OTTAWA-The annual Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft begins tonight at 7pm ET with picks 1 through 74, continues Friday (1pm ET) for rounds three through ten and wraps-up on Saturday (1pm ET) with rounds 11 to 40.
OTTAWA-Gareth Morgan (Toronto, ON) became the first Canadian selected in the 2014 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft this evening when the Seattle Mariners took the Junior National Team outfielder in the Competitive Balance Round B, 74th overall.
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OTTAWA-Week 4 of voting in Baseball Canada’s 50 for 50 contest is complete and our fourth semi-finalist has been determined.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic-Josh Naylor (Mississauga, ON) quieted the hometown Dominican crowd with one crack of the bat tonight sending a 93 mile-per-hour fastball from top-prospect Huascar Ynoa over the wall in right-centre for a three-run home run to lead the Junior National Team to an 11-0 victory over the MLB Prospects. The game was awarded to the juniors after only four innings, due to heavy rain forcing the cancelation of the remainder of the game.
BOCA CHICA, Dominican Republic-The Seattle Mariners Dominican prospects limited the Junior National Team to only three hits and took advantage of five errors as they blanked the juniors 5-0 at their brand-new Dominican Academy.
BOCA CHICA, Dominican Republic-Starter Ben Onyshko (Winnipeg, MB) pitched seven strong innings and struck out nine leading the Junior National Team to a 7-2 victory over the New York Mets Dominican prospects.
Guerra, Dominican Republic- The Junior National Team scored five runs in the top of the seventh erasing a 3-0 deficit and Gareth Morgan (Toronto, ON) belted a two-run homer in the eighth to cap an 8-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers Dominican prospects.