Mark Whicker: With “good vibes only,” Suarez becomes latest to belt four homers in MLB game
“Perhaps you’ve been preoccupied with the ghosting of Shedeur Sanders or the octagon that’s become the Montreal Canadiens’ bench area. Understandable, but Eugenio Suarez did something Saturday night that shouldn’t have been swept underneath our brains, but was.
He became only the 19th hitter in the history of Major League Baseball to hit four home runs in the same game.”
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Gallagher: Grudzielanek's two sons eligible for MLB draft
Two of former Montreal Expos infielder Mark Grudzielanek’s sons are eligible for the 2025 MLB draft.
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Canadian ball hall set to open for season on Thursday
The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame will open its doors for the season on Thursday.
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BWDIK: Guerrero Jr., Pivetta, Robson, Smith, Soroka, Upshaw, Whitt
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Nick Pivetta, Cade Smith, Michael Soroka, Ernie Whitt, Nolan Ryan, Jacob Robson and Willie Upshaw.
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Kennedy: Brash nearing return to Mariners
Canadian Baseball Network writer Patrick Kennedy recently spoke with Seattle Mariners reliever Matt Brash (Kingston, Ont.), who is close to his return from the Tommy John Surgery he underwent last May.
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Gallagher: Expos Fest promises to be an excellent event
Former right-hander Ray Burris is a last-minute addition to a star-studded cast of former Expos coming to Laval, Quebec for the latest edition of Expos Fest on Saturday.
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Teeple: The lost art of the situational player
Former professional pitcher and founder of The GM’s Perspective blog, Devon Teeple, laments the loss of the situational player in baseball.
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Glew: 48 years ago, Jenkins threw the first shutout against the Blue Jays
It seems fitting that Fergie Jenkins, the greatest Canadian pitcher, was the first to toss a shutout against the Toronto Blue Jays in a regular season game. He did it 48 years ago today.
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BWDIK: Brash, Delgado, Hicks, Jenkins, Naylor, Pivetta, Pop
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Liam Hicks, Josh Naylor, Nick Pivetta, Matt Brash, Fergie Jenkins and Carlos Delgado.
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Mark Whicker: It's early, but Padres’ Tatis, yesterday's footnote, in trophy contention
“Among the trophies Fernando Tatis Jr. was supposed to be cramming into his attic by now was not the one for Comeback of the Year.
Not long ago he was hitting baseballs out of sight, 42 of them in 2021. Then he disappeared, too. It doesn’t take long for today’s sensation to become tomorrow’s footnote. Tatis didn’t play in 2022, missed 21 games the next year and 60 games last year, thanks to a shoulder problem. Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge took over baseball’s marquee.
They are still there, but Tatis is again sending out drives that might knock their letters off, or maybe into a lower row.”
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Glew: Remembering Jackie Robinson's season in Montreal
On Jackie Robinson Day, we remember the courageous trailblazer that Jackie Robinson was and how his season with the Montreal Royals in 1946 before he broke Major League Baseball’s colour barrier was so important to him.
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Gallagher: Spinal-cord operation a setback for Cromartie
“Warren Cromartie is facing one of the greatest battles of his life.
The former Expos player and a great promoter of baseball's possible return to Montreal is in a wheelchair and partially paralyzed in the legs following spinal-cord surgery done in 2023, a procedure he kept private for a long time until just recently.”
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Meidroth becomes eighth former HarbourCat to play in big leagues
The Victoria HarbourCats are proud to announce that the Chicago White Sox have recalled infielder Chase Meidroth. He is the eighth former HarbourCat to play in the majors.
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BWDIK: Brash, Hicks, Pasquantino, Pivetta, Romano, Smith
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Matt Brash, Nick Pivetta, Jordan Romano, Liam Hicks, Cade Smith, Pete Rose and Vinnie Pasquantino.
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Glew: 15 largest contracts signed by MLB players born in Canada
Montreal-born Vladimir Guerrero’s 14-year, $500-million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays will be the richest contract ever signed by a player born in Canada. CBN editor Kevin Glew has compiled a list of the top 15 MLB contracts ever signed by players born in Canada.
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BWDIK: Hicks, Johnson, Morris, Pivetta, Pop, Quantrill, Raines, Soroka
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Liam Hicks, Cal Quantrill, Nick Pivetta, Michael Soroka, Jack Morris and Tim Raines.
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Dodgers place Freeman on IL with ankle sprain
The Los Angeles Dodgers have placed former Canadian national team member Freddie Freeman on the injured list with a right ankle sprain.
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Wilson: 10 times MLB teams visited Alberta
Imagine some of the biggest stars of the game coming to Alberta to play exhibition games. Instead of Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Paul Skenes and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., it was Reggie Jackson, Joe Carter, Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey, Jr. who suited up at Alberta’s biggest fields. Take a trip down memory lane with Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, as he shines the spotlight on 10 times big league clubs visited Alberta.
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BWDIK: Black, Dickson, Fowler, Hicks, Lopez, Quantrill, Toro
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Liam Hicks, Otto Lopez, Tyler O’Neill, Michael Soroka, Jason Dickson and Dick Fowler.
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Black out six-to-eight weeks with hamate fracture
Milwaukee Brewers’ prized prospect Tyler Black (Stouffville, Ont.) will be sidelined for six-to-eight weeks with a hamate fracture in his right hand.
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