"After seeing all that Western Canada has to offer, Max Poirier is ready for something different.
In fact, the young hurler is heading to the opposite coast to continue his baseball journey.
After living and playing the game in Canada’s three western-most provinces – suiting up in some major tournaments and playing for Baseball Canada’s Junior National Team – the 17-year-old has committed to the University of Miami."
Read More"It makes sense that a guy named “Tugboat” would have a lot of ‘ships.
Championships, that is.
Matt Wilkinson – a lefty pitcher from Ladner, British Columbia who trained at Dawgs Academy in Okotoks – has now won championship titles in the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL), the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) and as a professional in the Midwest League."
Read MoreBob Elliott caught up with four more players at the Canadian Futures Showcase to ask them about their baseball journeys and their goals.
Baseball Canada has announced their Junior National Team roster for their Fall Dominican Instructional League Camp that will take place from October 21 to October 29.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays’ equipment and clubhouse manager Jeff Ross recently lost his home in Hudson, Fla., during Hurricane Helene. According to his former Blue Jays colleague, Kevin Malloy, who has started a GoFundMe page, Ross had just purchased the home and moved in a few weeks ago.
Read MoreAccording to Canadian baseball historian David Matchett, the Cleveland Guardians made history in their 3-0 American League Division Series loss to the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park on Wednesday when four Canadians appeared in the game for them.
This marked the first time that four Canadian major leaguers have played in a post-season contest for the same team.
Read MoreBob Elliott shares a great Luis Tiant story, as well as some other memories of the legendary right-hander who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 83.
Read MoreThe Western Canadian Baseball League's Medicine Hat Mavericks have announced their 2025 coaching staff.
Read MoreThe Terriers are hitting the road and heading south this week for their annual fall college trip.
Read More"It wasn’t a perfect trip to Florida but it was close.
Canadian Premier went 3-0 in round robin play at the Perfect Game WWBA Underclass World Championship in Fort Myers."
Read MoreFreddie Freeman and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) have been finalists for Major League Baseball's Hank Aaron Award, presented each year to the top hitter in each league.
Read MoreThe Intercounty Baseball League saw record-breaking attendance for several of its franchises in 2024.
Read More"As youngsters growing up north of Kingston in the village of Delta, if ever the three sports-minded Huddleston brothers, Dale, Lee and Gerry, were forced to choose their “favourite' uncle, it would've been a toss-up, a too-close-to-call decision. A “pick 'em,” as Vegas oddsmakers say."
Read MoreThe Canadian Baseball Network unveils its 2024 All-Canadian college Third Team.
Read MoreRHP Jack Potts (London, Ont.), of the Great Lake Canadians, and LHP Mathis McKenna (Rigaud, Que.), of ABC, combined on a perfect game at the Perfect Game Underclassmen event in Fort Myers.
Read MoreDoug Mathieson’s Brewers Langley Blaze and a Canadian Premier Baseball League team, coached by Jamie Romak, will compete in the 26th annual Perfect Game World Wood Bat championships starting this week in Jupiter, Fla.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew's weekly "But What Do I Know?" column discusses Erik Sabrowski, Cade Smith, Terry Francona, Rob Thomson, Andrew Albers and Tom Henke.
Read MoreAnd then there were eight.
Of the eight teams left in this year's MLB postseason, which one is the most Canadian?
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew researched this question and offers an answer.
Read MoreGreat Lake Canadians and Ontario Blue Jays alum Noah Skirrow (Stoney Creek, Ont.) was named the Canadian Baseball Network's Player of the Week for the week of September 9 to September 15 after he threw six scoreless innings in his final start of the year for the Philadelphia Phillies' double-A Reading Fightin' Phils.
Read More"Pete Rose lived long enough to watch baseball embrace its own hypocrisy, to watch baseball make peace with Draft Kings and FanDuel right out there in the sunshine, without splitting up cash in back alleys, misbehaving in the open just as he did.
The irony didn’t feel like triumph to him, because he was too plugged into his own situation. He wasn’t a Big Picture guy. Again, in July, he was selling his autographs in a narrow warren off Main Street in Cooperstown, maybe a couple of ground-rule doubles away from the Hall of Fame, where he belonged. He also outlived much of the Rose Generation."
Read More
