The Los Angeles Dodgers weren’t counting on a lot from 37-year-old future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw this season. But with the team’s rotation decimated by injuries, the reinvented Kershaw has emerged as one of the club’s top starters, writes Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker.
Read MoreWith the 2025 MLB draft set to begin Sunday, Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew offers some fun facts and firsts about Canadians in previous drafts.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays outfielder/DH George Springer has been named the American League Player of the Week.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Nick Pivetta, Cade Smith, Josh Naylor, Matt Brash, Dave Stieb and Bernie Soulliere.
Read MoreFormer Milwaukee Brewers closer John Axford (Port Dover, Ont.) will be inducted on to the club’s Wall of Honor on August 23.
Read MoreHappy Canada Day to you!
Let’s celebrate with a hodge podge of Canada Day baseball facts that Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew has gathered over the years.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Nick Pivetta, Cade Smith, Matt Brash, Josh Naylor, Bill Atkinson, Dave Stieb and Otto Lopez.
Read MoreFormer big league slugger Dave Parker has died at the age of 74, less than a month before he was to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. He played his final 13 MLB games with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Read MoreThe Cleveland Guardians activated left-hander Erik Sabrowski from the 60-day injured list on Friday.
Read More“Chase Burns strikes out the first five major league batters he faces, one of which was Aaron Judge.
Nick Kurtz propels three game-winning home runs in a five-game span, all of them against topnotch relievers: Josh Hader, Bryan Abreu and Carlos Estevez.
Christian Moore makes his debut on June 14. Ten days later he ties the game with a ninth-inning home run. Two innings later he hits another home run that wins it.
Aside from having the world in their pockets, they share one thing. Last spring they were playing college baseball. They were taken in the first round of the 2024 draft: Burns second by Cincinnati, Kurtz fourth by Oakland, Moore eighth by the Angels. “
Read MoreToronto Mets and Junior National Team alum Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) has won MLB’s Electric Play of the Week for a record fourth consecutive week after he made another diving play for the Athletics on June 20.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Denzel Clarke, Josh Naylor, Matt Brash, Cade Smith and Todd Stottlemyre.
Read MoreSuperstar scribe Alexis Brudnicki, who is now a lawyer is Kansas City, makes her return to the Canadian Baseball Network with this feature article about Toronto Mets and Junior National Team alum Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) who has wowed almost everyone in Major League Baseball with his defense in centre field for the Athletics.
Read MoreBob Elliott pays tribute to former big league reliever, longtime Toronto Blue Jays doctor and his friend Ron Taylor.
Read MoreAfter an outstanding rookie season in 2024, right-hander Cade Smith (Abbotsford, B.C.) has been superb again out of the bullpen for the Cleveland Guardians in 2025, writes the Canadian Baseball Network’s Tyson Shushkewich.
Read MoreThe death of former big league centre fielder Chet Lemon hit Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew particularly hard.
Read More“The Boston sports fan in your life needs to know something.
Rafael Devers is not Mookie Betts, and the trade that sent Devers to San Francisco on Sunday is not the Titanic-caliber trade that sent Betts to the Dodgers.
Yes, the fear and loathing are real and understandable. Brad Marchand, supposedly a Bruin for life, got away to Florida and is not only on the bus that is tracking down a second straight Stanley Cup, but driving it. Aaron Nesmith, a drop-in for the Celtics whenever their key players needed a breather, is a priority scorer and defender for the Indiana Pacers as they battle Oklahoma City in the NBA Final”
Read MoreToronto Mets and Junior National Team alum Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.) has won the MLB’s Electric Play of the Week for the third consecutive week. He is the first player to win the award in three consecutive weeks.
Read MoreRon Taylor, a two-time World Series-winning pitcher from Toronto who later became the Blue Jays doctor, died on Monday at the age of 87 after a lengthy illness.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s weekly “But What Do I Know?” column discusses his father, Denzel Clarke, Abraham Toro, Josh Naylor, Matt Brash and Fergie Jenkins.
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