Hometown hurler Jack Pineau is one of the first three players the Thunder Bay Border Cats have signed for the 2024 season.
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“Matt Coutney remembers the exact moment when he realized that professional baseball was going to be a grind.
In his final two seasons at Old Dominion University (2021-2022), the Wetaskiwin product played a total of 117 games.
On his way to playing 121 games in 2023 in the Los Angeles Angels’ farm system, it was a roadtrip to California when he started to understand what many others had told him about life in the pros.
“It was game 32 and I was thinking to myself, ‘I have 100 games left – there’s no way I’m going to be able to make it through this,’” Coutney told Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast. “As the year goes on, you hit certain benchmarks – you make it another week, you make it another month – and the next think you know, the season is over.”
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The Ottawa Titans have signed catcher Carson Barker (Alliston, Ont.).
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Slugger Kole Cottam, whose family is from Burlington, Ont., is the winner of the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2023 Murray Zuk Award winner, as the top Canadian hitter in the foreign or independent pro ranks.
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Toronto Mets alum Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ont.) was in Arizona at the Milwaukee Brewers facility when he found out he’d been named the Canadian Baseball Network Randy Echlin Award winner as the top Canadian hitter in the affiliated ranks.
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Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions ace Brock Dykxhoorn (Goderich, Ont.) has won the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2023 Claude Pelletier Award, as the top Canuck pitcher in the independent or foreign pro ranks.
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Abbotsford Cardinals alum and Cleveland Guardians pitching prospect Cade Smith (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2023 Wayne Norton Award winner, as top Canadian pitcher in the affiliated minor league ranks.
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Great Lake Canadians and Junior National Team alum and former Baltimore Orioles prospect Adam Hall (London, Ont.) has signed with the Winnipeg Goldeyes.
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The Canadian Baseball Network named the winners of its 2023 awards for top Canadian minor league hitter and pitcher and top foreign/independent ball hitter and pitcher on Friday.
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“It won’t be long before Landen Bourassa has the key to the city in Winnipeg.
The Lethbridge, Alta., native has become a staple of the starting rotation for the independent American Association’s Winnipeg Goldeyes over the past three years, while taking pride in becoming an involved member of the sports community.
In that time, he has posted a 20-11 record with a 4.17 ERA in 43 games for the Goldeyes, and is set to improve those numbers as he has a new contract with the team for 2024.”
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“If you look across Canada, you will see a wide array of teams from coast to coast — from travel ball teams such as the Ontario Blue Jays out to the prairies, where the Medicine Hat Mavericks suit up in the Western Canadian Baseball League.
For Cheltenham, Ont. product Kyle MacKinnon, these teams were just some of the organizations that were stepping stones for his newest opportunity. He was recently named the assistant hitting coach of the Columbia Fireflies, the single-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals.”
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Final 2023 minor league/affiliated top 10 Canuck stats
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Who will be the first Canadian to make their major league debut in 2024?
Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts offers three strong candidates.
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“I like to think that I was always going to be someone who really tries to push boundaries and tries to make things happen in whatever I want to do,” Women’s National Team great and Vancouver Canadians coach Ashley Stephenson (Mississauga, Ont.) recently told Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge. “I don’t want to be mediocre at things, I want to be exceptional at things. And sometimes to do that you’ve got to take scary steps.”
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Former Ontario Blue Jays and Thunder Bay Border Cats coach Mike Steed (Lincoln, Ont.) will return as the pitching coach for the Atlanta Braves High-A Rome Emperors in 2024.
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Former Ontario Blue Jays coach Kyle MacKinnon (Cheltenham, Ont.) has been hired by the Kansas City Royals to serve as assistant hitting coach for their class-A Columbia Fireflies.
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The Winnipeg Goldeyes have re-signed left-hander Travis Seabrooke (Peterborough, Ont.).
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The Ottawa Titans have signed veteran left-hander Evan Grills (Whitby, Ont.).
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“When he looks back on 2023, Tristan Peters says it was a good year, but he believes he can have an even better one.
The Winkler, Manitoba native seems poised for another jump in his professional baseball journey, potentially setting himself up for a Major League Baseball (MLB) call-up, after what can only be described as a whirlwind last 12 months.”
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge recently caught up with Dong Lien, who after working as a strength and conditioning coach for the Philadelphia Phillies, has returned to his Canadian roots and is helping young players with the Langley Blaze and North Shore Twins.
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