Tag: Jordan Blundell

Sliding Into Home

It was a special kind of homecoming for three members of the Energy City Cactus Rats.

Displaced by delays in building their new home in Spruce Grove, Nick Hagen, Ryan Kwasnycia and Easton Kitura enjoyed a weekend at Henry Singer Park.

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The Wheels on the Bus

It was a long, long road for the Energy City Cactus Rats to get back to their new hometown.

The team has once again been the ultimate road warriors and are in the thick of the WCBL West Division playoff hunt.

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Capital Gains

“It’s a relief for sure.”

The Edmonton Prospects headed into the off-season with a cloud of uncertainty surrounding its future at RE/MAX Field.

But a deal for 2020 has been signed and now, head coach and assistant general manager Jordan Blundell says they can now focus on the “fun stuff” heading into the summer.

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Edmonton Prospects Season Preview

It’s hard to tell if the Edmonton Prospects have been regular-season underachievers or playoff overachievers the last few years.

The Prospects were a .500 team in the regular season from 2016 to 2018, and they appeared in the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) finals in back-to-back years in that time. Last summer they upset the Okotoks Dawgs before the Medicine Hat Mavericks ended their playoff run.

They seem to get hot at a good time of year, but their inconsistent campaigns leave fans wanting more.

Which version of the Prospects will show up in 2019? Can a new coaching staff bring regular-season success to the club? These are just a couple of questions facing the team heading into the season.

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1 Thru 9: Prospects Baseball Academy

After a decade of operation, Prospects Baseball Academy in St. Albert has cultivated some incredible talent.

Those who have attended the academy include Major League Baseball (MLB) draft picks – like Toronto Blue Jays pitching prospect Andrew Case and Erik Sabrowski, a 2018 selection of the San Diego Padres – while others have represented the Prospects in Edmonton as members of the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) team. 

Other students – such as Jackson Wark, Kobe Hyland and Taran Oulton – have gone on to play high-end college baseball in the United States and across Canada. 

Jordan Blundell, meanwhile, has become the face for the Prospects in both St. Albert and Edmonton. In St. Albert, Blundell works as a hitting instructor and recruiting coordinator at Prospects Baseball Academy, while in Edmonton he was recently named head coach and director of baseball operations by the Prospects.

We caught up with Blundell recently to learn more about the academy.

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