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, Andrelton Simmons made his way to the town of 15,000 people in Saskatchewan to suit up for the Yorkton Cardinals at Jubilee Park.
Read More Short Stop in SaskatchewanThere’s no rest for the Western Canadian Baseball League’s wicked.
Even though the summer circuit’s season just wrapped up, plans are already underway for next year with a few major storylines coming down the pipe.
Read More OPINION: Five Burning Questions for the WCBLIt 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.
Read More Five Key WCBL Playoff MomentsWhen he wasn’t getting it done with his bat, catcher Brady Bye was getting it done on the field with the Regina Red Sox pitching staff.
The home-grown talent, a student at Point University, was a consistent and steadying presence on the team heading into the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) postseason.
Read More Brady’s BunchThe resilient, road warrior Regina Red Sox are Western Canadian Baseball League champions.
The Red Sox, who entered every WCBL postseason round as underdogs, have won their third title in franchise history by defeating the Sylvan Lake Gulls in a tight back-and-forth final series.
Read More Road Warrior Red Sox Win TitleIf there was a participant ribbon for qualifying for the Western Canadian Baseball League postseason, the Regina Red Sox would have a drawer full of them.
Like Cal Ripken stationed on the left side of the infield with the Baltimore Orioles in the 1980s and 1990s, the Red Sox are just always there. They’re the Iron Horse of the East Division bracket.
Read More Red Sox Ready to Level UpThe Western Canadian Baseball League will crown a new champion.
For the first time since 2021, when the Lethbridge Bulls hoisted the Harry Hallis Memorial Trophy, a team other than the Okotoks Dawgs will claim the WCBL championship.
The Regina Red Sox will play the Sylvan Lake Gulls for bragging rights.
Read More WCBL Championship PreviewIt was an epic series final that had more storylines than an entire postseason crammed into one game.
The heavily favoured Saskatoon Berries edged the Moose Jaw Miller Express to advance to the WCBL East Division final and will face the Regina Red Sox.
Read More Sask’s Big Cities Clash in WCBL EastEli Hansen grew up around the Weyburn Beavers.
His grandfather, Garnet, is the team president, while his father, Tyrel, was a star pitcher with the Beavers during his college days.
As the youngest Hansen trotted out to leftfield for his first Western Canadian Baseball League start with the Beavers on Aug. 2 against the Medicine Hat, the enormity of the situation wasn’t lost on him.
Read More All in the FamilyIt’s go time.
The Western Canadian Baseball League’s 2025 regular season is complete and it’s time for postseason action.
Read More 2025 WCBL Playoff Preview
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