2025 WCBL Award Winners Announced

The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) has determined its most outstanding performers for the 2025 season.

The summer collegiate circuit that calls Alberta and Saskatchewan home has unveiled All-Star Teams, Most Valuable Players, the Rookie of the Year, the Most Outstanding Canadian, the Most Outstanding Pitcher, the Top Relief Pitcher, the Coach of the Year and the Mitch Ball Memorial Award winner.

Here is a rundown of the major award recipients of this year …

OPINION: The Road to Okotoks

The road to Canadian baseball academy supremacy will go through Okotoks.

The idea of an academy national championship has been tossed around for years as programs want to show how they stack up against each from coast to coast to coast.

Joe McFarland takes a look at what has him excited for a national showcase in our own backyard.

Dawgs Hosting Canadian Academy Championship

The road to Canadian baseball academy supremacy will run through Okotoks.

Baseball Canada and Dawgs Academy have announced the launch of “The Road to Okotoks” national championship, which will see 16 elite academy teams compete for the Morneau Cup.

Rogers on the Rise

At 6-foot-8, AJ Rogers (Cole Harbour, N.S.) towers over almost everyone else at the 2025 Canadian Futures Showcase.

The young right-hander is imposing on the mound, but in recent years, he realized that he was a little too lanky and needed to add bulk to match his height.

1 Thru 9: Ethan Renaud

He’s not old enough to drive and yet Ethan Renaud already has baseball people across Canada talking.

The Dawgs Academy utility player will be one of the youngest players set to take part in the 2025 Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase.

Year of the Dawgs

They are onto the scent of being the top high school program in North America.

After capturing an incredible record of 60 wins, five losses and one tie during the season, the Dawgs Academy 18U Black team in Okotoks has risen to new heights in the eyes of Perfect Game.

The U.S.-based organization has touted the Dawgs as the number two high school program on the continent in its annual end-of-season rankings.

Dream Come True

He’s been one of Canada’s highest-ranked prospects for a couple of years now.

Dawgs Academy product Tim Piasentin (Coquitlam, B.C.) is now joining “Canada’s Team” as the Toronto Blue Jays selected him in the fifth round of the 2025 MLB Draft.

OPINION: Five Burning Questions for the WCBL

There’s no rest for the Western Canadian Baseball League’s wicked.

With the 2025 season now wrapped up, Joe McFarland takes a look at a few burning questions the summer circuit has heading into what promises to be a busy offseason.

Five Key WCBL Playoff Moments

It was a chaotic postseason in the Western Canadian Baseball League, with the slimmest of margins between the winners and the losers.

Every wild pitch seemed like a run waiting to happen and each fielding error felt like it might prove fatal to a team’s playoff chances.

Here’s a look at five pivotal moments that defined the 2025 WCBL postseason …

New Pecking Order

They just kept pecking away.

After three years of heartbreak in losing to the Okotoks Dawgs in the Western Canadian Baseball League West Division Final, the Sylvan Lake Gulls emerged victorious in convincing fashion in 2025.