(Photo: Stanford Athletics)
OTTAWA – Junior National Team alumnus (2011-2013) Cal Quantrill, a junior with the Stanford Cardinal, is one of 50 players on the Golden Spikes Award watch list that was released by USA Baseball yesterday. The award honors the top amateur player in the United States.
Quantrill (Port Hope, ON) was named to the list for the second consecutive season and despite missing most of the 2015 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. After winning Pac 12 Freshman of the year in 2014 while going 7-5 with a 2.68 ERA over 17 starts and one relief appearance, Quantrill started three games for the Cardinal in 2015 and went 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA before being shutdown for the remainder of the season.
Quantrill will not start the season with the Cardinal when the NCAA schedule begins on February 19th as he is still recovering from surgery. However, this has not stopped him from picking up some preseason accolades as both Baseball America and Louisville Slugger have named him to their Preseason All-America teams.
Quantrill joined the Junior National Team program in 2011 as a 16 year-old and helped Canada to a silver medal performance at the COPABE 18U Pan American Championship in Cartagena, Colombia. In 2012, he was a member of the Canadian team that picked up a silver medal at the IBAF 18U Baseball World Cup in Seoul, Korea before he ended his Junior National Team career in 2013 after playing for Canada at the 18U Baseball World Cup in Taichung, Taiwan.
Quantrill was a 26th round pick of the New York Yankees in the 2013 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. He is eligible for the 2016 draft.
To see the Golden Spikes watch list, please click here.
