October 16, 2022

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

Makaio Cisneros, plus relievers Lachlan Harrison and Jack Pineau of Canadian Premier were at their stingiest best in a 1-1 tie against the Cincinnati Reds Scout Team.

Canadian Premier finished round-robin play in the annual Perfect Game World Wood Bat championship at Juliter, Fla. with a 1-1-1 record.

In all, 59 Canucks were at the high school event of the year for players heading into next July’s draft.

With the conclusion of round-robin play, the teams who qualified continued on into consolation play.

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Team Steel National lost its final round-robin game, a 2-0 setback to Team Indiana Powered by Indiana Bulls.

Pool A PCT W-L-T RA RS

Burn Scout Team .833 2-0-1 3 15

Team Indiana .500 1-1-1 6 4

Stars Baseball .500 1-1-1 14 7

Team Steel National .167 0-2-1 10 7

Canadians in pool

Team Steel: RHP David Alvarez (Woodbridge, Ont.) committed to Florida Atlantic and RHP Lucas Roberts (Toronto, Ont.).

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Canes Florida 18U National edged Baseball U Prospects 3-1 in its final game of round robin play.

Pool F PCT W-L-T RA RS

USA Prime National .667 2-1-0 8 9

Canes Florida 18U National .667 2-1-0 7 11

Baseball U Prospects .333 1-2-0 5 5

5 Star National - Black .333 1=2-0 7 2

Canadians in pool

Canes Florida _ OF-INF Charles Davalan (St-Bruno-De-Montarville, Que.) TNXL Academy 492 Florida Gulf Coast, 1B Ty Doucette (Dartmouth, NS) Okotoks Dawgs, Oregon State; LHP Cameron Johnson (Burlington, Ont.) IMG Academy.

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Both LHPs Elliot Cadieux Lanoue Elliot Cadieux-Lanoue (Saint-Pie, Que.) and Reece Usselman (Langley, BC) pitched in a 2-1 loss to eXposure Prime.

Pool N PCT W-L-T RA RS

Texas Twelve 1.000 3-0-0 3 13

eXposure Prime .667 2-1-0 7 9

Brewers Langley Blaze .333 1-2-0 7 11

KBC Prime .000 0-0-0 22 6

Canadians in pool

Brewers Langley Blaze: 1B-RHP Tyler Bono 2023 (Stittsville, Ont.) Watson Elite, INF Zach Cavanagh 2024 (Chilliwack, BC) Top 1000 Abbotsford Cardinals, RHP-INF Owen Fernandes 2024 (Maple Ridge, BC) High Follow, Langley Blaze, RHP Nick Frers 2023 (North Vancouver, BC) 2024 North Shore Twins, INF Austin Goesen 2023 (North Vancouver, BC), Langley Blaze, SS Tyrus Hall 2023 (Victoria, BC) Victoria Eagles, OF-LHP Ty Hamilton 2023 (Ottawa, Ont.) 500 Watson Elite, C-OF Asher Herbert 2023 (Burnaby, BC) Top 1000 Delta Blue Jays, INF Ian Huang 2024 (Surrey, BC) Langley Blaze, OF Asafa Jones 2024 (Toronto, Ont.) TNXL Academy, 3B-RHP Briggham Kokotailo 2024 (Langley, BC), Langley Blaze, C-3B Noah Laird (Langley, BC) Langley Blaze, C Cam Macleod 2023 (North Vancouver, BC) North Shore Twins, OF Elijah Olaybal 2023 (Langley, BC) Langley Blaze, INF-OF Sam Shaw 2023 (Victoria, BC) 482 Victoria Eagles, OF Javee Tagudar 2023 (Burnaby, BC), Langley Blaze, RHP-1B Jacob Wallace (Pincourt, Que.) 500 ABC, Cadieux-Lanoue 2023 302 ABC, Iowa and Usselman 2023 500 Oregon, Langley Blaze.

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NEB finished round-robin play with a 6-6 tie against USA Prime Scout Team.

Pool O PCT W=L-T RA RS

USA Prime Scout Team .833 2-0-1 8 13

Sandlot Scout Team .500 1-1-1 3 6

NEB .333 0-1-2 7 6

GBG Navy 2023 .333 1-2-0 9 2

Canadians in pool

NEB _ OF Daniel Leonard (Oakville, Ont.) FieldHouse Pirates.

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Ontario Blue Jays LHP Lachlan Harrison (Mississauga, Ont.) pitched for Canadian Premier in a 1-1 tie.

RHP starter Cisneros 2024 (Whitby, Ont.) of the Ontario Blue Jays, plus relievers LHP Harrison (Mississauga, Ont.) of the Ontario Blue Jays, as well as RHP Pineau (Thunder Bay, Ont.) of the Toronto Mets, held the bats of the Cincinnati Reds Scout Team at bay.

Cisneros pitched three innings, allowing one hit and fanning six. Next out of the bullpen was Harrison and Pineau pitched the final two innings. Keaton Cottam (Burlington, of the FieldHouse Pirates singled in the only run for Canadian Premier.

Pool P PCT W-L-T RA RS

5 Star Performance .667 2-1-0 15 11

Cincinnati Reds Scout Team .500 1-1-1 4 3

Canadian Premier .500 1-1-1 8 11

Elite Squad .333 1-2-0 10 12

Canadians in pool

Canadian Premier _ RHP Seth Ainsworth 2024 (Sarnia, Ont.) Great Lake Canadians, RHP Matt Brown 2024 (Carlisle, Ont.) 490 Ontario Blue Jays, RHP Parker Burgess 2023 TNXL Academy (Douro-Dummer, Ont.) 500 Illinois, RHP Tate Carey 2024 (Windsor, Ont.) 500, Great Lake Canadians, RHP Cisneros 2024 500 Ontario Blue Jays, C-3B Keaton Cottam 2023 (Burlington, Ont.) Top 1000 FieldHouse Pirates, RHP Liam Cruickshank (Mississauga, Ont.) 500 Ontario Blue Jays, RHP Matthew Donnison 2023 (Niagara Falls, Ont.) Top 1000 Great Lake Canadians, Illinois State, OF Matt Evans (Tillsonburg, Ont.) Nebraska, Great Lake Canadians, C Connor Gaitens 2023 (Tillsonburg, Ont.), Great Lake Canadians, OF Ashton Graff-Rowe 2023 (Waterloo, Ont.) Top 1000 Great Lake Canadians, INF Evan Gunn 2023 (Oshawa, Ont.) Top 1000 Team Ontario Astros, LHP-OF Harrison 2024 500 Ontario Blue Jays, 3B-RHP Tyson Kaufman 2023 (Drumbo, Ont.) Top 1000 Great Lake Canadians, 1B-OF Alex Kean 2023 (Woodstock, Ont.) Top 1000 Morehead State, Ontario Blue Jays, OF Noah Konings 2023 (Brampton, Ont.) Great Lake Canadians, SS Brendan Lawson 2024 (Toronto, Ont.) 48 Florida, Ontario Blue Jays, 3B Myles Naylor 2023 (Mississauga, Ont.) 121 Texas Tech, Ontario Blue Jays, OF Keegan O’Hearn 2023 (Oshawa, Ont.) Ontario Terriers, BJ Peart 2023 (Markham (Ont.) Top 1000 Evansville Toronto Mets, SS Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) Top 1000, Ontario Blue Jays, RHP Pineau Toronto Mets, C-INF Brayden Ricketts 2024 (Brampton, Ont.) Top 1000 Ontario Blue Jays, RHP Mac Robertson 2023 (Oshawa, Ont.) Top 1000 Toronto Mets, RHP Zev Salsberg 2024 (Toronto, Ont.) Ontario Royals, RHP Matthew Sargeant 2023 (Ancaster, Ont.) Top 1000 North Dakota State Ontario Blue Jays, OF Jorge Valdes 2024 (Milton, Ont.) Top 1000 West Virginia, Ontario Blue Jays.

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The Ohio Warhawks lost 1-0 to the Rawlings National Scout Team.

Pool S PCT W-L-T RA RS

Rawlings National .667 2-1-0 4 5

Ohio Warhawks .667 2-1-0 5 6

USA Prime American .333 1-2-0 10 8

East Cobb Astros .333 1-2-0 7 7

Canadians in pool

Warhawks _ SS Jack Lines TNXL Academy (Okotoks, Alta.) Tennessee

Rawlings National Scout Team _ 3B Stefan Di Corrado 2024 (Mississauga, Ont.) Toronto Mets, LHP Kieran Glassford 2024 (Burlington, Ont.) Mississauga Tigers, RHP Wesley Johnston 2024 (Toronto, Ont.) High Follow, Mississauga Tigers, INF Cole Leclair (Toronto, Ont.) 500, Mississauga Tigers, RHP Ryan Marton (Scarborough, Ont.) Top 1000, Mississauga Tigers, OF-C David Stanley 2023 (Toronto, Ont.) 500, Mississauga Tigers.

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Scout’s Notes

Makaio Cisneros (2024, Whitby, Ont.) was dominant in the start for the Canadian Premier team against a very talented Cincinnati Reds Scout Team offense. The 6-foot-2, 165-pound right-hander tossed three innings, allowing only one hit, and striking out six. He looked under control and commanded the baseball to both sides with three pitches. The fastball got up to 88 mph with even more coming as he continues to add strength onto an uber-projectable frame. The changeup had tons of arm-side fade and a tight breaking ball was landed on the glove side corner consistently. He went to the breaking ball in later counts off the plate and got whiffs for strikeouts, as well. The arm action is long and loose with advanced command of the baseball. Cisneros can really pitch and should be a name that jumps on the radar very soon.

Keaton Cottam (2023, Burlington, Ont.) is an uncommitted backstop playing with the Canadian Premier club this week, and he continues to impress with his defensive tools behind the plate while also having consistently competitive at-bats at the plate. He’s a long, lean catcher with good room to fill on his frame, and he shows the necessary movement ability behind the plate to project as a high-level defender at the collegiate level, to go along with good twitch out of his crouch, a quick release and a solid throwing arm. He’s capable of popping consistently in the two-flat range right now. Offensively, Cottam had a huge RBI single to tie this game at 1-1 in the late innings, and he’s done a good job of owning the strike zone this week, seeing lots of pitches per at-bat and understanding his swing zones well. The body projects to add serious strength and there will be some power to the profile eventually as a result, and a catcher who can defend like he can shouldn’t be uncommitted as a senior.

RHP Jack Pineau (Thunder Bay, Ont.) of the Toronto Mets impressed at Jupiter.

Another uncommitted Canadian Premier player who has continued to impress me across multiple looks in the last several months is Jack Pineau (2023, Thunder Bay, Ont.). Pineau is an established strike-thrower, pounding the zone at or near a 70% clip every time I’ve seen him, usually touching 90-91 early on before settling into the 86-89 mph range with the fastball. He’s slender at 6-foot-2, 175 pounds, with good room to fill on the frame, and he does a good job of repeating a mostly compact delivery on the mound. His go-to secondary is the changeup, thrown with conviction and the ability to throw it for strikes as well as down out of the zone for chase, doing a good job of working the fastball to one side of the plate and following it up with a changeup to the opposite edge. His strike-throwing ability and mastery of at least one secondary, along with quality fastball velocity, gives him the chance to be an immediate contributor on the mound at the college level, and the projection on his frame makes his upside quality as well.

- Brian Sakowski