The Intercounty Baseball League has announced its Players of the Week.
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Longtime Montreal Expos scout and former minor league manager Pat Daugherty passed away on Thursday at the age of 89. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher remembers him.
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The Okotoks Dawgs pounded the Moose Jaw Miller Express 16-3 in front of 4,898 fans at Seaman Stadium on Friday night.
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Longtime Okotoks Dawgs ace Graham Brunner (Sherwood Park, Alta.) will start the WCBL All-Star Game for the West Division on Saturday night at Seaman Stadium.
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The Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Moose Jaw Miller Express 4-3 on Thursday night at Seaman Stadium.
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Travis Bazzana, the top pick in this year’s MLB draft, and his Oregon State Beavers teammates spent 10 days training at the Seaman Stadium Complex in Okotoks, Alta. last fall. Ian Wilson, from Alberta Dugout Stories, wrote about it.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Terriers players from the past week.
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Baseball Canada has announced their 2024 National Women’s Team roster.
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“Inspiration was everywhere for Jimmy Dionne.
It was in the crowded stadiums, the road-trips to new places, the talent of the Quebec Capitales players that Dionne had front row seats to growing up as son of a Capitales coach.
The life of a pro baseball player surrounded him, and it was a dream he wanted a part of.
The now 6-foot-4 19-year-old would jump into his dad’s vehicle as a four and five-year-old en route to ball fields in Boston and New York. When the Capitales went on the road, his dad, Stephane Dionne coached, and Jimmy, too young to play and too young to coach — took it all in.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Tyson Shushkewich recently caught up with Red Deer Braves and Junior National Team alum Nathan Flewelling who was drafted in the third round by the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday.
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“Chase Tucker will be representing Newfoundland in the Western Canadian Baseball League All-Star Game this Saturday at Seaman Stadium.
And the Okotoks Dawgs right-hander is proud to do it.
“I’m a proud Newfie until I die,” Tucker said with a chuckle in a phone interview. “I’m super proud to be from Newfoundland.”
How proud?
Well, his mound song is “Heave Away” by The Fables, a Celtic Rock band from St. John’s, Nfld.
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The list of sluggers that will participate in the Western Canadian Baseball League’s All-Star Game Home Run Derby on Saturday at Seaman Stadium has been unveiled.
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Longtime college coach Mike McRae (Niagara Falls, Ont.) has been hired by Rutgers to be their new pitching coach/associate head coach.
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USC infielder Bryce Martin-Grudzielanek was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays late in the MLB draft Tuesday and the club will need to come up with at least a half a million bucks to sign him, according to Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher.
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The Okotoks Dawgs lost 2-1 to the Sylvan Lake Gulls in front of 1,706 fans at Gulls Stadium on Tuesday.
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Two more Thunderbirds have earned their opportunity to go pro, as UBC ace Sean Heppner and fireballer Vicarte Domingo have both been selected in the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft. Heppner was taken in the 12th round, 355th overall, by the Cleveland Guardians. Domingo was chosen in the 19th round, 570th overall, by the San Diego Padres. The two pitchers are the 32nd and 33rd players in program history drafted to or signed by an MLB team.
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Purdue catcher Connor Caskenette (Duncan, B.C.) was drafted by the Miami Marlins on Tuesday.
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Right-hander Cohen Achen (Calgary, Alta.) was selected in the 14th round of the Major League Baseball Draft on Tuesday.
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The 2024 MLB Draft concluded today with rounds 11 through 20 where 11 Canadians heard their names called, bringing the three-day total of Canadians selected to 16.
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Current Junior National Team catcher Nathan Flewelling didn’t wait long to hear his name on day two of the Major League Baseball Draft as the Tampa Bay Rays used their third-round selection (94th overall) on the Red Deer, Alta., native.
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