The Regina Red Sox are ready to step up to the plate - BERITAJA

The Regina Red Sox are stepping backmost successful the batter’s container pinch momentum and expectations arsenic their play gets underway connected Thursday.

Coming disconnected a title run, the nine knows its opponents are ceiling them, fresh to return their champion changeable astatine the defending Western Canadian Baseball League champs. Despite being a target, it doesn’t faze them arsenic caput coach Rye Pothakos tells us.

“We’re conscionable going to play our marque of shot and if we’re surviving successful everybody else’s head, that’s fine.”

Still, the Red Sox are built for it. A beardown returning halfway that helped anchor past season’s occurrence is backmost successful the mix, bringing familiarity, chemistry and a winning modular to the 2026 campaign. Guys for illustration playoff MVP Brady Bye and pitchers Zander Oudie-Senger and Colton Bank.

“To person returning guys, and you cognize our section guys, you cognize [Daniel] Crabtree is backmost arsenic good and had a twelvemonth disconnected pinch injury, truthful we’re looking for immoderate activity pinch those guys and [to] conscionable group the reside for the caller guys to show them the lead and the atmosphere,” said Pothakos.

Around them, Pothakos has reloaded the roster pinch a activity of caller collegiate talent, including respective NCAA players who are expected to make an contiguous impact. Pothakos is pleased pinch his recruiting and excited to spot what they will bring this season.

“They’ve each travel fresh to go, connected the violative side, we sewage Raine [Kreklewetz], [Mason] Tafoya, Mason Canter,” he said. “We sewage a bully group of guys, Matteo Pierre, he’s a U23 nationalist squad catcher for France, he’s sewage immoderate world competition, truthful he’s fresh to spell arsenic well, we sewage a bully group.”

With caller faces pushing for roles and veterans mounting the tone, title has been tight from time one. Now, arsenic the play opens, Regina isn’t conscionable swinging for wins — they are mounting their sights retired of the parkland successful the hopes of bringing location back-to-back WCBL titles.