Baseball Canada | Canadians listed on Baseball America Top 30 Prospects lists

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March 09, 2022

Canadians listed on Baseball America Top 30 Prospects lists

OTTAWA – Minor leaguers across baseball are currently in spring training at sites across Arizona and Florida including Canadian pros looking to show off their skills attempting to climb the professional baseball ladder towards the big leagues.

Baseball America has updated their list of the Top 30 Prospects among each of the 30 Major League Baseball clubs with 14 Canadians making appearances.

Included in the 14 Canadians are eight graduates of the Junior National Team program while Blue Jays’ top ten prospect Otto Lopez represented Canada in 2019 at the COPABE Pan Am Games Qualifier in Brazil.

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Canadians on Top 30 Prospects lists

Atlanta

21 - RHP Indigo Diaz (North Vancouver, BC)

New York (N)

*10 - RHP Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, ON)

Chicago (N)

*8 - OF Owen Caissie (Burlington, ON)
23 - OF Jordan Nwogu (Ottawa, ON)

Milwaukee

5 - INF Tyler Black (Toronto, ON)

Baltimore

*27 - INF Adam Hall (London, ON)

Cleveland

*7 - C Bo Naylor (Mississauga, ON)

Minnesota

*3 -RHP Jordan Balazovic (Mississauga, ON)
*26 - UT Edouard Julien (Québec, QC)

Oakland

*13 - OF Denzel Clarke (Pickering, ON)

Seattle

4 - RHP Matt Brash (Kingston, ON)
9 - LHP Adam Macko (Stony Plain, AB)

Texas

*20 - LHP Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, ON)

Toronto

6 - INF Otto Lopez (Montréal, QC)

*Junior National Team graduate

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