Adam Macko is a major leaguer.
From first discovering baseball in the first grade at school in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia; to winning a Little League championship in Ireland; to teaching himself how to pitch by watching YouTube videos of David Price and Justin Verlander; to training in Vauxhall in southern Alberta, Macko has now realized his dream of playing Major League Baseball (MLB).
Read More Macko in the MajorsCanada’s performance at the World Baseball Classic wasn’t just historic.
Our Joe McFarland believes it’s a sign of things to come as this country has a loaded pipeline of young talent ready to take the world by storm.
Read More OPINION: Oh Canada, Indeed!They answered the call for Canada.
And, while they may not have delivered a victory, they rose to the occasion in impressive fashion.
In one of the biggest baseball games in Canada’s history, it was Alberta pitchers who took the mound and gave the Americans all they could handle.
Read More Alberta Pitchers Shine on Biggest StageHe’s waited longer than he had hoped to represent Canada.
And when he finally gets the opportunity to do it at the World Baseball Classic, Adam Macko plans to soak it all in.
Read More Fulfilling a DreamAlberta arms will figure prominently on Team Canada’s pitching staff at the World Baseball Classic.
With a quarter of the 16 pitchers named to the Canadian roster hailing from the province, they’ll play a key role in the success of the squad when the tournament gets underway in March.
Here is a closer look at the pitchers from Wild Rose Country …
Read More Canada Leans on Alberta Arms at WBCThe youth movement has arrived for Canada and it looks like it will be on full display at the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
With the World Series now complete, many baseball insiders have now turned their attention to the next installment of what turned out to be a major coup for the sport in 2023.
We take a look at 10 players from Alberta and Saskatchewan who could hear their names get called ahead of the tournament.
Read More OPINION: 10 Familiar Faces for CanadaA promotion to the big leagues is so close, Adam Macko can almost touch it.
And if everything goes according to plan, the young left-hander would like to do it sometime in 2025.
The highly touted Toronto Blue Jays prospect is coming off a year which saw him play at three different levels, with his final start coming with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons.
Read More Engaged in the ProcessIt’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.
Read More Flying Together AgainVauxhall Academy grad Adam Macko is part of a major trade between the Jays and the Mariners.
Meanwhile, former Okotoks Dawgs outfielder Tristan Peters was also dealt …
Read More Macko on the MoveThe 2022 baseball season is officially underway.
Scouring the rosters of all Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams, there is certainly no shortage of connections to Alberta on the field.
We’ve compiled a list of players who were born here, trained here or played here with the Western Canadian Baseball League.
Read More Alberta’s 2022 Pro Connections