“Major League Baseball and USA Baseball jointly announced today a new format for the Appalachian League, which will feature the nation’s top rising college freshmen and sophomores in wood-bat play each summer. The new format affirms MLB’s commitment to the region, maintains the existing branding of the league, and assures that the Appalachian League will continue to host high-caliber baseball and future Major Leaguers for years to come.”
Read MoreBetOnline has pegged the Toronto Blue Jays’ odds of winning the World Series at 33-1.
Read MoreThe Toronto Blue Jays will be Canada’s team this MLB post-season, but which of the other 15 teams competing in the expanded playoff format has the most Canadian content? Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew researched this question.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Jordan Romano, Josh Naylor, Cal Quantrill, Joey Votto, Jim Henderson, Billy Harris, Roy Halladay, Tim Raines and Jack Morris.
Read MoreThe National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced Aug. 24 that its Board of Directors has voted unanimously to reschedule this winter’s two Era Committee elections –the Golden Days Era Committee and the Early Baseball Era Committee – as a result of uncertainties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreElliott: R. I. P. Heather Pullen
Read MoreVictoria Eagles and Junior National Team alum Nick Pivetta (Victoria, B.C.) will start for the Boston Red Sox against the Baltimore Orioles tonight at Fenway Park.
Read MoreTo continue our tribute to legendary Montreal Expos scout Gary Hughes who passed away on Saturday at the age of 79 after battling liver cancer, we have decided to re-publish this article written by Danny Gallagher that initially ran on November 14, 2015.
Read MoreThe Chicago Cubs have placed RHP Rowan Wick (North Vancouver, B.C.) on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to September 17) with a left oblique strain.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott pays tribute to beloved former Montreal Expos scout and executive Gary Hughes who passed away on Saturday at the age of 79.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Joey Votto, Tyler O’Neill, James Paxton, Jason Bay, Roy Halladay, Paul Hodgson, Jordan Romano, Willie Upshaw and John Gibbons.
Read MoreNew York Yankees veteran backup catcher Erik Kratz has become a second father to some of the younger members of his club’s pitching staff. He is also batting .321 (9-for-28) for the Bronx Bombers this season. Here’s a feature article that Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott wrote about Kratz that was initially published on October 11, 2018.
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Former Montreal Expos outfielder Tim Raines and his family had theirr orientataion visit to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
Read MoreTracy Ringolsby, from Inside the Seems, reports that former Toronto Blue Jays centre fielder Kevin Pillar is now focused on helping the Colorado Rockies make the post-season.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Rowan Wick, Tyler O’Neill, Joe Carter, Jeff Heath, Dick Fowler, Kevin Reimer and George Kottaras.
Read MoreIt was 55 years ago today that Canadian baseball legend Fergie Jenkins (Chatham, Ont.) made his MLB debut. Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew has the details of Jenkins’ first game.
Read MoreChilliwack Cougars and Junior National Team alum Cade Smith (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been a pre-med student at the University of Hawaii for the past three years. In June, the 6-foot-5, 220-pound right-hander signed as an amateur free agent with the Cleveland Indians and he feels ready to embark on a professional career. Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci shares Smith’s story.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew remembers Tom Seaver and some of the Hall of Fame right-hander’s Canadian connections. Seaver passed away on August 31 at the age of 75.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew remembers Lou Brock and takes a look at the Hall of Famer’s Canadian connections. Brock passed away on Sunday at the age of 81.
Read MoreThe National Baseball Hall of Fame is remembering inductee and St. Louis Cardinals legend Lou Brock who passed away on Sunday at the age of 81.
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