Alberta Links to Canada’s Top Baseball Influencers

A look at Alberta’s connections to Bob Elliott’s list of top baseball influencers …

Flying Together Again

It’s impossible to blame Adam Macko for his reaction to getting a random early morning call from a number he didn’t recognize.

Like many others, he just let it ring.

However, the Vauxhall Academy of Baseball product later found out it was a call to inform him he had been traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, and would be reunited with his old Vauxhall teammate, Damiano Palmegiani.

Peters Invited to Rays’ MLB Camp

It’s been a whirlwind few months for Tristan Peters.

The Dawgs Academy and Okotoks Dawgs product was traded from Milwaukee to San Francisco, then again to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Peters is being rewarded for his performances in pro ball so far by being invited to the Rays’ MLB camp this spring.

Cannon Fodder

Wait and see.

That will be the most likely outcome for a pair of former Calgary Cannons who are hoping to gain acceptance into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York …

Reds Rover

Matt Lloyd vividly remembers how his 2022 baseball season came to an unexpected end.

The Calgary native was patrolling first base for the Chattanooga Lookouts in a May 3 game against Rocket City, when a hard-hit ball was relayed back to him.

Trying to simultaneously catch the ball and dive and tag the runner, he felt a pop, that led to a surgery and lengthy rehabilitation.