The West Coast League (WCL) is thrilled to announce the official opening of the 2025 season tonight, featuring 14 of the League’s 17 teams in action. This summer each team will play 54 official WCL games, starting tonight and concluding on August 6. The season will culminate in the championship playoffs, featuring eight teams and …
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First 2025 WCL Spotlight
Thursday, West Coast League Commissioner Rob Neyer released the first WCL Spotlight of 2025, on the eve of the West Coast League’s 20th Anniversary season. “With 17 teams in our league this season,” Neyer said, “and all of them drawing from rich sources of baseball talent, the WCL has a practically infinite number of young players …
WCL Teams Provide Opportunities for Youth
Several youth baseball initiatives are taking place during the West Coast League’s 20th Anniversary Season, highlighted by the Community Champions Game in Bellingham, Washington on July 15, the night before the Bells host the WCL’s All-Star Game. The Community Champions Game is played by athletes from the Max Higbee Center, which supports teens and adults …
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West Coast League Announces Partnership with MaxBP
The West Coast League announced an exciting partnership with MaxBP, the industry leader in Fast Training for baseball and softball, Thursday. This collaboration establishes MaxBP as the presenting partner of WCL Live, the league’s video livestreaming platform. MaxBP will also be providing all WCL teams with advanced training solutions to accelerate player development. “We’re thrilled …
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Legends of the WCL – Season 2
To celebrate its upcoming 20th season, the West Coast League is proud to launch Season 2 of its LEGENDS OF THE WCL series, a weekly celebration throughout May and June of the league’s most iconic alumni and their journeys from summer ball to the big leagues. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural season, …
WCL Origins: 20 Years Ago
It’s probably not fair to the West Coast League’s founding members to call the league’s beginnings humble … but, in retrospect? Yes, it would have been difficult, 20 years ago, to imagine what the West Coast League has become since four men met in an ancient Columbia River Gorge hotel to sketch the beginnings of …
WCL Alumni Impact MLB Opening Day
This year, a record 42 West Coast League alumni were listed on Major League Baseball’s Opening Day rosters. The total includes 2024 AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal (Kitsap/Detroit Tigers), who made his second straight Opening Day start for Detroit. On Opening Day, Steven Kwan (Corvallis/Cleveland Guardians), a three-time Gold Glove winner and 2024 …
Dane Siegfried Receives Grass Roots Award
On January 24 and 25 in Portland, the West Coast League’s board of directors and general managers convened for the League’s annual winter meetings. Held in conjunction with the annual Northwest Baseball Coaches Association Convention, the League’s meetings celebrate and reinforce the deep, long-standing connection between the League and the region’s coaches from every level …
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WCL Announces 2024 Charitable Outreach
This week the West Coast League announced that in 2024 nearly $500,000 was generated via in-kind and monetary donations through its member clubs’ charitable outreach. In addition, 50/50 raffles produced more than $100,000 more for local charities in Victoria and Nanaimo, British Columbia. The WCL’s charity work impacts 17 teams’ communities in the U.S. states …
WCL Announces 2025 All-Star Game
After a highly successful event earlier this year, the West Coast League announced its All-Star Game will return to Bellingham, Washington on July 16, 2025. The Bellingham Bells will host the event at iconic Joe Martin Field. Featuring top players from each of the league’s 17 teams, the WCL’s marquee event will be livestreamed around …
WCL Alumni Trio Earns MLB Awards
Wednesday night, Tarik Skubal capped his stellar 2024 season by being named the American League’s Cy Young Award winner. Prior to his pro career, the Detroit Tigers left-hander pitched for the Kitsap BlueJackets in 2014, followed by four years at Seattle University before being drafted by Detroit in 2018. Skubal earned the American League’s “pitching …
West Coast League Announces 2025 Schedule
Thursday, the West Coast League (WCL) announced its official 2025 schedule. The WCL, which debuted in 2005, will celebrate its 20th season next summer with 17 teams located in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alberta. “Each season the league adds another chapter to its rich history,” Commissioner Rob Neyer said,” and with our All-Star Game, …
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