June 29, 2019

By Adam Morissette

Baseball Canada

OTTAWA - Canadian Jordan Balazovic of Mississauga has been named to the American League roster for the annual SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game, which will be played on Sunday, July 7th (7pm ET) at Progressive Field in Cleveland as part of Major League Baseball’s All-Star weekend.

MLB Network will exclusively televise and MLB.com will live stream the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game.

Balazovic, 20, was one of 25 players named to the American League squad while 25 players were named to the National League squad as the contest, in its 21st year, shifts from a World vs US format to an American vs National League format for the first time.

Selected by the Minnesota Twins in the fifth round of the 2016 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, Balazovic is currently a member of High-A Fort Myers where he has a 4-1 win/loss record and 2.63 earned run average with 54 strikeouts over 41 innings pitched.

The right-handed pitcher was promoted to High-A after opening the season with Single–A Cedar Rapids where he pitched to the tune of a 2.18 ERA and 33 strikeouts in 20 and two-thirds innings pitched.

A graduate of the Junior National Team program, it has been a big week for Balazovic who cracked MLBPipeline’s Top 100 prospects list while also being named to Canada’s national team roster that will compete at the Pan Am Games next month in Lima, Peru.

All-time Canadian Futures Game participants:

Futures Game Participants (1999-2019)

Name Year(s) Team

Phillippe Aumont 2008 Mariners

Jordan Balazovic 2019 Twins

Erik Bedard 2001, 2002 Orioles

Jeff Francis 2004 Rockies

Tyson Gillies 2009 Mariners

Rich Harden 2003 A's

Shawn Hill 2003 Expos

George Kottaras 2006 Padres

Pierre-Luc LaForest 1999 Devil Rays

Brett Lawrie 2009, 2010 Brewers

Jordan Lennerton 2013 Tigers

Kyle Lotzkar 2012 Reds

Adam Loewen 2005 Orioles

Trystan Magnuson 2010 Blue Jays

Scott Mathieson 2005 Phillies

Russell Martin 2005 Dodgers

Chris Mears 1999 Mariners

Justin Morneau 2002, 2004 Twins

Aaron Myette 1999, 2000 White Sox

Josh Naylor 2016, 2017 Marlins, Padres

Ntema Ndungidi 2000 Orioles

Tyler O'Neill 2016 Mariners

James Paxton 2011 Mariners

Dalton Pompey 2014 Blue Jays

Cal Quantrill 2017 Padres

Michael Saunders 2007 Mariners

Mike Soroka 2017 Braves

Scott Thorman 2003 Braves

Rene Tosoni 2009 Twins

Phillippe Valiquette 2010 Reds

Jimmy Van Ostrand 2007 Astros

Joey Votto 2006, 2007 Reds

Nick Weglarz 2009 Indians

*2015 & 2018 - no representative