Okotoks Dawgs alum Tristan Peters (Winkler, Man.) has received an invite to the Tampa Bay Rays’ big league spring training.
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ABC alum Abraham Toro (Longueuil, Que.) has signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox.
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“Baseball has an influencer that needs to be suspended, for the good of the game and all who pitch. His name is Max Effort.
He sidles up to young pitchers in the midst of a bullpen session and whispers, “You need to throw harder.” He sets up computers and tracking devices and tells pitchers to concentrate on those, rather than hitters. He tries to convince them that the infielders and outfielders behind them are just there for decorative purposes, and that the pitcher’s purpose, beyond all else, is the strikeout. He is an evangelist for the Three True Outcomes — strikeout, walk, home run — when the Real Outcome he pushes is surgery. “
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Nick Pivetta, Cal Quantrill, Owen Caissie, Corey Koskie, Russell Martin, Wayne Gretzky and Tom Henke.
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Corey Koskie (Anola, Man.) has been elected to the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew is attempting to document all of the transactions involving Canadians in the professional ranks this off-season.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have signed C Christian Bethancourt and LHP Richard Lovelady to minor league contracts and have invited them to MLB spring training.
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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Longtime big league catcher Russell Martin (Montreal, Que.) received nine votes from baseball writers in this year’s National Baseball Hall of Fame voting. This made him the eighth player born in Canada to receive Hall votes. Canadian Baseball Network contributor Neil Munro has a summary.
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Bob Elliott shares memories of Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker who passed away on Thursday at the age of 90.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher reports that former Montreal Expos pitching coach Bobby Cuellar died on Monday at the age of 72.
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Former Montreal Expos manager Jeff Torborg passed away on Sunday at the age of 83. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher remembers the ex-big league catcher and longtime skipper.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Bob Uecker, Justin Morneau, Michael Saunders, Rowan Wick and Alison Gordon.
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Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, shares the story of when Bob Uecker came to Lethbridge, Alta., as a guest speaker at the local Kinsmen Club’s annual Sportsman’s Dinner in 1972.
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Justin Morneau (New Westminster, B.C.) will return to the Twins’ broadcast booth for an eighth season.
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Billy Wagner emerged from the tiny town of Tannersville, Va., to become one of the most dominant closers in big league history. He’ll likely be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, writes Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker.
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“Stubby Clapp didn’t do a back flip on stage at the Baseball Canada National Teams Awards Banquet & Fundraiser on Saturday night.
But you get the feeling that if the 51-year-old baseball legend could still do one, he would have.
That’s the kind of joy and pride Clapp felt being at being inducted onto Baseball Canada’s Canada Wall of Excellence.”
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“Years ago while quenching his thirst at some forgotten oasis in Cleveland, Ohio, Paul Hoynes, veteran “beat writer” for that city's Guardians major-league baseball team, noticed an intriguing photograph on the wall.
The image depicted eight tuxedo-clad men who sat at the head table of the “1928 Champions of Sport Banquet” in New York City. Hoynes's chest swelled with pride when he spotted a familiar face among such luminaries as baseball's Babe Ruth, heavyweight champ Gene Tunney, tennis titan Bill Tilden, Olympic champion swimmer (and later Hollywood's original Tarzan) Johnny Weismuller, and others from the so-called "Golden Age of Sports." Bookending the top row with the Sultan of Swat and standing just behind the golfer Bobby Jones is New York Rangers great Bill Cook, the National Hockey League team's first captain who that year spearheaded the upstart “Broadway Blueshirts” to the Stanley Cup in just their second year in operation.
Picking out Cook from the octet of sports heroes, Hoynes grinned and thought: “Well, look at that, it's Daddy Bill.”
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Canadian slugger Josh Naylor signed a one-year, $10.9-million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday to avoid arbitration.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Owen Caissie, Cade Smith, Cal Quantrill, Jeff Fassero, Doug Hudlin and Bob Oldis.
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