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Elliott: Jupiter has 59 Canucks led by Brown, Cadieux-Lanoue, Konings, Lawson, Naylor

Former Etobicoke Ranger RHP David Alvarez (Woodbridge, Ont.) is Team Steel’s best arm.

October 12, 2022

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

We’re sure that there have been some years that there were more Canadians at the Perfect Game WWBA World Championship in Jupiter.

Usually it was the Ontario Blue Jays and the Langley Blaze sent their own teams. Some years Doug Mathieson added some prospects when he was scouting for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Now, he is with the Milwaukee Brewers. The Ontario Jays usually went with their own team.

Yet, never can I remember as many on as many different teams. This month there are 58 Canadians in Jupiter -- from 18 different club teams on six different rosters.

The Ontario Blue Jays had the most players listed with 11, followed by the Great Lake Canadians and Langley Blaze with eight apiece.

There were five Mississauga Tigers, as well as four Toronto Mets and TXNL players, followed by three each from the North Shore Twins. A pair of players came from the Academy Baseball Canada, FieldHouse Pirates, Okotoks Dawgs, Team Steel, Victoria Eagles and Watson Elite.

Teams with one player included the Abbotsford Cardinals, IMG Academy, Ontario Royals, Ontario Terriers and the Team Ontario Astros.

The Wood Bat World championship has 25 different four-team pools at the Roger Dean Complex.

Former big-leaguers -- Luis Alicia, Kyle Farnsworth, Tom Gordon, Ryan Klesko, Charles Johnson, Tim Redding, and Preston Wilson will be on hand.

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Pool A

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

Burn Scout Team 2023 Sammy Mummau 226 2023 Reilly Witmer 106 2023 Sarasota, FL

Stars Baseball Brett Renfrow 346 2023 John Caballero 427 2023 Manassas, VA

Team Indiana Powered by Indiana Bulls Andrew Wiggins 21 2023 Mitchell Dean 176 2023 Indianapolis, IN

Team Steel National Thomas McElwee High Follow 2023 David Alvarez 500 2023 Yaphank, NY

Projected Pool Winner: Burn Scout Team 2023

Canadians in pool

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

- Vinnie Cervino

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Pool D

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

3n2 Sticks Baseball - Brewster/White Sox Scout Team Ethan Murray 21 2024 Minjae Seo 55 2025 Little Rock, AR

Midland Redskins Gustavo Melendez 114 2025 Ethan McElvain 36 2023 Batavia, OH

Slammers Baseball 2023 Carson Tinney 138 2023 Gavin Hasche 500 2023 Englewood, CO

Toronto Blue Jays Scout Team Edward Phelps III 32 2023 Noah Franco 1 2025 Toronto, ON

Projected Pool Winner: 3n2 Sticks Baseball – Brewster/White Sox Scout Team

Canadians in pool

Toronto Blue Jays Scout Team: Zero.

- Cameron McElwaney

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Pool F

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

5 Star National Jacob Kendall 6 2025 Cooper McMullen 174 2024 Warner Robins, GA

Baseball U Prospects James Hankerson 360 2023 Blake Dickerson 163 2023 Howell, NJ

Canes Florida 18U National Sebastian Pisacreta 328 2023 Adonis Smith 475 2024 Vero Beach, FL

USA Prime National Antonio Anderson 18 2023 Ryan McPherson 123 2024 Carrollton, TX

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.

- Blaine Peterson



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Pool N

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

Brewers Langley Blaze Cullen Condon 404 2024 Elliot Cadieux-Lanoue 301 2023 Vancouver, BC

eXposure Prime Anthony Tralongo 46 2024 Cade Oleary 87 2024 Chattanooga, TN

KBC Prime Ethan Williams High Follow 2023 Addison Stockham Top 1000 2023 Lexington, KY

Texas Twelve Blake Mitchell 6 2023 Jackson Brasseux 125 2023 College Station, TX

Projected Pool Winner: Texas Twelve

Former ABC LHP Elliot Cadieux-Lanoue (Saint-Pie, Que.) is rated 302nd among high schoolers in North America for next July.;

What To Look For: Maple Flavor

Brewers Langley Blaze is bringing 19 players to Jupiter from Canada which should be intriguing to watch. The group is led by Iowa commit Elliot Cadieux-Lanoue, ranked 301 in the 2023 class and the No. 1 left-handed pitcher in Canada. Ty Hamilton, Sam Shaw, and Reece Usselman are three other plays with Canadian roots that are committed to D-I programs. We only have a few times throughout the year to get a look at Canadian players and should be a fun team to follow in Jupiter.

Canadians in pool

Brewers Langley Blaze: 1B-RHP Tyler Bono 2023 (Stittsville, Ont.) Watson Elite, LHP Elliot Cadieux-Lanoue 2023 (Saint-Pie, Que.) 302 ABC, Iowa; 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) Victoria Eagles, OF Javee Tagudar 2023 (Burnaby, BC), Langley Blaze, LHP Reece Usselman 2023 (Langley, BC) 500 Oregon, Langley Blaze, RHP-1B Jacob Wallace (Pincourt, Que.) 500 ABC.

- Cameron McElwaney


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Pool O

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

GBG Navy 2023 Anthony Huezo 151 2023 Justin Lee 65 2023 Manhattan Beach, CA

NEB Hunter Carns 67 2024 Matt Hoag 56 2024 Harvard, MA

Sandlot Scout Team Bo Jonas 155 2024 Weston Rouse 264 2023 Tulsa, OK

USA Prime Scout Team Michael Mullinax 4 2024 Bryson Thacker 500 2023 Canton, GA

Projected Pool Winner: GBG Navy

Dark Horse: Northeast Baseball

Based out of Harvard, Mass., Northeast Baseball’s roster goes national with players coming from eight different states, and even one player from Canada Daniel Leonard.

Canadians in pool

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

_ Steve Doherty


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Pool P

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

5 Star Performance 2023 National Dillon Lester 244 2023 Ryler Smart 180 2024 Kilgore, TX

Ontario Blue Jays SS (Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) had committed to the Univerity of Florida.

Canadian Premier Brendan Lawson 48 2024 Matt Brown 487 2024 Ontario, CAN

Cincinnati Reds Scout Team Cal Fisher 99 2023 Brady Louck 192 2023 Cincinnati, OH

Elite Squad Daniel Cuvet 20 2023 Alex Valentin 180 2023 Pembroke Pines, FL

What To Look For: Star Power

Both Canadian Premier and 5 Star Performance 2023 National have high-end talents to keep an eye on. Brendan Lawson (2024, Toronto, Ontario) is draft-eligible in 2023 and should be followed closely on the Canadian Premier team, along with teammate Myles Naylor (2023, Mississauga, Ontario), who continued to establish himself as a legitimate draft prospect throughout the course of the summer circuit.

Great Lake Canadians OF Noah Konings 2023 (Brampton, Ont.) is the top uncommitted player in his pool.

Uncommitted Impact: Noah Konings, Canadian Premier

Konings has been coming on like gangbusters over the course of the last several months, as an uncommitted right-handed hitting outfielder with real tools. He, to be succinct, absolutely rakes and has the peripheral tools to impact the game in a variety of ways. There’s good power in the right-handed stroke and he’s a good athlete with the upside of potentially handling all three outfield spots, and is my pick to be a sneaky huge contributor as an uncommitted player in this pool.

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 Makaio Cisneros 2024 (Whitby, Ont.) 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 Lachlan Harrison 2024 (Mississauga, Ont.) 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 Jack Pineau (Thunder Bay, Ont.) 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.

- Brian Sakowski

Pool S

Team Top Pos. Player RK Class Top Pitcher RK Class Location

East Cobb Astros - Orange Marietta, GA

Ohio Warhawks Erik Parker 28 2024 Boston Bateman 11 2024 Fairborn, OH

Rawlings National Scout Team Giovanni Melchione 500 2023 Andrew Koshy 318 2023 Jericho, NY

USA Prime American Sean Gamble 3 2025 Ryan Lynch 414 2024 Carrollton, TX

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.