Great Lake Canadians alum Noah Myers (Wyoming, Ont.) has been named Canadian Baseball Network minor league Player of the Week after going 7-for-13 in five games for the Tampa Bay Rays’ High-A Bowling Green Hot Rods.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Terriers grads in the U.S. college ranks from the past week.
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The Junior National Team opened their Extended Spring Training Camp in Florida with a 3-1 loss to the Pirates at Pirate City in Bradenton, Fla.
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“Among the trophies Fernando Tatis Jr. was supposed to be cramming into his attic by now was not the one for Comeback of the Year.
Not long ago he was hitting baseballs out of sight, 42 of them in 2021. Then he disappeared, too. It doesn’t take long for today’s sensation to become tomorrow’s footnote. Tatis didn’t play in 2022, missed 21 games the next year and 60 games last year, thanks to a shoulder problem. Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge took over baseball’s marquee.
They are still there, but Tatis is again sending out drives that might knock their letters off, or maybe into a lower row.”
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The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed outfielder/pitcher Ben Sitarenios (Richmond Hill, Ont.).
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UBC’s Ryan Beitel (Surrey, B.C.) and Jonny McGill (Richmond, B.C.) have been named CCC pitcher and player of the week respectively.
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Free-agent pitcher Zach Pop (Brampton, Ont.), released in early April by the Toronto Blue Jays, quietly signed a contract with the Seattle Mariners a few days ago, according to Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher.
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On Jackie Robinson Day, we remember the courageous trailblazer that Jackie Robinson was and how his season with the Montreal Royals in 1946 before he broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier was so important to him.
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The Intercounty Baseball League’s Toronto Maple Leafs have signed right-hander Jeremy Newton (Toronto, Ont.).
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“The most expensive document in Toronto Blue Jays’ history hit the stage Monday afternoon.
First baseman Vladimir Guerrero put pen to paper on his contract extension, officially signing a 14-year deal worth $500 million in the presence of Guerrero’s family, teammates, friends and the media.
Sort of a big deal when one considers the cost of the franchise 49 years ago was $7 million.”
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“Warren Cromartie is facing one of the greatest battles of his life.
The former Expos player and a great promoter of baseball's possible return to Montreal is in a wheelchair and partially paralyzed in the legs following spinal-cord surgery done in 2023, a procedure he kept private for a long time until just recently.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Canadians in the U.S. college ranks from the past week in his latest “Big Man on Campus (BMOC)” column.
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Great Lake Canadians alum Tate Carey (Windsor, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s college Player of the Week after he tossed a no-hitter in his first college start for the University of Michigan.
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On a day with plenty to celebrate, the UBC Thunderbirds made it a series sweep over the Bushnell Beacons, notching two more victories with massive ramifications on the battle for playoff positioning.
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The Intercounty Baseball League’s Guelph Royals have re-signed outfielder Ashton Patterson (Kitchener, Ont.).
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The UBC Thunderbirds earned a critically important Saturday doubleheader sweep over the Bushnell University Beacons Saturday afternoon at Tourmaline West Stadium, kicking off a four-game weekend series.
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The Victoria HarbourCats are proud to announce that the Chicago White Sox have recalled infielder Chase Meidroth. He is the eighth former HarbourCat to play in the majors.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Matt Brash, Nick Pivetta, Jordan Romano, Liam Hicks, Cade Smith, Pete Rose and Vinnie Pasquantino.
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“It almost didn’t feel real to Logan Grant.
Up to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning against Dickinson State University on April 6, the Bellevue University utilityman got a hold of a Patrick Dietz offering.
He thought he had driven it to the gap to potentially tie the game 5-5.
However, the ball kept on sailing and, when it landed over the fence, Grant’s 14th home run of the season set the Bruins’ career mark at 45.
“There was a rush of emotions that hit me,” he told Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast.”
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The Intercounty Baseball League’s Toronto Maple Leafs have signed right-hander Josh Berenbaum (Richmond, B.C.).
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