Loss a big win for 18U national championship tournament MVP

“The Mississauga Tigers High Performance Program won the Baseball Canada 18U national championship at Fort McMurray, Alta., recently.

Tournament MVP, Seth Hedges, faced a far weightier challenge just to be on the Tigers’ team.

When Hedges, 18, of Ingersoll in southwestern Ontario, first showed up for a workout with Sean Travers, the Tigers’ director of player development, in 2020, the teenager weighed just over 300 pounds.

“We did 45 minutes of fielding, followed by 45 minutes of hitting. That was the plan anyway. But Seth was exhausted after three swings. We stopped,” Travers said during a recent telephone interview.”

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