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Three returnees highlight first HarbourCats players signed for 2023 season

“Loyalty matters -- and loyal fans of the Victoria HarbourCats will be happy with the first signed players for the 2023 West Coast League season.

Versatile infielder Hudson Shupe, catcher Russell Young, local pitcher/infielder Ryder Green and stocky lefty Jake Finkelstein, the only new player of the bunch, will be part of Head Coach Todd Haney's attack when WCL baseball returns to Wilson's Group Stadium at RAP in June -- with the potential home opener on Friday, June 2.”

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SandlotsCBN Staff
Langdon: A half century of Sunday mornings in Etobicoke

Tom McInnis, David Lee and some friends from elementary and high school decided to play a little pick-up baseball one Sunday morning in 1972. Fifty consecutive years later, with no organized league, no uniforms nor umpires, their games have become a little-known baseball institution in the west Toronto suburb of Etobicoke. Canadian Baseball Network writer Scott Langdon has the story.

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SandlotsScott Langdon
Elliott: CBN's All-Canucks going pro, from Bay and Ridley to Brookman and Wepf ... 216 in all

No one knows for sure what lies ahead for the members of our soon-to-be-announced 22nd annual Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian College team.

Whomever makes the All-Canadian college team — the best playing the majority of their schedule south of the border in 2021 — they will be carrying on a Canadian tradition: success at the college level that translated into success at the pro level.

Looking back, here are the former all-Canadians — 194 in all — who have reached the next level, or are on their way to proceeding further down the road than most before retiring … Here is a look at how far they went, plus where they pitched or played in 2021.

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Elliott: PG rates Soucie as top Canuck JUCO recruit

Jackson Soucie didn’t receive any recognition in July during the draft of high schoolers and collegians.

Yet, people are talking about him now.

LHP Soucie (Cambridge, Ont.) was ranked the ninth best junior college prospect on Perfect Game’s top 281 ranked JUCO recruits. That’s ninth out of the roughly 500 schools fielding teams next spring.

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SandlotsBob Elliott