What we are naming is 23 solid commitments. We've committed them, they've committed to us, all the paperwork is in place, there's no physical issues and concerns on the part of the clubs.
"Greg Hamilton" is a Canada/Canadian baseball player, coach and executive.
Hamilton was born in Toronto and grew up in Peterborough, Ontario. He played hockey as a freshman at Princeton University, then became a pitcher for the baseball team. Hamilton was on the Ivy League champions in 1991. He also was assistant coach two years at Princeton. In 1992, Hamilton was hired as pitching coach for the Canada national baseball team/Team Canada. He got a job as pitching coach and GM of the Barracudas de Montpellier of Division Élite in France in 1993 and helped the team to three titles in a row, their most successful run to date. Part of his success came from his recruitment of Jeff Zimmerman, who became the most notable player to emerge from the French league in the 20th Century. He was pitching coach for the France national baseball team/French national team in 1994, making him pitching coach for two senior national teams on different continents.
Hamilton left Team Canada in 1996 to become head coach of the Canadian junior national team, leading them to a Bronze Medal in the 1997 World Junior Championship. He was named Baseball Canada Coach of the Year that season. It was also his last year as Montpellier's coach and GM.
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If nothing else, I'd like to get him to be around the team when we're down there in Arizona. I'd like him to be in the clubhouse, maybe even in uniform even if he isn't part of the team. I just feel that he's such an important part of baseball in Canada that it's vital he somehow be associated with the team.
Mentally and physically he's not at a point where he can commit to playing but he would like to be involved and we've discussed that. Obviously we'd like to have him involved in any context.
We had a good talk recently and I'm going to chat with him again in another week or so to see where we stand.
This is an important tournament to us. It's competitive and it offers us a good evaluation tool.
I think it would be just great for Canadian baseball. There's a natural connection. Hopefully it all gets worked out.
He's disappointed it's probably not going to happen. We're going to revisit things with him in another 10-12 days, see if things are moving quicker than maybe he thought. If there happens to be a change of view on his part, we've been given assurances that we can reopen that scenario.
Absolutely we will with players of that level and potentially of that impact for us. But I'd like to think and I'm pretty confident that those decisions will get made in a timely manner.
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