Baseball Canada shares their list of Canadian connections in the MLB playoffs.
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Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker presents the case for how each of the American League wild-card teams - including the Toronto Blue Jays - have a chance to advance to the World Series.
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The Toronto Blue Jays will be Canada’s team this post-season. But outside of the Blue Jays, which of the other 11 teams participating in the major league post-season employs the most Canadian talent? Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew researched this question and offers an answer.
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Baseball Canada would like to announce that Chris Balison has resigned from the position of Baseball Canada president due to personal and professional reasons.
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Jackson Soucie didn’t receive any recognition in July during the draft of high schoolers and collegians.
Yet, people are talking about him now.
LHP Soucie (Cambridge, Ont.) was ranked the ninth best junior college prospect on Perfect Game’s top 281 ranked JUCO recruits. That’s ninth out of the roughly 500 schools fielding teams next spring.
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Former Montreal Expos second baseman Marv Staehle has died. Staehle, who played for the Expos in 1969 and 1970, passed away Sept. 30 at age 80, according to a Facebook notice. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher shares more about Staehle and his major league career.
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Legendary Montreal Expos broadcaster Jacques Doucet and legendary Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster Jerry Howarth have been named finalists for the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2023 Ford C. Frick Award.
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ABC and Junior National Team alum Édouard Julien (Quebec City, Que.) has been named the second baseman on Baseball America’s Double-A All-Star Team.
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In a sad turn of events, Canadian baseball legend Fergie Jenkins is taking legal action against the foundation in his name to retrieve personal artifacts that are currently housed in a museum in St. Catharines, Ont.
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The Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) has begun its search to fill the commissioner role following the departure of John Kastner after the 2022 season.
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“Baseball Canada’s Executive, Board of Directors and office staff had a productive strategic planning session in July 2022 and decided to engage Baseball Canada’s key stakeholders to further develop the plan. Baseball Canada has retained the strategic planning services of Benoit Girardin from LBB Strategies (lbbstrategies.com) who had developed strategic plans for the WBSC, Baseball Québec and more than 30 NSOs and PSOs.”
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The Frontier League, a partner league of Major League Baseball, and the Ottawa Titans have announced the 2023 regular season schedule, which will see the club begin the campaign at home on Friday, May 12, against the Empire State Greys.
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C-3B Noah Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) hopes to follow in brother 1B Josh Naylor’s foot steps. Josh went 12th over-all three years ago. Most mock drafts have Noah going in the first round in the 2018 MLB Draft which begins on Monday night.
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The Mississauga Majors recently won the OBA 16U championships at Bernie Arbour Memorial Stadium in Hamilton.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Bo Naylor, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Charles Leblanc, Cal Quantrill, Rob Zastryzny, Bill Stoneman and Fergie Jenkins.
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“Way back in the old days, the top states interested in recruiting Canadians were those that shared the same border with Canada.
Going west to east most players went to Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, New York and Maine.
When the Perfect Game Scouting Service listed its top recruits by conference, the leader was the Pac-12 ... with seven.”
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Marc-Antoine Bérubé has been named the new executive director of the Montreal-based Baseball Academy of Canada (ABC).
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The fifth edition of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) is set for March 2023 and Canada is set to compete in Pool C starting on March 12.
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“For all intents and purposes, Amar Mahmood is a late-bloomer in the game of baseball.
The Edmonton product loved the game, but admits he was out of shape in high school and “not very good” on the diamond.
He had been cut from various teams, and was simply playing the game for fun while training at St. Francis Xavier Academy in Grades 10 and 11 then 5 Tool Fieldhouse in Grade 12.
That’s when he met Absolute Human Performance (AHP) founder Taylor Burns, who convinced Mahmood to take a gap year and play with AHP’s first academy team.”
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Canadian Baseball Network lead writer Matt Betts takes a look at who might be on Canada’s roster at the next World Baseball Classic which is set to take place in March.
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