OTTAWA, ON (April 18th, 2019) – Baseball Canada and BIGS Seeds are extremely pleased to announce a brand new partnership that will see the food brand become the Official Sunflower Seed of Baseball Canada along with the naming rights sponsor for the Baseball Canada Cup and Men’s National Championships in 2019.
OTTAWA- Canada’s path to qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic baseball competition will officially begin on November 6thof this year against No. 5 Cuba as the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today unveiled the game schedule for Group C of the 2019 WBSC Premier12®, the year's biggest international baseball event.
OTTAWA- Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the names of 28 athletes that have been invited to the Junior National Team’s (U-18) annual Extended Spring Training Camp in West Palm Beach, Florida from April 18-27.
OTTAWA – Major League Baseball recently announced participants for the third annual Trailblazer Series and among the group named are six Canadian athletes who will attend the event in Compton, California from April 11 – 13.
OTTAWA- Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the following individuals who have been selected as officials by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) for various Baseball World Cup events in 2019:
OTTAWA- Canadians Russell Martin, Tyler O’Neill, James Paxton, Nick Pivetta, Dalton Pompey and Joey Votto make-up the six Canadians on Major League Baseball (MLB) Opening Day rosters with the 2019 season set to begin today.
DUNEDIN, FL--- Dasan Brown (Oakville, ON) drilled a home run in the sixth inning, TJ Schofield-Sam (Brampton, ON) drove in two runs in the third inning to highlight the Junior National Team’s annual trip to Dunedin to face Canada’s only big league baseball team, the Toronto Blue Jays.
SAINT PETERSBURG, FL--- Junior National Team alumnus Mitchell Robinson (Surrey, BC) hit one of six New York Yankees home runs on afternoon as his squad went on to defeat the Junior National Team, 15-5.
SAINT PETERSBURG, FL--- The Tampa Bay Rays sent some of their top prospects to play the Junior National Team today in St. Pete and they proved their worth coming away with a 10-1 win at the Walter Fuller Complex, the former spring training home of the big league organization.
SAINT PETERSBURG, FL--- A Philadelphia Phillies prospects squad featuring Canadian baseball legends Ernie Whitt and Rob Ducey on the coaching staff paid a visit to the Walter Fuller Complex to take on the Junior National Team and came away with a 6-0 win.