Team Canada in the World Baseball Classic is being managed by Ernie Whitt, who isn’t technically Canadian but earned honorary status by virtue of spending a dozen years catching for the Blue Jays. Whitt is a member of the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, and he’s managed Canada in the WBC, the Olympics, the Pan-Am Games, and other tournaments.
On Whitt’s staff for this year’s WBC will be another former Blue Jays catcher, one who didn’t spend nearly as much time playing in Toronto but has the advantage of actually being Canadian.