Elliott: Five Toronto Mets on Perfect Game's Canada/Puerto Rico First Team
Toronto Mets and Junior National Team member LHP Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.) was selected to the Perfect Game Canada/Puerto Rico First Team. He is pitching with Georgia Premier in Statesboro, Ga.
April 21, 2021
By Bob Elliott
Canadian Baseball Network
Each spring the Perfect Game Scouting Service selects All-American teams for its nine draft regions. The regions cover the 53 areas scouted in North America (50 states, plus Washington, DC, Puerto Rico and Canada).
Canadians and players from Puerto Rico are lumped in the same group for picking an All High School Senior Team. We’re not sure why Canada and Puerto Rico are lumped together for Perfect Game purposes.
Certainly it’s not because of geography. Perhaps it’s because both areas saw their high schoolers become eligible for the draft the same year.
For this spring Toronto Mets coaches Rich Leitch and Darryl Reid had the most players on PG’s Canada/PuertoRico Region First Team with five selected by the scouting service’s set of evaluators.
Named to the first team were LHP Mitchell Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.), LHP Will Droll (Thunder Bay, Ont.), SS Brando Leroux (Markham, Ont.), OF Caden Shapiro (Toronto, Ont.) and RHP Virot Siharath (Keswick, Ont.).
Next best behind the Mets, were the Great Lake Canadians, coached by Adam Stern and Chris Robinson, along with the Ontario Blue Jays, coached by Joey Ellison, Corey Eckstein and Mike Steed.
Great Lake First Teamers are RHP Tanner Dawe (London, Ont.), INF Core Jackson (Wyoming, Ont.), LHP Adam Shoemaker (Cambridge, Ont.) and LHP Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, Ont.), who is now pitching for the TNXL Academy and will pitch for the Ohio Warhawks prior to the July draft. Ziegler is expected to be the top high schooler drafted in Canada.
The four Ontario Blue Jays are 1B Josiah Devapalan (Brampton, Ont.), RHP Nelson Mercado (Brampton, Ont.), OF Glenn Noronha (Mississauga, Ont.) and OF Mateo Zeppieri (Newmarket, Ont.)
The other teams with more than one player selected were the Okotoks Dawgs -- RHP Simon Lusignan (Varennes, Que.) and RHP Andrew Yusypchuk (Edmonton, Alta.) -- and the FieldHouse Pirates -- Emilien Pitre (Repentigny, Que.) and Ben Roberts (Burlington, Ont.).
The distinct areas are the ...
Atlantic Region (which includes players from Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvannia, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia) ...
California ...
Central (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin)
Florida ...
Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, MASSACHUSETTS, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont) ...
Southeast (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee) ...
Texas ...
West (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming) ...
Canada/Puerto Rico ...
On the Honourable Mention list, the Ontario Blue Jays had 12 selections, while the Academy Baseball Canada and the Mets had four apiece.
Canada/PuertoRico Region All High School Senior 1st Team
Name Pos Hometown Summer Commitment Drafted
Mitchell Bratt LHP Newmarket, Ont. Georgia Premier/Toronto Mets Florida State
Tanner Dawe RHP London, Ont. Great Lake Canadians Howard Community College
Jed Decooman RHP North Vancouver, BC Mulgrave Northshore Twins/GBG Marucci Navy UC Santa Barbara
Josiah Devapalan 1B Brampton, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Will Droll LHP Thunder Bay, Ont. St. Toronto Mets Pitt
Dominic Hambley RHP Victoria, BC Victoria Mariners Oregon State
Elijha Hammill SS Oakville, Ont. Georgia Premier/Ontario Terriers Utah
Tyler Herron C Grande Prairie, Alta. St. Albert Cardinals Parkland College
Core Jackson SS Wyoming, Ont. Great Lake Canadians Nebraska
Brando Leroux SS Markham, Ont. Toronto Mets Chipola
Simon Lusignan RHP Varennes, Que. Okotoks Dawgs Academy Stetson
Anson McGorman RHP Parksville, BC Vauxhall Academy Sacramento State
Nelson Mercado RHP Brampton, Ont., Ontario Blue Jays Connors State College
Giordano Mezzomo OF Coquitlam, BC Coquitlam Reds Sacramento State
Glenn Noronha OF Mississauga, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays West Texas A&M
Emilien Pitre SS Repentigny, Que. FieldHouse Pirates Kentucky
Ben Roberts RHP Burlington, Ont., FieldHouse Pirates/Langley Blaze South Carolina-Upstate
Caden Shapiro OF Toronto, Ont. Toronto Mets Princeton
Adam Shoemaker LHP Cambridge, Ont., Great Lake Canadians St. John’s
Virot Siharath RHP Keswick, Ont. Toronto Mets VCU
Loreto Siniscalchi RHP Burnaby, BC Langley Blaze Washington State
Chas Wheatley RHP Edmonton, Alta. Prospects Academy Iowa
Andrew Yusypchuk RHP Edmonton, Alta. Okotoks Dawgs Marshall
Mateo Zeppieri OF Newmarket, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Calvin Ziegler RHP Heidelberg, Ont. TNXL Academy/Ohio Warhawks/Great Lake Canadians Auburn
Honorable Mention
Name Pos Hometown Summer Commitment Drafted
Peter (Bo) Buckley RHP Petrolia, Ont. Great Lake Canadians/The Clubhouse 2021
Noah Chang SS Mississauga, Ont. Mississauga North Tigers
Jackson Clemett OF Calgary, Alta. Vauxhall Academy/Team Rawlings SE Atlanta
Jacob Corby RHP Thornhill, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Maxx Davidson RHP Mississauga, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Martin Ding RHP Calgary, Alta. Okotoks Dawgs
Mason Dobie SS Meaford, Ont. FieldHouse Pirates/Dbacks Langley Blaze Dayton
Bennett Freiter C St. Andrews, Man. Okotoks Dawgs Academy North Dakota State
Jake Heaton C Georgetown, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Lucas Johnson C Burlington, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
RHP Adam Kahn (Aurora, Ont.) of the Toronto Mets
Adam Khan RHP Aurora, Ont. Toronto Mets University of British Columba
Carter Krawchuk RHP St Catharines, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Jaycob Lachance RHP Ste-Anne De La Perade, Que. Academy Baseball Canada
Nathan Laliberte OF Montreal, Que. TNXL Academy/Florida Hurricane Platinum
Haiden Letzing OF Surrey, BC DBacks Langley Blaze
Brodie Mackay SS Oakville, Ont. Ontario Royals Western Kentucky
Michael Malinowski C Scarborough, Ont. Team Ontario Astros
Griffin McMillan 1B Oshawa, Ont. Toronto Mets Lake Michigan
Jacob Miller OF Oshawa, Ont. Toronto Mets
Mackenzie Mitchell SS Toronto, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Julian Parson RHP Mississauga, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays South Carolina-Upstate
Griffin Potter LHP Kincardine, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays Western Nebraska
Jonas Press 1B Toronto, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Nate Rosser RHP Delta, BC North Delta Blue Jays Ohlone College
Jabari Smith SS Toronto, Ont. Butler Baseball Academy
Kevin Spooner RHP Gatineau, Que. Academy Baseball Canada
Dominic Teoli RHP Montreal, Que. TNXL Academy/Academy Baseball Canada
Jeff Tiw RHP Burlington, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Robert Vavaroutsos OF Toronto, Ont. Toronto Mets
Robin Villeneuve 1B Gatineau, Que. Academy Baseball Canada
Ryan Wells RHP Caledon, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays
Matt Wilkenson LHP Delta, BC Okotoks Dawgs/Pacific Northwest Regional Baseball Mix