As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, their next “Monday Hot Stove” session on May 11 will feature Minnesota Twins minor league hitting coordinator Donegal Fergus.
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The eyes of the baseball world will shift to Korea today for the start of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season that includes London, Ontario’s Jamie Romak who will be entering his fourth season with SK Wyverns, one of the teams in the 10-team loop.
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Larry Walker will have to wait another year to be formally inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York after the announcement on Wednesday that its Board of Directors had voted unanimously to cancel the 2020 induction ceremonies and postpone to 2021 over concerns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thanks in large part to the coaching he has received through the Ontario Terriers and Junior National Team, Elijha Hammill (Oakville, Ont.) is now preparing to join a strong U.S. collegiate program. He recently announced his commitment to the University of Utah.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they will welcome Jean François Ménard as their featured guest on their next Monday “Hot Stove” session on May 4. An industry leader and expert in mental performance coaching, Menard has worked with numerous world-class athletes and Olympic medal winners including Mikaël Kingsbury, Tessa Virtue and Maxence Parrott along with Super Bowl champion Laurent Duvernay-Tardif and World Champion boxer Marie-Ève Dicaire.
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A pair of Junior National Team outfielders have caught the attention of MLB Pipeline as Owen Caissie (Burlington, Ont.) and David Calabrese (Maple, Ont.) both appear on the list of the top 150 prospects for the 2020 MLB Draft.
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Baseball Canada’s Board of Directors along with the Executive Committee have made the difficult decision to cancel all 2020 Baseball Canada National Championships due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they are pleased to announce that their “Monday Hot Stove” session on April 27 will feature Martijn Nijhoff. An expert in “motor control and movement analysis,” Nijhoff holds the title of Skills Acquisition Consultant with the Pittsburgh Pirates where he primarily works with coaches and instructors in the Player Development system.
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Baseball Canada is expressing its gratitude to its many volunteers during National Volunteer Week.
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The World Children’s Baseball Fair, scheduled for August 14-21, 2020 in Narita, Japan, has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they will welcome Ryan Harrison as their featured guest on their Monday Hot Stove session on April 20. Harrison is a certified sports performance vision trainer who holds a degree in Exercise Physiology from University of California at Davis. For over two decades he has worked with world-class athletes, including those from MLB, NHL, MMA, WTP and PGA among others.
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Attending NCCP (National Coaching Certification Program) training is a rite of passage for many baseball coaches across Canada each spring but the Covid-19 pandemic has made that impossible to achieve. In order to address this challenge and meet the demand for coach education for thousands of baseball coaches, Baseball Canada has made many of their courses available online.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they are pleased to announce that Jerry Weinstein, from the Colorado Rockies scouting and player development department, will be their “Monday Hot Stove” featured guest on April 13.
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Baseball Canada has announced its 2019 Women’s National Team award winners.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they are pleased to announce their third “Monday Hot Stove” session - an interactive gathering of coaches in a relaxed online environment with a subject matter expert. On Monday April 6 at 8 p.m. E.T., they will welcome San Francisco Giants coach Kai Correa as their guest.
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The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) announced today the postponement of the Women’s Baseball World Cup due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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“Negative experiences with his coaches drove a teenage Marco Bianchi out of baseball, and he regretted it for years. When he later became a coach with Toronto Playgrounds Baseball, Bianchi was determined that every one of his players would feel valued and respected. “I wanted to coach so I can ensure that people never stop loving the game and want to play it for years to come,” said Bianchi, Baseball Ontario’s 2019 Rep 14U and above Coach of the Year.”
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Today is former American League all-star and current Baseball Canada president Jason Dickson’s 47th birthday. To commemorate this, we thought we would resurrect this article that was originally published on January 15th of this year.
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As part of Baseball Canada’s continuous efforts to provide coach education to their members, they are pleased to announce their second “Monday’s Hot Stove” session - an interactive gathering of coaches in a relaxed online environment with a subject matter expert. On Monday, March 30, at 8 p.m. E.T., Baseball Canada will welcome Cincinnati Reds pitching coach Derek Johnson as their guest.
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The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), backed by their Athletes’ Commissions, National Sports Organizations and the Government of Canada, have made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams - including the senior national baseball team - to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020.
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