For Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Matt Shoemaker’s season-ending injury in Oakland on Saturday brought back memories of an injury Dave Stieb suffered in the same stadium in 1991.
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Elliott: Hazel Mae (Etobicoke, Ont.) was first talent hire by MLB Network, now in 10th season
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During the spring they are separated by three time zones. And when they are at home the difference is greater ... four time zones. Yet, on Wednesday despite their different locales both Vauxhall and Nanaimo Pirates grad RHP Josh Burgmann and Dartmouth Moosehead Dry’s OF Jake Sanford were named to the Golden Spikes Award mid-season watch list by USA Baseball.
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Left-handed pitching prospect Kellan Tulio should be familiar with setting the bar. He’s from Emmaus, Penn., about half an hour south of Allentown and north of Philadelphia. His mom, Julie White, who was a Canadian Olympian, certainly knows all about setting the bar high and clearing it.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott writes that a team of Seattle Mariners prospects and the Langley Blaze impressed on and off the field in the second annual Wayne Norton Memorial game.
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Elliott: Geoff Scott saved my life
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott writes that Baseball America scouts like Canadians Tanner Dalton, Indigo Diaz, Matt Lloyd, Connor Morro, Nick Trogrlic-Iverson and Jason Willow.
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With Landon Leach (Pickering, Ont.) and Jordan Balazovic (Mississauga, Ont.), the Minnesota Twins might have the best 1-2 Canadian punch in same minor-league system.
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The Major League Scouting Bureau -- and its travelling road show it produced each winter and each spring -- has long since disbanded. Yet, amateur scouts still made the trek -- six stops in four provinces -- looking for the best high schoolers last month. This year’s draft takes place June 3-to-5. We asked a number of scouts on the trip, just who had the best outing ... improved their stock?
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott shares his memories of Hall of Famer and Pittsburgh Pirates World Series hero Bill Mazeroski.
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Elliott: Lou Pote saved my life
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The walls of the eighth floor cardio unit at Foothills Hospital are narrow. Especially when you have rehabbing heart patients walking with their pals -- an IV with five wheels on the bottom spinning every which way -- plus beds and a mobile nurse’s station against the wall. It was an easy trip for Calgary Flames centreman Mark Jankowski, all 6-foot-4 and 212 pounds of him, as he stopped by Sunday afternoon to visit with his old baseball coach, Bob Elliott.
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When the 2016 draft took place RHP Jordan Balazovic (Mississauga, Ont.) was the fifth Canadian selected. The Canuck hurler is now ranked as the Minnesota Twins’ third best prospect by ESPN’s Keith Law and the 102nd overall prospect.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott pays tribute to his long-time colleague and friend “Nico” Cafardo who passed away on Thursday at the age of 62.
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Regina Expos and RBI Training Center grad Spencer Davis (Regina, Sask.) is off to pitch for the Arizona Christian University Firestorm.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott reflects on the time he interviewed country music superstar Garth Brooks.
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With Bo Levi Mitchell signing a new deal with the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders, we thought we’d dig into our vault and re-run this article that was originally published on June 25, 2018.
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A health update on Bob Elliott for February 12.
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Perfect Game’s top 100 recruiting class of high schoolers for universities in the spring of 2019 has 10 incoming Canadian freshmen. They will join 29 Canucks already on the rosters of the top 100 teams. And looking at the Letter of Intent page another 10 -- and counting -- are set to join the top 100 teams in 2020 or 2021. All in all, that’s 49 Canadians listed on the rosters of schools Perfect Game has ranked among 2019 top recruiting classes.
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A message and an update from Canadian Baseball Network founder Bob Elliott.
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