Baseball Canada: 2023 Canadian MLB Draft recap

Nine Canadians were selected in the 2023 MLB draft. Photo: Baseball Canada

July 11, 2023

Baseball Canada

OTTAWA – Toronto’s Brady Cerkownyk and Junior National Team grad Jérémy Pilon (Valleyfield, Que) were the only two Canadians selected on the third and final day of the 2023 Major League Baseball Draft with rounds 11 through 20 taking place.

The three-day total of Canadians selected was nine players with the Toronto Blue Jays accounting for two selections while the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Guardians, Detroit Tigers, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays had one each.

Canadians selected in 2023 MLB First-Year Player Draft

*3B Myles Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) – Oakland Athletics – Competitive Balance Round A (39th overall) Junior National Team/Ontario Blue Jays

RHP Matt Duffy (Burlington, Ont.) – Boston Red Sox – Round 4 (115th overall) Canisius College

*LHP Connor O’Halloran (Mississauga, Ont.) – Toronto Blue Jays – Round 5 (157th overall) University of Michigan

*OF Sam Shaw (Victoria, BC) – Toronto Blue Jays – Round 9 (274th overall) Victoria Eagles

OF Avery Owusu-Asiedu (Saskatoon, Sask.) – Philadelphia Phillies – Round 9 (283rd overall) Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

LHP Matt Wilkinson (Ladner, BC) – Cleveland Guardians – Round 10 (308th overall) Central Arizona

OF Pier-Olivier Boucher (Saint-Joseph-de-Bauce, Que.) – Atlanta Braves - Round 10 (309th overall) Southern Illinois U Carbondale

C Brady Cerkownyk (Toronto, Ont.) – Detroit Tigers – Round 15 (440th overall) Connors State

*LHP Jérémy Pilon (Valleyfield, Que.) – Tampa Bay Rays – Round 18 (543rd overall) Junior National Team

*Junior National Team alumni