With Landon Leach (Pickering, Ont.) and Jordan Balazovic (Mississauga, Ont.), the Minnesota Twins might have the best 1-2 Canadian punch in same minor-league system.
Read MoreThe Major League Scouting Bureau -- and its travelling road show it produced each winter and each spring -- has long since disbanded. Yet, amateur scouts still made the trek -- six stops in four provinces -- looking for the best high schoolers last month. This year’s draft takes place June 3-to-5. We asked a number of scouts on the trip, just who had the best outing ... improved their stock?
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shares his memories of Hall of Famer and Pittsburgh Pirates World Series hero Bill Mazeroski.
Read MoreElliott: Lou Pote saved my life
Read MoreThe walls of the eighth floor cardio unit at Foothills Hospital are narrow. Especially when you have rehabbing heart patients walking with their pals -- an IV with five wheels on the bottom spinning every which way -- plus beds and a mobile nurse’s station against the wall. It was an easy trip for Calgary Flames centreman Mark Jankowski, all 6-foot-4 and 212 pounds of him, as he stopped by Sunday afternoon to visit with his old baseball coach, Bob Elliott.
Read MoreWhen the 2016 draft took place RHP Jordan Balazovic (Mississauga, Ont.) was the fifth Canadian selected. The Canuck hurler is now ranked as the Minnesota Twins’ third best prospect by ESPN’s Keith Law and the 102nd overall prospect.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott pays tribute to his long-time colleague and friend “Nico” Cafardo who passed away on Thursday at the age of 62.
Read MoreRegina Expos and RBI Training Center grad Spencer Davis (Regina, Sask.) is off to pitch for the Arizona Christian University Firestorm.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott reflects on the time he interviewed country music superstar Garth Brooks.
Read MoreWith Bo Levi Mitchell signing a new deal with the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders, we thought we’d dig into our vault and re-run this article that was originally published on June 25, 2018.
Read MoreA health update on Bob Elliott for February 12.
Read MorePerfect Game’s top 100 recruiting class of high schoolers for universities in the spring of 2019 has 10 incoming Canadian freshmen. They will join 29 Canucks already on the rosters of the top 100 teams. And looking at the Letter of Intent page another 10 -- and counting -- are set to join the top 100 teams in 2020 or 2021. All in all, that’s 49 Canadians listed on the rosters of schools Perfect Game has ranked among 2019 top recruiting classes.
Read MoreA message and an update from Canadian Baseball Network founder Bob Elliott.
Read MoreWidely respected baseball executive Kevin Towers died one year ago today at the age of 56 after a courageous battle with thyroid cancer. We remember him today with this 2011 story by Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott.
Read MoreCanadians Ben Abram, Brett Bass, Eric Cerantola and David Rhodes all rank among Perfect Game's top freshmen.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott asked 36 players, coaches and executives at the Baseball Canada National Teams Awards Banquet on Saturday who was the best player in attendance. Thirty of the 36 (83.3%) answered Larry Walker (Maple Ridge, B.C.)
Read MoreCincinnati scout Reds Bill Byckowski (Georgetown, Ont.) is the 2018 Canadian Baseball Network Scout of the year and the winner of the Jim Ridley award.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Bob Elliott has unveiled his 2018 list of the most influential people in Canadian baseball. So who is No. 1 this year?
Read MoreFormer major leaguers, triple-A players and even retired players will suit up for Canada way south of the border down Sao Paulo way next month. The goal will be a third straight Pan Am Games gold medal after Canada won in Mexico in 2011 and Ajax in 2015. Canadian Junior National Team gave us baseball in December winning the 18U Pan Am qualifier and now the Team Canada seniors head to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the Pan Am Game Qualifier Jan. 29-Feb. 3.
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