What a year it was for St. Albert’s Logan Colville.
He was named the Edmonton Collegiate Hawks Pitcher of the Year, then was an All-West Coast League Second Team selection after a stellar summer with the Edmonton Riverhawks.
Read More Swooping InThe smell of fresh-cut grass, the sound of baseballs slapping into gloves or meeting bats, the sights of fans cheering.
Every time Scott Gillespie stepped foot into a different Canadian Baseball League stadium in 2026, he was soaking the entire experience in.
After a solid college career and five years in the independent professional circuit formerly known as the Intercounty Baseball League, the Sherwood Park native knew it was time to move on.
Read More Beam Him UpIt might have been a banner year for Alberta’s baseball teams at Baseball Canada national championships.
The province’s teams came back home with two silver and two bronze medals draped around their necks.
Read More 2026 in Review: Baseball Alberta at NationalsThere’s a growth spurt and then there’s Lucas Carroll.
Standing next to the 6-foot-1, 201-pound backstop at his first Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase, you’d never imagine that just a couple of years ago, he was a 5-foot-8, 150-pound prospect trying to make it with Webber Academy.
Yet here he was, suiting up with Team Red and facing some of the most talented high school players in Canada.
Read More Got Milk?He was on the brink of being an afterthought during the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft.
Eric Hartman has made the Atlanta Braves look really good by taking a chance on him with their 20th round selection.
And now he’s the Minor League Baseball Breakout Player of the Year.
Read More The Breakout BraveThe target is squarely on the back of Daril Rodriguez and he’s more than okay with it.
The Red Deer native became the third-straight player with Alberta ties to claim the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase Home Run Derby in 2025, belting 17 roundtrippers during two rounds to take the crown.
Read More Daril’s Derby DesiresHe is one of the smallest players at the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase but he’s determined to show he has the biggest heart.
Red Deer’s Brooks Froese stands 5-foot-11 and weighs in at 152 pounds, which is just two pounds heavier than the lightest player at the showcase.
Read More Showcasing with … Brooks FroeseHe’s built a lot of what you see in Alberta’s baseball scene today.
From Prairie Baseball Academy and Vauxhall Academy to the Okotoks Dawgs and Badlands Academy in Oyen, Blair Kubicek’s fingerprints are all over it.
He’s been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s Coach of the Year.
Read More ‘Coach Kubi’ Recognized by CBNIn honour of National Coaches Week, our Joe McFarland takes a look back at his summer spent coaching t-ball and coach-pitch.
Read More OPINION: Thanks Coach!Discipline, teamwork, perseverance and loving to be in the competitive moment.
They are the big reasons that Nathan Bailey fell in love with the game of baseball and the ones that continue to drive him as he takes his game to the next level.
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