WCBL Names 2025 Award Winners

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.

OPINION: Unveiling Joe’s WCBL Awards Ballot

It was Levi Abbott’s world and we were just living in it.

In his final year of eligibility, the Lethbridge Bulls hurler laid it all out on the line in one of the best single-season pitching performances we have seen in the Western Canadian Baseball League.

Joe McFarland outlines how Abbott and others did on his ballot for WCBL awards and the annual season-ending all-star team.

Dreaming of Draft Day

There was a time when Addie Ziebart found herself wondering if she should quit baseball.

Now, she finds herself on the cusp of potentially being drafted into the new Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) in November.

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 shares some thoughts on how it’ll now be happening in Okotoks, Alberta.

Okotoks to Host 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.

Rauck is Rollin’

Like many Canadian kids who loved baseball, Mitchell Rauckman grew up as a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Even though he is primarily a pitcher himself, the Saskatoon native always enjoyed watching slugger Josh Donaldson.

He’s been to Rogers Centre to watch his favourite team play, and now he gets the opportunity to step on the turf at the Canadian Futures Showcase.

Remembering Jim Baba

He was a Canadian baseball giant.

Jim Baba had a profound impact on the game across Canada and around the globe, regarded as a well-respected and influential leader who served in a variety of roles including executive director of Baseball Canada from 2000 to 2021.

Baba recently passed away at the age of 69 following a long battle with blood cancer, resulting in a tidal wave of tributes from across the baseball world.

Celebrating the Sask Hall’s Class of 2025

They have been pioneers and trailblazers for baseball in communities across the province.

The Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated its 40th induction ceremony with the Class of 2025 in mid-August.

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, Andrelton Simmons made his way to the town of 15,000 people in Saskatchewan to suit up for the Yorkton Cardinals at Jubilee Park.

Saskatchewan Green and Bronze

Some were calling it the “Pool of Death.”

In a pool with B.C., Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, Team Saskatchewan persevered to capture bronze at the Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.