OPINION: Oh Canada, Indeed!

Canada’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.

Alberta Pitchers Shine on Biggest Stage

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.

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Fulfilling a Dream

He’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.

Canada Leans on Alberta Arms at WBC

Alberta 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 …

OPINION: 10 Familiar Faces for Canada

The 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.

Engaged in the Process

A 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.

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.

Macko on the Move

Vauxhall 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 …

Alberta’s 2022 Pro Connections

The 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.

The Cardinal’s In

The baseball journey for Maddux Mateychuk has been a windy road thus far.

From his home in Dominion City, Manitoba to plying his trade with Vauxhall Academy of Baseball to signing his Letter of Intent with Mineral Area College in Missouri, the 17-year-old has one goal in mind: making it to the big leagues.

We chatted with the 6-foot-3, 215-pound right-hander for a recent episode of Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast and here is the full Q&A.