Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast

Welcome to the silly season for baseball in our neck of the woods. National championships are getting underway, The Road to Okotoks is nearing, and the Western Canadian Baseball League All-Star Game is set for next weekend. To get you all set up, we hear from Baseball Sask rising star Beth Sarauer (Clavet) about her excitement to play for three provincial teams, Kaleb Bozek (Castor) of Vauxhall Ac...

Plenty of news around the baseball world as we enter the month of July. Then we get to know a trio of guests with ATHX Academy product Caleb Mercer (Fort McMurray), Baseball Alberta rising star Avery Mullin (Leduc) and we catch up with Saskatoon Berries hurler Adam Korte (Muenster). 5:50 - Caleb Mercer 19:46 - Avery Mullin 33:54 - Adam Korte

We get you caught up on yet another busy week in the baseball news business before a trio of fantastic conversations. Baseball Alberta unveiled its 14U, 16U and 19U women's national events coming up later this summer and one familiar face is Airdrie's Natalie Kerr, who joins us to talk about her journey in the game. Then we head to the Western Canadian Baseball League to hear from one of the leadi...

It has been a crazy week with one major story dominating the headlines. We take a deep dive into all that has transpired as the Western Canadian Baseball League has granted approval to the Energy City Cactus Rats hosting home games for the rest of the season. We provide a lot of context and some lengthy clips from league president Kevin Kvame's news conference on Wednesday. After that, we hear fro...

More guests and more news! We have a jam-packed episode of the show as we get to know Dawgs Academy hurler AJ Rogers as he gets ready for a busy summer. He’s pitching in the MLB Draft League right now and is also getting ready for The Road to Okotoks. Then Ian Wilson kickstarts our season of “In The Dugout” with a quartet of guests: Thomas Soto and William Edwards of the Moose Jaw Miller Express a...

Slowly but surely we're getting ourselves back into a regular cadence. And that includes putting the wraps on another busy week of news in the baseball world. Then we dive into The Road to Okotoks and last weekend's Prairie Qualifiers, which were rained out on the final Sunday. In the end, Baseball Canada opted to allow all four semi-final teams to get to the main event in July. We get to know a p...

What a Friday it was in Carnduff as the Western Canadian Baseball League came to the community and put on a show for the second-annual Rural Roots Baseball Classic. A massive tip of the cap to everyone involved in organizing yet another memorable day in celebrating the past, present and future of baseball in Carnduff and southeastern Saskatchewan. Last year’s inaugural event in Oyen was fantastic...

We put the wraps on a very busy week for baseball across the prairies by taking a look at the female game with some pretty exciting news over the last couple of weeks. We have a quartet of guests joining us to get through it all, including a new league in Calgary , a new academy in Saskatoon , an update from the Women's National Team, and a long-time national team member who made a special appeara...

We’ve chatted with players and now it’s time to provide a little insight into how we see things shaping up around the Western Canadian Baseball League this summer. Joe and Ian are the special guests for the WCBL Report’s Season Preview Show, hosted by Clark Monroe. Thanks to the league and IKS Media for sharing the audio so that we can bring all our thoughts to you. Enjoy! Check out our one-stop-s...

Welcome to part two of our WCBL Season Preview Extravaganza! After spending the last episode in the East Division, it's time to take a look at the West Division with a guest from each of the six teams and their expectations heading into the summer. 1:19 - Sylvan Lake Gulls - Kai Rempel 7:22 - Okotoks Dawgs - Brody Forno 12:39 - Lethbridge Bulls - Cardel Dick 19:32 - Brooks Bombers - Deri Steiert-C...

The Western Canadian Baseball League season is upon us! As has become a new tradition here on the show, we've lined up quick check-ins from one player with each team to look ahead to the summer and what they're expecting out of their respective teams. Today, we focus on the East Division, while the West Division comes tomorrow. 1:09 - Regina Red Sox - Brady Bye 6:34 - Saskatoon Berries - Aidan Mar...

For the first time since 2017, the Canadian College Baseball Conference championship belongs to Prairie Baseball Academy. After the last few years of hosting the CCBC World Series but not making it to the big game, head coach Todd Hubka and company claimed first place in the regular season and made it count this past weekend, finishing it up with a 12-7 win over the Edmonton Collegiate Hawks. Duri...

An MLB debut, a first MLB homer, college awards season, the CCBC championship is underway and ... oh yeah ... an Alberta coaching legend. This is a jam-packed edition of the show as we go through all the news from the past week before we catch up with someone we've always wanted to have on the show. Dave Robb checks in to talk about his journey in the game, how he ended up in Alberta in the first...

Growing up on the farm, it can sometimes be tough to find enough time in the day to play baseball in the summer. You have animals or crops to take care of, farmyards to maintain, and there’s never an end to the oddball jobs you can find. But when you love it, you find the time. Such was the case with Skyler Stromsmoe. Born and raised on the family farm just outside Etzikom in southeast Alberta, he...

We put the wraps on another really busy week of baseball news before a trio of excellent conversations. Hear from Okanagan College catcher Nick Sauve (Calgary) as he's putting together a great CCBC season, University of Mary senior Kalem Haney (Lethbridge) discusses setting records down south, and Geoff Seto stops by to talk about the upcoming Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase tryout cam...

With the baseball season really starting to ramp up, we have a few more bonus episodes of the show coming your way in the coming weeks and this is one of the first. With Baseball Canada's Junior National Team heading off to the Dominican Republic, we thought we'd check in with head coach and men's team director Greg Hamilton to talk about what he's seeing with this year's edition of the team, the...

Yet another busy week of baseball news to put the wraps on so we get you covered before a trio of great conversations. Hear from Edmonton Collegiate Hawks slugger Caedyn Colford (Lacombe/Drayton Valley) after he set the CCBC single-season record for home runs, University of Calgary Dinos utilityman Mason Bristow (Calgary) talks about repping his hometown team, and Miles Community College rising st...

We put the wrap on another busy week of news (including some breaking news about a promotion for a Border City product) then have a couple of great guests join us in Wyatt McKeen (Calgary) of the University of Fraser Valley Cascades and Kaden Prosofsky (Saskatoon) of the College of the Desert Roadrunners. Then Joe McFarland talks about families making their summer plans and the opportunity that ma...

What a wild week it was for Alberta baseball products in Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, the college ranks and even the national teams. We bring you all the news and notes from the last seven days, then we bring you three great conversations. Hear from Edmonton Collegiate Hawks utilityman and record-holder Brayden Morris, Aqil Samuel of the Sylvan Lake Gulls , and former Toronto Blue...

We have another jam-packed show with tons of news and a trio of great guests. Hear from Prairie Baseball Academy slugger Declan O'Kane (Ontario) as he's putting up an amazing season in the CCBC. Then we catch up with Ryan Kucy (Edmonton/AHP Academy) as he's now into his senior season at St. Bonaventure University, where he's taken on a new position on the field. And we wrap things up by welcoming...

It was a jam-packed week with plenty of news from around MLB, MiLB, the college ranks, high school, the Junior National Team, and the grassroots. So we recap it all in the news before a trio of fantastic guests. Hear from University of Calgary Dinos utilityman Colin Baxter as they head towards their home opener this weekend, Berries Academy grad and Hutchinson Community College standout freshman A...

What a wild week of news with Michael Soroka's debut with Arizona , Erik Sabrowski's dominance in Cleveland and Tristan Peters getting his first big league hit. We catch up on all the news of the past week before we hear from Prairie Baseball Academy alum Carter Claerhout as his monster season at Bellevue University continues. Then we get to know Carson Friesen of the Edmonton Collegiate Hawks aft...

Week one of the Canadian College Baseball Conference season is in the books so we head there for a pair of guests this week. Hear from Prairie Baseball Academy pitcher Sean Bavis (Banff/Canmore) about his journey in the game and his first career CCBC start and we catch up with Devery Van De Keere (Barrhead) as he's taken the reigns at the new University Baseball Club based at UBC. Then, for someth...

After the tremendous success of the inaugural Rural Roots Baseball Classic in Oyen last summer, the Western Canadian Baseball League is making it an annual tradition. The circuit announced on Monday that Carnduff, Saskatchewan will play host to the event on May 29th with the Weyburn Beavers at home to the Saskatoon Berries. The league held a news conference to make the announcement and to allow re...

It's finally here! The Canadian College Baseball Conference season gets going this weekend with a full slate of games. As always, we have you covered with our annual CCBC Season Preview Extravaganza . Hear from The Battery Media's Logan Wedgewood as he breaks down his predictions for the season, then we get to know Tetsu Nishida (Calgary) of Prairie Baseball Academy and Jace Daku (Martensville) of...