OTTAWA- Former National Team Coach and longtime Canadian baseball scout Wayne Norton will be formally inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame tomorrow, on the grounds of the hall in St. Marys, Ontario.
OTTAWA- The Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft resumed today with rounds three through ten that saw seven Canadians taken. After Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, ON) and Andrew Yerzy (Toronto, ON) were selected on day one, a total of nine Canadians have now been drafted with rounds 11-40 slated for the third and final day tomorrow (Noon ET).
OTTAWA- Junior National Team catcher Andy Yerzy (Toronto, ON) was selected 52nd overall in the second round of the 2016 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night. He becomes the first current member of the Junior National Team program to be selected in the 2016 draft.
OTTAWA- The San Diego Padres used the 8th overall selection in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft this evening to select Port Hope, Ontario native Cal Quantrill out of Stanford University.
WHAT: The annual Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft (or Rule 4 Draft) gets underway tonight with the first 77 selections (Round 1, Competitive Balance Lottery Round A, Round 2, Completive Balance Lottery Round B), continues Friday with rounds three through ten and concludes on Saturday with rounds 11-40.
OTTAWA-There will never be another like him.
OTTAWA – It may not feel like spring in parts of Canada, but across locations in Florida and Arizona spring training is underway for all thirty Major League Baseball clubs that includes 15 Canadians among those in big league camp.
Photo: Wayne Norton (left) with Baseball Hall of Fame member Hank Aaron in 1983.
OTTAWA- Not that long ago, Canadians were represented on baseball prospect lists by the likes of Michael Saunders, James Paxton, Brett Lawrie and more recently, Dalton Pompey. With all of the aforementioned having reached the big leagues, a new wave of Canadian prospects are emerging led by a trio of Junior National Team grads.
OTTAWA- For the fifth time in six years, the Junior National Team will face a split squad version of the Toronto Blue Jays during Spring Training.
