Canadian Baseball Network contributor Cam Black-Araujo recently caught up with Oakville, Ont., native Dasan Brown who is the top Canadian prospect heading into this year’s MLB draft which begins on Monday.
Read MoreBaseball Canada’s Adam Morissette provides a guide to the 2019 MLB Draft that starts today and runs through Wednesday.
Read MoreIt has been more than six years since former Junior National Team pitcher Jake Eliopoulos died, but his family and friends are still raising money for mental health initiatives in his memory. His father, Jim, and the rest of Team Jake will participate in the Mental Health in Motion ride in Newmarket on June 23. Here are details on how you can support them.
Read MoreCarter Morris (Vernon, B.C.) turned in four solid innings on the mound while Dasan Brown (Oakville, Ont.) drove in three runs to lead the Junior National Team to a 12-7 win over the Dominican Summer League Rockies on Saturday, in what was the 13th and final game on the DSL tour.
Read MoreFacing their 11th and 12th games in the last eight days, the Junior National Team made the 45-minute ride to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ historic complex in the Dominican Republic for an early morning contest on Friday before traveling to Boca Chica in the afternoon to face the Dominican Summer League (DSL) Reds in the afternoon.
Read MoreThe Dominican Summer League tour is entering its final stages as Saturday’s finale draws near but the Junior National Team still has business to take care of before then, including Thursday’s match-up with the DSL Mets that ended in a 5-5 tie.
Read MoreWith their eighth and ninth games in six days and third doubleheader in five days, the Junior National Team’s offence showed little in the way of fatigue as the club recorded 20 hits in games against the Dominican Summer League’s Twins and Yankees on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe Dominican Summer League (DSL) tour entered the halfway mark on Tuesday with the Junior National Team falling to the Tampa Bay Rays’ Dominican prospects, 7-3.
Read MoreFormer National Team player and coach Shawn Bowman (Coquitlam, BC) led his Dominican Summer League Pirates to a 9-7 win on Monday morning to snap the Junior National Team’s four-game winning streak, while the afternoon contest saw the Toronto Blue Jays’ Dominican prospects come away with an 8-3 win.
Read MoreEric Martin (Kitchener, Ont.) and Cesar Valero (Calgary, Alta.) each knocked in a pair of runs as the Junior National Team hung on to defeat the Dominican Summer League (DSL) Mariners, 6-5 on Sunday to keep their perfect record intact through three days of the Dominican Summer League tour at 4-0.
Read MoreThe Canadian Junior National Team swept a doubleheader in Dominican Summer League tour action on Saturday to move to 3-0 after two days on the island.
Read MoreTJ Schofield-Sam (Brampton, Ont.) blasted a two-run homer while Connor O’Halloran (Mississauga, Ont.) and Jack Seward (Port Moody, B.C.) turned in solid performances on the mound to lead the Junior National Team to a 7-4 win over the Dominican Summer League (DSL) Brewers on Friday.
Read MoreReigning Women’s National Team Most Valuable Player Daphnée Gélinas (Repentigny, Que.) picked up some more hardware on Wednesday evening as she was presented with “International Team Sport Athlete” award at the 46th annual Sport Québec Gala in Montréal.
Read MoreBaseball Canada has announced the names of 26 athletes that have been invited to the Junior National Team’s (U18) annual tour through the Dominican Summer League (DSL) from May 17-25.
Read MoreJunior National Team alum Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.) is set to make his major league debut for the San Diego Padres tonight.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team put up a five-run sixth inning and swatted out 10 hits against their professional counterparts, but ended up falling to a prospects squad from the Washington Nationals organization, 10-6, in extended spring training play on Thursday.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team put up eight hits including a two-run triple off the bat of Dasan Brown (Oakville, Ont.) but fell to a prospects squad from the Houston Astros organization, 7-3.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team went toe-to-toe with a prospects squad from the Washington Nationals’ organization in the hit department but fell short on the scoreboard coming up on the short end of a 13-2 result on Monday.
Read MoreThe Fort Lauderdale Stars rallied late to defeat the Junior National Team on Saturday and on Sunday the tides turned as the juniors scored a pair of runs in the eighth inning to earn a come-from-behind, 5-4, win in extended spring training action.
Read MoreA two out triple in the top of the ninth scored three runs to break a 1-1 tie and the Fort Lauderdale Stars hung on to defeat the Junior National Team, 4-1, as the extended spring training camp continued at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches on Saturday.
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