The Western Canadian Baseball League’s board of governors voted unanimously Wednesday to cancel the 2020 WCBL season. If absolutely necessary, a one-game playoff would be played in case of a tie. All rights reserved. Ottawa was left out of the expanded league. Two additional playoff spots would be made available. president, and part owner of the San Francisco Giants, Jeff Mallett. The VIA deal was more of an exchange, in return for advertisements, the railroad handled some league travel. League roster rules gave each player an LS (Length of Service) rating, based on the number of full years the player had played professionally: Rookie, LS-1 through LS-5, and Veteran. Canadian Baseball League gets National TV deal, https://bpv.baseball-reference.com/bpv/index.php?title=Canadian_Baseball_League&oldid=800360. The league office was in Dayton, Ohio. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. Over the years, the league hosted teams from Cuba, Japan and the Dominican Republic.[6]. Beginning in 2006, the league abandoned divisional play. [5], However, despite early promises that the league could, and would, average over 2,000 fans per game, it was clear that the CBL was not remotely close to projections. The Brockton Rox moved to the Futures Collegiate Baseball League after the 2011 season. The Quebec Capitales would go on to win their second League Championship. The league changed the team's name back to Rapids, a spelling used during the team's founding (Rapides in French). Teammate Jesus Matos was named the league's Most Outstanding Pitcher with a 5-2 record, 3.04 ERA and league-leading 79 strikeouts. After the East's Francisco Cabrera (London), Pascual Matos (Trois-Rivières) and Armando Guerrero (Montreal) did not hit any home runs, Jamie Gann (Kelowna) hit one over the left field wall winning the game for the West. [4]. Rosters were limited to 23 players once the regular season began. For 2007, the Atlantic City Surf joined from the Atlantic League, and the league re-established The Grays, after a year of dormancy, as a tenth team. [1] Canadian Baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins was brought in to act as the league's Commissioner. Still later, the Atlantic City franchise was terminated, as a sale fell through. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. The Western Division defeated the Eastern Division 6 to 5 after ten innings and one home run derby. The Can-Am League operated in cities not directly served by Major or Minor League teams and was not affiliated with either. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith. The Can-Am League was created when the Northeast League was renamed in 2005. The all-star game was played at Burns Stadium in Calgary, AB on July 23. Riviera's vision had big goals, and he followed suit by making big promises. The team intending to fill the void left by the rumors surronding the relocation of the city's National League team. In 2014, the Can-Am League announced that a fifth team, based in Ottawa, would join the league for 2015. Do you have a blog? Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. For 2008, Ottawa, which had lost its franchise in the International League, joined the Can-Am League as the Rapidz, an eighth franchise, displacing the Grays. To obviate such disruptive last-minute schedule changes in the future, the Northeast League adopted a new charter, giving the league new powers to ensure that its franchises were solvent, and renamed itself the Canadian-American Association. In 2019, the league scheduled a 95-game regular season. Beginning in 2012, the league stopped using the half-season format. Calgary won the league's championship, the Jenkins Cup (named for the commissioner), with a 24 - 13 record as of the league's final games on July 20. If the game remained tied, the process repeated until one team won. The league was composed of eight Canadian cities and was attempted to establish a national league. The league was composition was: Despite the national presence of the league at its announcement, during the league's planning phase, the CBL had a more westernly focus, as evidenced by the some of the early proposed teams: The league signed its first players on December 4 and held a dispersal draft for its teams in April. The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) is committed to the Edmonton Prospects Baseball Club as it navigates the 2021 season while a new home ballpark is being built in Spruce Grove. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. On March 30, 2009, the league announced that it would shrink to six teams rather than having two league-operated teams.[3]. The Northeast League became its own entity again for the 2003 season and continued play for one additional year before the renaming of the league. For the original "Can-Am League", which operated between 1936 and 1951, see, American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, U.S. independent professional leagues' awards, "Pro baseball back – Berkshire Eagle Online", "Official Website of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball", https://beta.canamleague.com/dominican-squad-to-tour-can-am-league-in-2017/, "Frontier League, Can-Am League to Join Forces", Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, Can-Am Association Encyclopedia and History at Baseball Reference, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canadian_American_Association_of_Professional_Baseball&oldid=980392738, Defunct independent baseball leagues in the United States, Articles with dead external links from July 2020, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 26 September 2020, at 08:27. The opening day was on May 21, 2003, at London's Labatt Park. However most players made about $2–3,000 every month. The series was expanded from a best of five to a best of seven. The remaining assets of the league were quietly auctioned off on December 1, 2003 in Vancouver, BC. Riviera stated that the CBL would be "AAA quality", He was The league folded halfway through its only season with the Calgary Outlaws crowned champions and recipient of the Jenkins Cup. For example, the teams could travel to the visitors' ballpark for the middle game of a series. However, the remaining assets of the league were quietly auctioned off on December 1, 2003 in Vancouver and the league never returned. Are you a Stathead, too? Final approval was granted by the city for use of Wahconah Park on February 1. Each of the regular clubs of the league played a series of 3 or 4 games against these international teams and the results of those games counted in the regular season standings. In its inaugural season, the Can-Am League kept the two-division setup and half-season format that the Northeast League had. To procure players, John Haar, former Canadian national teamhead coach, was hired as the league's Director of Operations. Only the Victoria Capitals drew above the league's sustenance level of 1,500, averaging 1,681 fans per game. The Calgary Outlaws were declared the Jenkins Cup champions on the basis of having the league's best record. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. From this point until its merger with the Frontier League, the league awarded playoff spots to the teams with the four best records at the end of the regular season. Pittsfield's franchise charter was rescinded after the 2011 season and the Colonials folded after ownership could not find partners. After the 2008 season, Rapidz management declared bankruptcy. On October 16, 2019, the independent Frontier League announced that it was merging with the Can-Am League for the 2020 season. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. On December 19, 2009, league directors preliminarily gave approval to transfer the membership of the American Defenders of New Hampshire from Nashua, New Hampshire, to Pittsfield, Massachusetts for play in the 2010 season. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. This changed in 2015 when Ottawa and Sussex County joined the league, which enabled it to have enough teams to return to its previous playoff format. The CBL was the brainchild of Tony Riviera, a former major league scout, and the face of the league. Following the game, a home run derby was held that produced a combined total of zero home runs. Some published rosters stated the LS rating of each player.[8]. The Northeast League was formed in 1995 and played four seasons as an independent league. Riviera's vision had big goals, and he followed suit by making big promises. The Abbotsford Saints relocated to Trois Rivieres, Quebec before the season started. No Rose, but former Blue Jays slugger Carter voted in, ESPN.com, March 13, 2003, "Canadian Baseball League gets National TV deal, Channelcanada.com, January 23, 2003", enterstageright.com, Jackson Murphy, July 21, 2003, Empty Field of Dreams, thetyee.ca, April 5, 2004, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canadian_Baseball_League&oldid=959613345, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, The Score (18 regular season games, CBL All-Star Game and Jenkins Cup Championship), This page was last edited on 29 May 2020, at 17:38. The new Sussex Skyhawks replaced the Elmira Pioneers, which moved into the amateur New York Collegiate Baseball League; and the Nashua Pride joined the league from the Atlantic League. The Nashua Pride franchise was sold and was known in 2009 as the American Defenders of New Hampshire because of the military tie-ins of its new ownership group. The league only had two sponsors, VIA Rail and Pepsi. [2] The winning name was "Voyageurs". Though a separate entity, the league shared a commissioner, president, and director of umpires with the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. If a game went beyond the tenth inning, each half-inning began with a runner on second base. In its place, the league awarded the Rockland Boulders a franchise, added the Newark Bears from the Atlantic League, and formed the New York Federals as a traveling team.

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