Baseball Canada is excited to announce the addition of the Bob Elliott Media Recognition Award to our group of national awards recognizing individuals who have made a positive impact to Baseball Canada and its member provinces at a national, provincial or local level.
To be eligible for this award, the coach must have made a positive, long-time contribution to coaching baseball in Canada at the local, Provincial, National and/or International level, be in good standing with with the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) and have demonstrated outstanding leadership, performance and guidance as a baseball coach throughout their coaching career.
OTTAWA – London, Ontario’s Jamie Romak is the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2020 Tip O’Neill Award, handed out annually to the Canadian player judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball’s highest ideals.
OTTAWA – Three-time National Team member Brock Dykxhoorn was given the “Outstanding Player Award” after leading the Uni-President 7-ELEVEn Lions to a seven-game series win over the CTBC Brothers in the Taiwan Series, the top prize Chinese Professional Baseball (CPBL).
OTTAWA – Canadian Tyler O’Neill has won his first Rawlings Gold Glove Award after the 25-year-old outfielder posted a fine defensive season for the St. Louis Cardinals.
OTTAWA – Fall instructional league camps are underway for 28 of Major League Baseball’s 30 clubs including several Canadian players looking to get valuable reps in after the 2020 minor league season was cancelled earlier this year due to Covid-19.
Junior National Team pitchers Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, ON) and Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, ON) will be at Dr. Pepper Stadium in Frisco, Texas on Sunday, October 4th to play in the Baseball Factory All-Star Classic, featuring 40 of the top high school baseball players in North America.
Although his Cleveland Indians squad was eliminated from Major League Baseball’s Wild Card Series last night by the New York Yankees, Mississauga’s Josh Naylor had a pair of games to remember and became a social media sensation with his play.
Major League Baseball’s 2020 Postseason gets underway this afternoon under an expanded 16-team format that includes Canada’s only MLB club, the Toronto Blue Jays, opening their best-of-three Wild Card Series as the eighth seed against top seeded Tampa Bay.
The Major League Baseball trade deadline passed on August 31st with three Canadian big leaguers switching organizations including Josh Naylor and Cal Quantrill moving from the San Diego Padres to the Cleveland Indians in a 9-player blockbuster.