The Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame will announce their Tip O'Neill Award winner, for the top Canadian player in 2023, on December 7. Here’s a rundown of the top candidates.
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher believes that legendary Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston is worthy of a plaque in Cooperstown.
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DeMarlo Hale will rejoin the Toronto Blue Jays to be their associate manager.
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Bob Elliott pays tribute to longtime Toronto Blue Jays scout Dave Yoakum who passed away on May 10 at the age of 76.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have hired Carlos Febles to be their new third base coach.
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Three Toronto Blue Jays players were named American League Gold Glove Award winners on Sunday.
Pitcher Jose Berrios, third baseman Matt Chapman and centre fielder Kevin Kiermaier were announced as winners.
It’s the first time in Blue Jays’ history the team has had three Gold Glove Award winners in the same season.
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Who was the Toronto Blue Jays best postseason pitcher?
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew provides an answer to this question.
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The Toronto Blue Jays have unveiled their 2024 regular season schedule.
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Former Toronto Blue Jays reliever Mike Timlin still has the last out ball from the 1992 World Series that his Blue Jays won 31 years ago today. It is one of the most sought-after items in Canadian baseball history and would likely fetch five or maybe six digits at auction.
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Thirty years ago today, Toronto Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter belted the second walk-off, World Series-winning home run in major league history. It’s an unforgettable moment in Canadian baseball history - one that wouldn’t have happened, as Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott recounts in this 2015 article, if Carter had signed with the Kansas City Royals, as the outfielder almost did at the 1992 winter meetings.
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Former Toronto Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston is one of the former managers, executives or umpires on the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot that was announced on Thursday.
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Toronto Blue Jays’ prized pitching prospect Ricky Tiedemann has been named Arizona Fall League Pitcher of the Week.
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Rance Mulliniks always looked like the smartest player on the field.
And many of his former Toronto Blue Jays teammates will tell you that he was.
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew recently caught up with Mulliniks to talk about the former third baseman’s baseball career.
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Former Toronto Blue Jays All-Star left-hander Ricky Romero is headed back to school to complete a Sociology degree at Cal State Fullerton. The now 38-year-old, who threw his last MLB pitch 10 years ago, is doing it largely to serve as an example for his three children. Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge recently spoke with Romero.
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Toronto Blue Jays legendary right-hander Dave Stieb has been elected to the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew can confirm that Toronto Blue Jays legendary catcher Ernie Whitt is still “a big deal in Canada.” He recently caught up with the current Baseball Canada national team manager and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
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“Only one man in Ontario really qualifies as a true friend of Josh Donaldson’s.
And that’s Tyler Johnstone.
The two played in the same Auburn Tigers infield in 2005 and 2006.
Johnstone grew up playing for the Erin Mills A’s in Mississauga, then the Ontario Blue Jays, Connors State College, Purdue University before transferring to Auburn where the friendship blossomed.
Despite all the bus trips, good times and bad times they experienced together, friendship has its limits. Donaldson basically banned Johnstone from Rogers Centre for Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers. “
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays reliever Jay Jackson and his fiancée Sam Bautista have been celebrating milestones of their strong, newborn son, JR, who was born at under 25 weeks and remains in a Salt Lake City hospital. Canadian Baseball Network writer Melissa Verge recently spoke to Jackson about his son.
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Like his father, Greg, before him, Connor O’Halloran (Mississauga, Ont.) was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. The young left-hander has since been assigned to the Blue Jays’ Low-A affiliate in Dunedin. Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts recently caught up with him.
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“Thirty teams passed on Bryce Arnold during June’s MLB draft, before the Toronto Blue Jays signed the middle infielder from Grimsby, Ont., to a free agent contract and sent him to Low-A Dunedin.
Jimmy Richardson, VP and director of baseball operations with Arnold’s alma mater, the Fieldhouse Pirates, has every confidence Arnold will rise far above Dunedin before his playing days are done.
“After Bryce signed, I said, ‘That guy’s going to be a big leaguer,’” Richardson told Canadian Baseball Network.”
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