The Rhoades Show

Despite a valiant effort from Ian Heck of the Weyburn Beavers in the final, Fort McMurray Giants star Matt Rhoades captures Saturday’s Western Canadian Baseball League Home Run Derby champion.

Baseball Bashers Ready for Derby

The field has been set for the Western Canadian Baseball League’s 2025 Home Run Derby.

The event – part of the All-Star Game festivities taking place on Saturday, July 19th at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks – gets underway at 5 p.m. and it will feature a dozen long-ball launchers, one from each WCBL team.

Here’s a closer look at the 12 participants …

Swift Return

From being a Western Canadian Baseball League All-Star to teaching younger players his ways.

Left-handed pitching legend, Kenny Jinks, made his return to the Swift Current 57s once again for the 2025 summer season, but this time as a coach.

WCBL Players to Watch

They are the unleashers of long balls, the ground ball vacuums, the base burglars and the strikeout artists that fans get excited to see every summer.

With the 2025 Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) season upon us, it’s time to take a closer look at some of the returning veteran players who have brought us to our feet in previous years.

7th Inning Stretch: Adam Korte

It might be a four-hour drive from Muenster to Swift Current, but Adam Korte’s family and friends are more than happy to make that trek when they know he’s starting.

And it might happen a little more this summer as the right-hander enters his second season with the 57’s.

2025 WCBL Season Preview

Baseball heroics are on deck.

The last time we saw the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) in action, Connor Crowson was stumbling around the bases of Seaman Stadium and arriving at home plate to a championship celebration in front of 6,341 screaming fans.

It was Crowson’s solo home run in the bottom of the ninth that served as a walk-off tiebreaker against the Moose Jaw Miller Express and delivered a three-peat title to the Okotoks Dawgs. The hometown hero made the final play of the WCBL postseason a decisive and memorable one in the 6-5 triumph.

Who will play the role of hero in 2025?

Swift Current 57’s 2025 Preview

The 57’s are hoping for a swift turnaround.

After finishing last in the East Division of the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) and outside of the playoff picture in 2024, the Swift Current 57’s will look to make it to the postseason, as they did in 2023.

That will be the first step in trying to find the championship form that delivered the franchise seven titles since 2000.

1 Thru 9: Kyrell Adair

Growing up in Swift Current, Kyrell Adair dreamed of one day suiting up for the hometown 57s.

The 6-foot-1, 166-pound utilityman got his chance on July 31, getting the call from the bullpen in the third inning of a game against the Medicine Hat Mavericks.

Since then, he’s repped Baseball Sask and committed to Trinidad State College.

I Heart Baseball

What do people love about baseball?

The answers are here …

Five Storylines We’re Watching in 2025

What a year it was for baseball in Saskatchewan.

From the grassroots growth that continues in almost every community to successes in high school and college programs to outstanding performances at national events, it was a year to remember.

We now look ahead to 2025 and some of the major storylines we’ll be keeping an eye on.