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Elliott: Happy campers led by Valero, Brown, Macko, Saul, Pelletier, Diodati

The 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?

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Elliott: Flames' Jankowski the little centre fielder who grew and grew

The 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.

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Elliott: 10 Canucks on PG's top 100 recruit class, joining others and committed, a total of 49

Perfect 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.

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Elliott: Two-time gold medalist Canucks off to Brazil for Pan Am qualifier

Former 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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