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Greg Hamilton, the director of national programs for Baseball Canada, shared a table with manager Ernie Whitt on Tuesday, talking up prospects for this spring’s WBC.
The pair aren’t yet ready to reveal names for the team but remain hopeful that some of the top young Canadian-eligible players will be made available by their MLB teams.
“We’re going to try to get the best 30 players we can off the charts that we have and go from there,” former Jays catcher Whitt said. “We’ve got our fingers crossed.”
“There’s the obvious players we want,” Hamilton added. “I think everyone knows who they are.”
You can count players such as Freddie Freeman of the Dodgers and Josh Naylor of the Guardians in that group.
But not a Montreal-born slugger by the name Vlad Guerrero Jr.
“I didn’t talk to him directly, but I kicked some tires to see if there would be an appetite or an interest,” Hamilton said. “There wasn’t a disinterest, but I think it’s clear where he’s going to go. I understand.”
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