoped him up for their organization.
Read MoreActing as a precursor to spring training’s grand arrival next month, MLB Pipeline released its pre-season listing of the top 100 prospects in affiliated baseball on Saturday.
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RHPs Ryan Dempster (Gibsons, BC) and Eric Gagne (Mascouche, Que.), plus INF Pete Orr (Newmarrket, Ont.) will come out of retirement to play for Canada in the World Baseball Classic. Dempster worked magic at the Baseball Canada banquet.
Read MoreNick Pivetta will get his first shot at wearing his country’s colours at the senior level this spring, when the native of Victoria, BC suits up for Team Canada at the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
Read MoreAs February approached last year, Eric Wood was trying to get back to the basics of baseball, coming off of a less-than-ideal season, as we head into 2017 it's a different story.
Read MoreA list of current and former big leaguers took part in the festivities Saturday evening as the 15th annual National Teams Awards Banquet and Fundraiser took place at the Renaissance Toronto Downtown.
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3B Jamie Romak (London, Ont.) says that the fourth annual World Baseball Classic is the highest stage" to play on." The London Badgers grad has signed a contract with the San Diego Padres.
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Maxx Tissenbaum was at a ball park. Nothing new there ... except he was there this week at Fenway to see his sis Molly Tissenbaum tend the twine for Harvard.
Read MoreBuilt atop an old diamond adjacent to Merriton High school in the cities west end, St. Catharines Community Park serves both as a reminder of the New York-Penn league’s brief but successful renaissance in the Great White North, and an interesting footnote in the history of Canadian baseball.
Read MoreSmith, 72, died Jan. 2 in Cambridge, Ont. and is best remembered as a career NHL assistant coach, but he was a heck of a ballplayer too.
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LHP Andrew Albers (North Battleford, Sask.) was with the Minnesota Twins in 2016 has signed a free agent contract with the Atlanta Braves.
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For a second time 1B Joey Votto (Etobicoke, Ont.) is the most influential Canadian in baseball in this our 10th annual ranking of the top 100.
Read MoreNew Brunswick's Vincent Churchill McIntyre was, in fact, the first Canuck to officially break the colour barrier when he suited up for the Class-C Sherbrooke Canadians of the Border league on June 1st, 1946.
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As the Winter Meetings drew to a close C Maxx Tissenbaum had some news, signeing to officially become a member of the Colorado Rockies organization. The former Toronto Mets and Stony Brook Seawolves INF spent this season with the Quebec Capitales.
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RHP Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.) went eighth over all in North America to the San Diego Padres. The former Ontario Terrier was 0-5 with a 5.11 ERA in 12 starts with the rookie-claass Arizona League Padres, class-A Tri City and class-A Fort Wayne.
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