Abbotsford’s pink-haired pitching prodigy is continuing to turn heads in the baseball world. Raine Padgham, 13, has attracted local, national and international attention this year, and it seems like 2019 is set to be a big one for the local talent. Padgham heads to Compton, Calif., this weekend for the Trailblazer Series presented by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, Baseball Canada announced the names of the 28 athletes that have been invited to the Junior National Team’s (U-18) annual Extended Spring Training Camp in West Palm Beach, Florida from April 18-27.
Read MoreMajor League Baseball recently announced participants for the third annual Trailblazer Series and among the group named are five Canadian athletes who will attend the event in Compton, California from April 11 – 13.
Read MoreJordan Gledhill, of OU Daily, shares how Georgetown, Ont., native Ben Abram’s experiences with the Canadian Junior National Team have helped the young right-hander find success in his first collegiate season with the Oklahoma Sooners.
Read MoreLeft-handed pitching prospect Kellan Tulio should be familiar with setting the bar. He’s from Emmaus, Penn., about half an hour south of Allentown and north of Philadelphia. His mom, Julie White, who was a Canadian Olympian, certainly knows all about setting the bar high and clearing it.
Read MoreBaseball Canada has shared the list of Canadians who have been selected as officials by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) for various Baseball World Cup events in 2019.
Read MoreCanadians Russell Martin, Tyler O’Neill, James Paxton, Nick Pivetta, Dalton Pompey and Joey Votto make-up the six Canadians on Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day rosters with the 2019 season set to begin today.
Read MoreDasan Brown (Oakville, Ont.) drilled a home run in the sixth inning and TJ Schofield-Sam (Brampton, Ont.) drove in two runs in the third inning to highlight the Junior National Team’s annual trip to Dunedin to face Canada’s only big league baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays.
Read MoreWith the annual split-squad contest against the Toronto Blue Jays looming, the Junior National Team wrapped up play at the Walter Fuller Complex on Friday and defeated a prospects squad from the Detroit Tigers’ organization, 5-4.
Read MoreJNT spring: Owen Diodati, Ryan Leitch, Ayden Makarus go for extra base hits against Yankees, while Mitch Robinson (Surrey, BC) went deep for the Pin-Striped Prospects.
Read MoreThe Tampa Bay Rays sent some of their top prospects to play the Junior National Team on Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Fla., and they proved their worth coming away with a 10-1 win at the Walter Fuller Complex, the former spring training home of the big league organization.
Read MoreFormer Junior National Team star Adam Hall (London, ON) headlined a Baltimore Orioles’ prospects squad that took on the current version of the national team today at the Walter Fuller Complex, and it was Hall and the Orioles who prevailed, 9-5.
Read MoreA Philadelphia Phillies prospects squad featuring Canadian baseball legends Ernie Whitt and Rob Ducey on the coaching staff paid a visit to the Walter Fuller Complex to take on the Junior National Team and came away with a 6-0 win.
Read MoreAfter a long winter training indoors, the Junior National Team opened their spring training schedule against the Fort Lauderdale Stars and suffered a 14-2 loss to their professional counterparts. Noah Hull’s (Toronto, Ont.) solo home run in the sixth stood as a bright spot offensively as the Junior National Team mustered just five hits.
Read MoreThey began their careers on the Women’s National Team together back in 2004 so it’s only fitting that they finish together, too. After 15 seasons with the program, that has included participation in all eight Women’s Baseball World Cups and the 2015 Pan American Games, Kate Psota (Burlington, Ont.) and Ashley Stephenson (Mississauga, Ont.) are retiring as players from the Women’s National Team.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Scott Langdon discusses the merger of “corporate speak” and baseball with Canadian National Women’s general manager Andre Lachance.
Read MoreBaseball Canada has announced the names of the 31 athletes that have been invited to the Junior National Team’s (U-18) annual Spring Training Camp at the Walter Fuller Complex in St. Petersburg, Fla. from March 14-23.
Read MoreWomen’s National Team athletes Liz Gilder (Port Moody, BC) and Alli Schroder (Fruitvale, BC) were among eight Canadians announced by Major League Baseball to attend ‘MLB Grit’, an inaugural high school invitational designed specifically for girls who play baseball.
Read More“She is as talented as she is tenacious. That would be a succinct way to describe Alexis Brudnicki, who has been the Canadian Baseball Network’s most prolific writer over the past eight years. In the modern sportswriting landscape, where churning out copy at lightning speed has become the expectation, I sometimes fear there’s too much emphasis on quantity over quality. With Alexis, we, at CBN, were spoiled, we got both – quality and quantity. In case you haven’t heard, Alexis is moving on from CBN to start a job as a reporter/producer for MLB Advanced Media based in Toronto. And while we’re very proud of her and walking taller around the website’s headquarters in Mississauga and London, we sure will miss her.”
Read MoreCanada’s journey to securing a spot in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will begin in Seoul, Korea this November. On Wednesday, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) announced the three opening round groups and host locations for II WBSC Premier12 event that will be staged from November 2-17, 2019.
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