Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Garrett Hawkins, Edwin Encarnacion, Justin Morneau, Jerry Howarth, Scott Crawford and Dave Shipanoff.
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Ontario Blue Jays and Junior National Team alum Josh Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) has re-signed with the Seattle Mariners. It is a five-year deal.
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With so many Canadians enjoying standout seasons in 2025, it will be a close competition for this year’s Tip O’Neill Award.
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame presents this award annually to the Canadian player judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball’s highest ideals.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Cade Smith, Rob Thomson, Denzel Clarke, Liam Hicks, Michael Soroka and Jose Berrios.
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From hanging in the West to competing with the very best, players from the Western Canadian Baseball League put their skills on display in the majors this year.
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On Remembrance Day, the Canadian Baseball Network remembers Penetanguishene, Ont., native Phil Marchildon who was both an ace big league pitcher and a Second World War hero.
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Toronto Blue Jays DH/outfielder George Springer and GM Ross Atkins are among those worthy of 2025 year-end awards, according to Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Josh Naylor, Don Mattingly, Carlos Delgado, Tyler O’Neill, Steve Hargan, Rowan Wick and George Wood.
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Tyler O’Neill isn’t going anywhere. The right-handed hitting slugger, who hails from Maple Ridge, B.C., has opted to stay with the Baltimore Orioles for the next two years. The three-year contract O’Neill signed with the Orioles last winter included a clause that allowed him to opt out of the remaining two years following the 2025 campaign, leaving over $33 million on the table if he decided to test the free agent market. Instead, he will remain in Baltimore, where he will earn $16.5 million in each of the next two seasons.
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Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thomson (Corunna, Ont.) has been named a National League Manager of the Year finalist.
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Toronto Blue Jays legend Carlos Delgado is one of the eight players on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Era ballot that was released on Monday. The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee will meet on Dec. 7 at baseball’s Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., to vote on the ballot.
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On this date 54 years ago, Fergie Jenkins (Chatham, Ont.) became the first Canadian to win the National League Cy Young Award.
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Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Ty France was the only Toronto Blue Jays player to receive a 2025 Gold Glove Award.
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“On many Nov. 1sts to come, our contemporaries and descendants will be trading tales about this Game 7 in Toronto, a night of astonished stares and double-takes and wonderment over what’s next. The ones in Ontario will be obsessed, for a good while, about the many ways the Blue Jays could have won and the inside straights that allowed the Dodgers to.
Will Smith came up in the 11th inning with two out against Shane Bieber. There were two out, nobody on. Bieber tried to be careful, but when you’re careful against Smith and most of the Dodgers, you give up control of the ball-strike count. On 2-and-0 Bieber went to a slider that sat there and waited to become a passenger. Smith’s home run to left field gave the Dodgers a 5-4 lead, their first of the entire game, and eventually gave them their second consecutive World Series championship. No one had done that since the 1999-2000 Yankees, and no National League team had done it since the 1975-76 Big Red Machine from Cincinnati.”
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew shares his usual Sunday “But What Do I Know?” column two days early. He discusses Game 6, Trey Yesavage, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Rodger Brulotte, Erik Sabrowski and Fred McGriff.
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“When Game 5 arrived Wednesday, and the local fans settled in to watch the Dodgers impose familiarity, the Blue Jays took the lead before they could text their agents.
Davis Schneider, the 28th-round draft choice who was signed by John Schneider, the unrelated scout who is now his manager, led off because George Springer is hurt. He wasn’t going to let Blake Snell impose his patterns and build his sequence. He let it rip when he saw the fastball coming, and the ball landed in the leftfield stands, a fan catching Snell’s pitch before catcher Will Smith could. Two pitches later, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) did the same thing. The Blue Jays handed a 2-0 lead to a 22-year-old who, 16 months ago, was pitching East Carolina to an NCAA regional upset of Wake Forest. Trey Yesavage had already faced the Dodgers once, without trauma. This time he struck out 12 of them in seven innings and got 23 swings and misses. “
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“Game 3 was like an orphan, or maybe an old CD player left in the yard, for scavengers. Six baserunners were nabbed at second, third or home. The Blue Jays lost a run because home plate Mark Wegner, faced with calling either a ball or a strike on Daulton Varsho, decided to call a ballike or a strall or something in between, and Bo Bichette got picked off because he couldn’t tell.”
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s latest “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Addison Barger, the 1992 World Series parade, Ernie Clement, Josh Naylor and Eric Lindros.
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Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto got stronger as the game went on in his complete-game, 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday.
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