Two and a half years after their last game in the Can-Am league, the Capitals are finally preparing to enter the Frontier league. There will be fireworks, literally and figuratively, assured Patrick Scalabrini, who promises a festival of home runs at Stade Canac this summer.
The head coach made no secret of the attack ahead this winter, by assembling the 2022 version of the Capitals.
I feel pretty bad for the branches of the old trees in Victoria Park on the left fence of the field, but we will destroy some of them. We have some big guys with a history of hitting long balls and we should make a lot of pointslaunched Scalabrini with a smile, Thursday at noon, at a press conference.
The latter admitted that he was influenced by his experience last summer in leading the defunct Team Quebec. A formation whose offensive skill has often redeemed the see-saw presentation on the mound, leading to spectacular returns.
I was very excited and I talked a lot about it. People like that, offense and home run, so I emphasize.
A quartet of home run hitters
So it’s no surprise that the two leaders of Team Quebec in the RBI last season, local star David Glaude and Dominican receiver Jeffrey Para are back on the Capitals roster.
Added to this are two new power hitters. After several years in affiliate baseball, American Josh McAdams hit 22 homers last season in the Atlantic League. The impressive first baseman will combine player and batting coach positions in the Capitals this summer.
Dominican Pedro Gonzalez, meanwhile, will try to use this season in Quebec as a springboard to return to affiliate baseball. In 2019, at age 21, the giant format outfielder earned 23 home runs at level A in the organization’s Rangers from Texas.
It is dangerous to make predictions. Some people thought Cole Caufield could score 40 goals this season with the CanadiensPatrick Scalabrini’s joke on Thursday. But we have at least four guys who should hit about 15 home runs.
Not to mention the two Cuban hitters who have not yet arrived in Quebec.
The future of the Capitals is assured
Next to Scalabrini, Michel Laplante admitted to living an emotional day. It’s hard, but we’re proudlaunched the president about the last two years in which his organization has taken steps to ensure the future of the Capitals in the Frontier League.
It’s so easy to say nothing, leave the league and let America’s 12 cities play against each other. But when we try to re -enter the circuit this year, we will probably be told that it was going well without us and we found ourselves without a league.
In this sense, last season’s bet, the formation of a Quebec team that spent the first eleven weeks of the season on the road south of the border, paid off. The Capitales, the Trois-Rivières Aigles and the Ottawa Titans now form a trio of Canadian teams into a 16-team Frontier League. A number that makes it the largest independent baseball circuit in North America.
Undoubtedly, Michel Laplante assured, the future of the Capitals is now certain. Especially since the team signed a record number of partnerships this winter, and the number of young people registered in minor baseball in the larger Quebec City region is at its highest in decades.
The Capitals began their training camp on Friday at Henri-Casault Park in Charlesbourg, if weather permits, or at the dome of the Stade Canac. The team will begin its season on May 13 in Illinois. The home opener in Quebec City will take place on May 24th.
Source: Radio-Canada
