As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they are pleased to announce that their “Monday Hot Stove” session on April 27 will feature Martijn Nijhoff. An expert in “motor control and movement analysis,” Nijhoff holds the title of Skills Acquisition Consultant with the Pittsburgh Pirates where he primarily works with coaches and instructors in the Player Development system.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew reviews Danny Gallagher’s excellent new book, “Always Remembered: New revelations and old tales about those fabulous Expos.”
Read MoreFour Canadians have cracked MLB Pipeline’s updated Top 150, 2020 draft prospects list, which was released on Tuesday.
Read MoreThe start of the American Association’s Winnipeg Goldeyes’ season has been postponed.
Read MoreOntario Blue Jays’ LHP Mason Robertson (Barrie, Ont.) has committed to Hillsborough Community College.
Read MoreOntario Terriers RHP/INF Zachary Saufl has announced his commitment to the Vanguard University of Southern California.
Read MoreBaseball Canada is expressing its gratitude to its many volunteers during National Volunteer Week.
Read MoreWhile the COVID‐19 situation remains fluid, Baseball Ontario is continuing to monitor the situation. Based on the guidelines of the provincial government and public health authorities, they are extending the suspension of all in‐person baseball programs and activities until May 31, 2020.
Read MoreThere may -- or may not -- be a summer schedule for Canada’s elite teams. Yet, one thing we know, one thing a virus can’t take away are the players named to the Rawlings-Perfect Game Preseason All-Region First Team selections. Canada is grouped with Puerto Rico, which also has players eligible for the draft. Joey Ellison’s Ontario Blue Jays as well as Doug Mathieson and Jamie Bodaly’s Langley Blaze had the most Canadians with five players each to the First Team.
Read MoreDevon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, recently caught up with his lifelong friend Nick DeForest, who played college ball, as well as internationally in Austria. DeForest is now an athletic director in Austria who is planning a web conference for athletic directors around the world which will take place on April 21 and 22.
Read MoreOntario Terriers infielder Elijha Hammill (Oakville, Ont.) has been recognized by Rawlings and Perfect Game as one of the top Underclass athletes at the high school level in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico. The list includes 300 players from the 2021, 2022 and 2023 classes. In addition, Terriers’ RHP/ INF Dylan Oborne (Richmond Hill, Ont.) received an honourable mention in the Canada / Puerto Rico Region.
Read MoreJohn Taylor, a special uncle and father figure to Montreal Expos legend Andre Dawson, died Jan. 29 in Miami of acute myeloid leukemia. Earlier this month, the former lieutenant-commander in the U.S. Coast Guard Service was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Read MoreOntario Blue Jays alum Noah Skirrow (Stoney Creek, Ont.), who is one of the top Canadian pitching prospects heading into this year’s MLB draft, is trying to stay sharp by pitching in a barn in Pennsylvania that’s owned by his girlfriend’s family.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Joey Votto, Jordan Romano, Fergie Jenkins, Damaso Garcia, Spike Owen and Jose Cruz Jr.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher caught up with former Montreal Expos coach Bobby Winkles in 2016 and wrote this article. Winkles passed away on Friday at the age of 90.
Read MoreLarry Shenk, from The Baron, writes that the 62-win, 1920 Philadelphia Phillies had three Hall of Famers on their team.
Read MoreFormer Montreal Expos coach and broadcaster Bobby Winkles passed away on Friday at the age of 90.
Read MoreSeventy-four years ago today, Jackie Robinson made his integrated professional baseball debut with the Montreal Royals at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, N.J. He went 4-for-5 with a home run, three singles and two stolen bases to lead the Royals to a 14-1 win over the Jersey City Giants.
Read MoreThe Jays had played 55,762 innings in their 39-year history, including post season, when they began the 55,763rd Wednesday, Oct. 14 -- the seventh inning of the fifth and deciding game of the American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers. It was a six-out inning like no other.
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