McFarland: Resilient Red Deer Riggers captured bronze at Men's National Championships

“The Red Deer Riggers’ run to a national medal wasn’t for the faint of heart.

As Alberta’s representative at the 2026 Baseball Canada Men’s National Championships, the Riggers came in believing they had the talent to get the job done.

What they couldn’t have foreseen was the journey it would take to get there, battling adversity in almost every game and having to wait – sometimes excruciatingly long – to take the lead and pull out the win.”

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CBN Minor League Player of the Week: Jonah Tong

In his most dominant start of the season for the triple-A Syracuse Mets, Jonah Tong tossed a one-hit shutout against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs to lead his club to a 6-0 win on Saturday.

The Markham, Ont., native fanned eight batters in the seven-inning contest.

For his efforts, he has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s Minor League Player of the Week (Aug. 25 to Aug. 30).

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Whicker: Dealing Crow-Armstrong to Cubs may go down as Mets’ biggest trade blunder

“Some trades, and their consequences, don’t just grow. They metastasize. Thirteen months after the Mets drafted a L.A. high school outfielder named Pete Crow-Armstrong in the first round, they succumbed to a particularly bad strain of pennant fever. They lusted for Javier Baez, the many-faceted star of the Cubs in the late 2010s.

Except this was 2021. The Mets were leading the National League East by four games at the time, but interim general manager Zack Scott, supported by club president Sandy Alderson, wanted more.

So Scott called the Cubs, who had Tom Myers, a scout who had done a lot of pre-draft work on Crow-Armstrong. Myers told the Cubs who to ask for, and Baez went east and Crow-Armstrong went to the midwest. If you’ve noticed, his journey has taken a sharp turn northward.”

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