Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast

We continue our #1Thru9 series with a look at Vauxhall Academy and a chat with Les McTavish. We also chat with Dawgs Academy grad and Okotoks native Matt Lloyd about going viral with his swing recently and about the work he needs to do to get noticed by MLB scouts ahead of the 2019 draft.

In the first installment of our academy profiles in our province, we chat with Tyler Hollick from Dawgs Academy about the facilities and what it means to him to give back to the program he graduated from. We also catch up with San Diego Padres draft pick Erik Sabrowski about his phenomenal 2018 campaign and what he's doing right now after undergoing Tommy John Surgery.

After a stellar showing for Baseball Canada at the Women's Baseball World Cup, Red Deer's Kelsey Lalor finished up the season by being named Baseball Alberta's Women's Open Player of the Year recently. We chatted with her as well as former Medicine Hat Blue Jays catcher Guillermo Quiroz, who now coaches in the Chicago White Sox system.

Just in time for the holidays, we've launched a new fundraiser which might help you grab some gifts for the baseball fan in your life. So we chat about the items & wax nostalgic about those stories. We also sit down with Baseball Alberta's Midget AAA player of the year: Ben Prediger.

It's not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "when" Foothills Stadium in Calgary is demolished. Had Calgary decided to host the 2026 Olympics, we might have had a more definitive timeline for the wrecking ball. Also on this episode: we sit down with former Dawgs Academy product and Boston Red Sox draft pick Jordan Procyshen.

One is a draft pick of the Minnesota Twins while the other is beginning his first season at the University of Houston. LaRon Smith and Kobe Hyland have a dream to one day play together in the MLB. We chatted with them about their great 2018 campaigns, what's to come in 2019 and sibling rivalries.

Baseball Alberta's Darren Dekinder chats with Joe McFarland about how 2018 will be remembered and what we can look forward to in 2019 as the game has seen exponential growth in all facets across the province over the last decade.

In the opening episode of Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast, Ian Wilson and Joe McFarland introduces you to...themselves. More than a year into the venture, we talk about the creation of Alberta Dugout Stories, our favourite stories and what's to come as we dive into the world of podcasting.

You have seen the website and the social media. Now, we're taking Alberta Dugout Stories down a new basepath.