Left-hander Justin Thorsteinson (Richmond, B.C.) entered Tournament 12 hoping to show scouts, and the Canadian baseball community as a whole, that he's a force at the plate and on the mound. He spoke with Canadian Baseball Network writer Nick Ashbourne prior to the tournament.
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Due to a symmetrical design that lacks for nooks and crannies, Rogers Centre is an awful ballpark for hitting triples, but you wouldn't know it from the way Ontario Black went to work on Monday.
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Denzel Clarke has the kind of athleticism likely to impress at Tournament 12, but perhaps his best tool lies squarely between his ears.
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Jaden Griffin has been on the move a lot since he made his Tournament 12 debut last season and he's learned a lot about pitching.
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A five-RBI day from Adam Estey provided the offence as Atlantic Maroon dropped Prairies Purple 9-0 in the Tournament 12 opener on Friday at Rogers Centre.
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As a minor-league baseball player if you're lucky you get one breakout year where things click and you start to put it all together and figure out what it takes to be a successful pro. At the age of 21 Seattle Mariners prospect Tyler O'Neill has already had two.
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Jameson Taillon finally took the mound at PNC park. He was neither dominant nor dreadful registering a quality start with three earned runs allowed over six innings striking out three and walking two.
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This website was created to tell stories about Canadian baseball and whether Bob Elliott likes it or not, this week the biggest news in that world is the country’s top baseball writer hanging up his proverbial cleats.
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As Calgary, Alta., native Jim Henderson is finding out this season, there's nothing wrong with being a blunt instrument on the mound.
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Right now, the Toronto Blue Jays are in a predicament where the human element and the optimal use of resources are coming into conflict.
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If it seems like a long time has passed since Adam Loewen became the highest-drafted Canadian of all time that's because it has.
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It's been exactly 10 years to the day since the Toronto Blue Jays signed a starting pitcher by the name of Allan James Burnett.
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Whether it's head-to-head, rotisserie, ottoneu, "beat the streak" or daily fantasy there are seemingly countless ways for armchair general managers to get their fix. Toronto native Daryl Andrews believes he's created one more.
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It's been 1576 days since Brett Lawrie debuted with the Toronto Blue Jays and he isn't a star yet. At this point it's wildly improbable that he ever will be. That doesn't mean the Athletics should get rid of him.
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It was only three days ago the Toronto Blue Jays were a championship-calibre team fighting tooth-and-nail for a World Series berth; and now they are a franchise weathering an avalanche of question marks.
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Now that the Blue Jays have opened some eyes, the question of just how good this offence is remains. It seems like a very simple question, but the answer is surprisingly complex.
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The Blue Jays-Yankees matchup is a very tough one for a very simple reason: New York is built to stifle right-handed hitting.
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