“The journey to Division 1 Baseball is a road that only a select group of Canadian players find themselves on.
Hundreds if not thousands of high school players compete across Canada each year, but just 213 Canucks are playing D1 baseball in 2025.
Caleb Clark (Orillia, Ont.) is one of the 213, and the road to get to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was full of twists and turns.”
Read More“Perhaps you’ve been preoccupied with the ghosting of Shedeur Sanders or the octagon that’s become the Montreal Canadiens’ bench area. Understandable, but Eugenio Suarez did something Saturday night that shouldn’t have been swept underneath our brains, but was.
He became only the 19th hitter in the history of Major League Baseball to hit four home runs in the same game.”
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Tyson Shushkewich provides a recap of the Junior National Team’s Extended Spring Training Camp that took place in Florida last week.
Read MoreThe Abbotsford Cardinals have retired the No. 47 in honour of their longtime director of player development Corey Eckstein, who is now the president of the Ontario Blue Jays.
Read More“Roughly an hour and a half north of Toronto, Orillia is home to many things, including the Ontario Provincial Police headquarters, former Ontario Premier Leslie Frost, and singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed in 2023.
The city is central to a few surrounding communities, such as Oro-Medonte, Severn, Rama, and Washago. Teens come into the city to go to school, participate in sports, or other activities that the smaller communities don’t host.
Known as the “Sunshine City,” Orillia, with its population of a little over 33,000, lives up to this name during the summer months when the local ball diamonds are full from the afternoon until the lights get shut off near midnight. “
Read More“What are the odds of finding the top-rated draft-eligible Canuck less than 15 weeks before the annual selection of high schoolers and collegians?
Over the years, we have found a few, yet we never have we found anything like this:
Santa Barbara Gauchos RHP Tyler Bremner.
Tyler was born in San Diego. His parents are Jason Bremner, of Mississauga, and Jennifer, of Queensville, Ont., north of Newmarket. They now call southern California home.
Tyler has a Canadian passport.
And he’s really good ... no, we mean really, really good.”
Read MoreThe Junior National Team opened their Extended Spring Training Camp in Florida with a 3-1 loss to the Pirates at Pirate City in Bradenton, Fla.
Read More“Among the trophies Fernando Tatis Jr. was supposed to be cramming into his attic by now was not the one for Comeback of the Year.
Not long ago he was hitting baseballs out of sight, 42 of them in 2021. Then he disappeared, too. It doesn’t take long for today’s sensation to become tomorrow’s footnote. Tatis didn’t play in 2022, missed 21 games the next year and 60 games last year, thanks to a shoulder problem. Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge took over baseball’s marquee.
They are still there, but Tatis is again sending out drives that might knock their letters off, or maybe into a lower row.”
Read MoreOn Jackie Robinson Day, we remember the courageous trailblazer that Jackie Robinson was and how his season with the Montreal Royals in 1946 before he broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier was so important to him.
Read MoreGreat Lake Canadians alum Tate Carey (Windsor, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s college Player of the Week after he tossed a no-hitter in his first college start for the University of Michigan.
Read More“The stakes were high for a young Shaye McTavish growing up in the McTavish family household.
Give it his all outside in an intense game of backyard baseball or inside at a Christmas family card game — or risk losing to his siblings in his hometown of Lethbridge Alta,
That’s where Shaye McTavish, who ranks second among Canadians in strikeouts in the NAIA this season, got his first taste of competition, and his first desire for victory.”
Read MoreBob Elliott shares his list of the top 50 six-figure signing bonuses that Canadian players have received from major league teams.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs Academy alum Eric Hartman (St. Albert, Alta.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s minor league Player of Week after he went 6-for-14 with two home runs - including a walk-off homer on Sunday - in three games with the Atlanta Braves’ class-A Augusta GreenJackets.
Read MoreThere’s a new player atop the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2025 Draft List. His name is Slater de Brun. The speedy outfielder lives in Bend, Ore., but thanks to his mom has a Canadian passport and would be eligible to play for Canada in the World Baseball Classic.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Canadians in the U.S. college ranks from the past week in his latest “Big Man on Campus (BMOC)” column.
Read MoreToronto Mets alum Connor Hicks (Toronto, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s college Player of the Week after he registered 12 hits in four games for the Southeastern University Fire.
Read MoreFormer Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Rob Butler (East York, Ont.) has been named GM and head coach of the Ontario Devil Rays 18U team.
Read MoreHere it is. Our 2024 list of the 135 most influential Canadians in baseball.
Read MoreBy now, major league teams have released their 2025 promotional schedules. Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker has suggested some additions.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays unveiled their 2025 promotions schedule on Saturday.
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