Each year at the Canadian Futures Showcase, we try to highlight a few players by asking them a series of questions. Here are the first four players that Bob Elliott connected with.
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The Intercounty Baseball League has announced its 2025 All-IBL First and Second teams.
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“The high school scene saw a seismic shift when the Toronto Blue Jays created Tournament 12 in 2014.
Later, it was renamed the Canadian Futures Showcase and it rolled into action earlier this month as the Blue Jays again showed they are solid corporate citizens.
Whether the player is from Comox, B.C., North York, Ont., or Dartmouth, N.S., the registration is the same for all players attending the event.
And now comes Baseball Canada’s Road to Okotoks, a true team national championship for 2026 for 19U players. It will be king of the hill, the best of all the events.”
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The road to Canadian baseball academy supremacy will run through Okotoks. Baseball Canada and Dawgs Academy have announced the launch of “The Road to Okotoks” national championship, which will see 16 elite academy teams compete for the Morneau Cup.
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“Until his death at the grand age of 97 on Sept. 21, Bob Oldis had been the oldest surviving uniformed member of the Expos.
That honour will now be passed on to Elroy Face, who is the oldest surviving Montreal player.
Oldis was one of the longest running scouts the Expos ever had for 35 years.”
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Toronto Mets and Junior National Team grad Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.) has been named a Double-A Texas League All-Star.
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Toronto Mets alum Jonah Tong (Markham, Ont.) has been named the Double-A Eastern League’s Pitcher of the Year after his dominant season with the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.
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Hamilton Cardinals right-hander Owen Boon (London, Ont.) has been named the 2025 Intercounty Baseball League MVP.
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“The decision to get George Selkirk's name on a baseball field in Huntsville, Ont. wasn't a simple exercise.
After close to 10 years of coaxing and prodding by Peter Haynes of Toronto, a Huntsville property owner and president of the Muskoka Hornets Baseball Association, town council voted 7-2 on Sept. 22 to rename the F Diamond the Selkirk Diamond in honour of the New York Yankees legend.”
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The Québec Capitales went toe-to-toe with the Schaumburg Boomers in the decisive fifth game of the Frontier League championship, but Québec broke a ninth-inning tie to secure a 6–5 victory and clinch their fourth consecutive league title on Sunday night at Wintrust Field.
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“Although Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doesn’t know it, the Kennedy clan of Kingston, Canada, and the Guerrero clan from Don Gregorio, Dominican Republic, are entwined by three memorable moments.
That these ‘moments’ are memorable for only one family — mine — is irrelevant. A bond is a bond.”
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Toronto Mets and Butler Prospects alum Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s minor league Player of the Week after his stellar performance with the triple-A Nashville Sounds.
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Evan Morrison (Mitchell, Ont.), of the Chatham-Kent Barnstormers, has been named the Intercounty Baseball League’s Rookie of the Year.
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Vauxhall Academy and Team Saskatchewan grad Garrett Hawkins (Biggar, Sask.) has been named a High-A Midwest League All-Star after his outstanding performance with the Fort Wayne TinCaps.
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Bob Elliott: Remembering Baseball Canada executive, coach, GM, international administrator Jim Baba (Moose Jaw, Sask.)
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Cade Smith, Erik Sabrowski, Josh Naylor, Bo Naylor, Liam Hicks, Jonah Tong and Pete Ward.
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“As the dust settles from a whirlwind season that took our family across Tennessee, Alabama, and Ohio, I find myself facing a quieter, unexpected challenge: the stillness.”
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London Majors right-hander Skylar Janisse (Maidstone, Ont.) has been named Intercounty Baseball League Closer of the Year.
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Mississauga Tigers slugger Quinn Lightfoot (Caledon, Ont.) was named the MVP of the Canadian Futures Showcase.
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Ramsey Chung (Mississauga, Ont.), of the Mississauga Tigers, played the hero as Team Royal took home the Canadian Futures Showcase championship game 4-3 in a down-to-the-wire victory over Team Grey on Friday, at the Rogers Centre.
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