A list of the Canadians selected in the 1986 MLB draft.
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Nick Lee, of the East Village Times, offers his thoughts on where hard-hitting Canadian prospect Josh Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) should fit into the San Diego Padres’ plans this season.
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Toronto Blue Jays pitching prospect Andrew Case (Saint John, N.B.) has retired.
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CBN POW, Week II: Cal Quantrill
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor George Farelli summarizes all of the minor league transactions involving Canadians from the past week.
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Charles Leblanc (Laval, Que.) had nine hits and batted .429 for the Texas Rangers’ double-A Frisco RoughRiders to earn himself Canadian Baseball Network minor league player of the week honours.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor George Farelli summarizes the minor league transactions involving Canadians from the past week.
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His given name is Noah-Gibson James Washington Naylor. Thanks to an older brother who as a toddler called him “Boah” because he couldn’t quite wrap his tongue around Noah, he became Bo. Now preferring to go by that catchy contraction, former Ontario Blue Jay Bo Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) is the top catching prospect in the Cleveland Indians organization and a player worth watching on the Lake County Captains.
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Canuck moves: John Axford, David Chavarria, Adam Hall, Daniel Procopio, Mike Soroka and Jesen Therrien.
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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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Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Paul Hodgson, Dalton Pompey, John Axford, Michael Saunders, Tyler O’Neill, Jordan Romano, Jim Adduci and Rowan Wick.
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JNT spring: Owen Diodati, Ryan Leitch, Ayden Makarus go for extra base hits against Yankees, while Mitch Robinson (Surrey, BC) went deep for the Pin-Striped Prospects.
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Scott Thorman (Cambridge, Ont.) wins KC's Dick Howser award
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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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Former Canadian Junior National Team member Demi Orimoloye has traveled the world playing baseball, but coming to Dunedin is a first for him. The 22-year-old outfielder from Nigeria, who moved to Ottawa when he was two months old, has excelled in track and field, basketball, and football, but he didn’t pick up baseball until he began playing it for fun when he was 10.
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor George Farelli summarizes the major league and minor league transactions involving Canadians from the month of February.
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As he enters his third spring training and fourth professional season overall, former Okotoks Dawgs first baseman Bruce Yari (Waterloo, Ont.) still fondly remembers his time in Okotoks, and says his Dawgs experience has benefited him in his time as a Cincinnati Reds prospect.
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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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Two Canadians have been ranked among the top 50 right-handed pitching prospects by Baseball America. Both Canucks - Mike Soroka (Calgary, Alta.), ranked No. 8, and Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.), ranked No. 41, - are former Junior National Team members and seem to be on the cusp of big league breakthroughs in 2019.
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Amateur umpire Bobby Pepall had a question about tracking outs as a base umpire. He reached out to Canada’s growing roster of professional baseball umpires for an answer. This is one example of an “umpires’ bond” being formed following the creation of the Canadian Baseball Umpire Camps (CBUC) last year.
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