Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Liam Hicks, Josh Naylor, Nick Pivetta, Matt Brash, Fergie Jenkins and Carlos Delgado.
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UBC routed Eastern Oregon twice in a doubleheader on Saturday to move into first place in the CCC standings.
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The Junior National Team lost 8-0 to a team of Philadelphia Phillies prospects in Clearwater, Fla., on Friday in the latest game of their Extended Spring Training Camp.
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The Junior National Team used a big sixth inning to power past the Fort Lauderdale Stars in the third game of their Extended Spring Training Camp.
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Toronto Mets alum and Florida Atlantic University infielder Brando Leroux (Markham, Ont.) has been named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List, which was released by the College Baseball Foundation. This award recognizes the most outstanding shortstop in Division I baseball.
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Great Lake Canadians alum and University of Utah senior Core Jackson was named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List on Friday, as released by the College Baseball Foundation. The award recognizes the most outstanding shortstop in Division I baseball.
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The Western Canadian Baseball League’s Fort McMurray Giants have announced that Josh Iannetti will be their new GM.
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Okotoks Dawgs slugger Nash Crowell (Yarmouth, N.S.) recently belted his 56th career home run for Reinhart University to break the program record. Joe McFarland, of Alberta Dugout Stories, recently spoke to Crowell about the accomplishment.
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The Junior National Team jumped out to a fast start Thursday morning but couldn’t hold off a late push from the Toronto Blue Jays’ extended spring squad, falling 5–4 in a tight matchup.
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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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