Angel Adjustments

Matt Coutney remembers the exact moment when he realized that professional baseball was going to be a grind.

32 games into what became 121 games played in the Los Angeles Angels’ farm system, the Wetaskiwin product says he wasn’t sure he’d be able to make it.

But he put up great numbers, earned a promotion, and now has his eyes on bigger things in 2024.

California Dreamin’

It was a dream ride for Medicine Hat trainer Mike Frostad in Atlanta.

But the Los Angeles Angels made him an offer he couldn’t refuse, and now he’s taking that dream to California.

Short Stop in Saskatchewan

You could call it glove at first sight.

Western Canadian baseball fans may not have realized it at the time, but they were watching the best defensive shortstop since Ozzie Smith take the field.

That summer of 2009, a scrawny 19-year-old kid from the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao made his way to the city of 15,000 people in Saskatchewan to suit up for the Yorkton Cardinals at Jubilee Park.

Majestic moonshots were not his calling card, and if you skipped batting practice you could still witness something special from Andrelton Simmons.