No Edmonton Prospects 2023 Season

The Edmonton Prospects of the Western Major Baseball League will not be on the field next season due to delays in construction of a new ballpark in Spruce Grove.

The college team announced plans to move to a new field in May 2020 after the Edmonton Riverhawks took over the RE/MAX field in Edmonton’s River Valley, but continued delays and a $50 million The field opening date has been postponed to 2024. .

Patrick Cassidy is a Managing Partner of Gold Sports and Entertainment Group Corp., which operates baseball teams and manages facilities. He said the decision to keep the team off the field next season was purely business.

“Organizations have a lot of finite resources in all cases, such as people and money. So you have to decide where to put your money, where to focus your attention and get your people to work on your priorities. ‘ said Cassidy.

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“Right now, our priority is to build that ballpark, open it, and have it ready when it opens… Playing an interim season at some interim ballpark would basically take away that focus. felt.”

Cassidy said he wasn’t too worried about Prospect’s players leaving the team.

“Players will find places to play. Some will find opportunities in our league, others will find opportunities in other leagues,” Cassidy said.

“We have a lot of players available.

Cassidy said such a move had been made before in the league when the Okotoks Dawgs were off for a year after moving from Calgary 15 years ago. It became a successful franchise.

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