Dykxhoorn re-signs with Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions

Right-hander Brock Dykxhoorn (Goderich, Ont.) was the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2021 Claude Pelletier Award, as top Canuck pitcher in the foreign or independent ranks. Photo: Twitter

January 6, 2022

By Kevin Glew

Canadian Baseball Network

Canadian right-hander Brock Dykxhoorn has re-signed with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the 2022 season.

The Goderich, Ont., native was dominant for the CPBL club in 2021. In 27 appearances, including 26 starts, the 6-foot-8 right-hander posted a 17-4 record and a 1.83 ERA, while fanning 157 batters in 181 2/3 innings. His WHIP was also an impressive 0.886.

Dykxhoorn ranked at the top of almost every significant pitching statistical category for Canucks in the foreign or independent ranks in 2021, including wins, innings pitched, strikeouts and WHIP.

His performance earned him the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2021 Claude Pelletier Award, as top Canuck pitcher in the independent or foreign ranks.

The 2021 campaign was his second with the CPBL’s Lions. In 2020, he posted a 5-3 record and a 5.68 ERA in 13 regular season appearances, including 12 starts. But he would save his best for the postseason, winning both of his starts against the CTBC Brothers in the Taiwan Series, while also saving the seventh-and-deciding game for his club. In all, Dykxhoorn worked 17 innings in the Taiwan Series and permitted just one earned run and was named the Series’ “Outstanding Player.”

The 27-year-old righty was selected in the sixth round of the 2014 MLB draft by the Houston Astros and he toed the rubber for parts of five seasons in their organization before heading overseas.

He has also pitched for the Canadian national team in three international competitions.