About Us
One Collective, Two Stories.
The West Coast Baseball Collective grows the game across the West Coast. The Abbotsford Cardinals grow the players and shape the people inside it. Here is what it's all about, and why we are changing the game.
01 Why the Collective exists
The best players are grown.
A hundred years ago the St. Louis Cardinals stopped leaving player development to luck. They built the first farm system, so a young ballplayer got the same coaching and the same standards wherever he went, and it changed the game.
The West Coast Baseball Collective is a new player development organization founded here in British Columbia, with the Abbotsford Cardinals at the centre of it. It brings together elite coaching, strength and mental performance, individualized year-round training and high-level competition. Cardinals players get full access to all of it, and the Cardinals continue exactly as before in the BCPBL. Nothing changes there. What is new is everything around them.
The Collective gets about five years with a player, and it is the five decades after that matter most. Five years of growth for five decades of leadership.
That's what we are building with the West Coast Baseball Collective.
02 The shared philosophy
- Purpose
To develop the people who lead the game.
- Vision
To set the gold standard for Canadian baseball, where the best come to find their best.
- Mission
We forge elite student-athletes through a culture of high stakes and high support.
- Promise
You're here to grow, and we're here to support you.
The standard the whole Collective plays by.
03 The Collective
High stakes on the field.
High support around the athlete.
The Whole field, and everyone around it. One collective, built to develop players now, and support them for what's next.
On the field High stakes
Around the athlete High support
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West Coast Body
Strength, conditioning, athletic development.
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West Coast Mind
Mental performance and the inner game.
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Youth Development
Every part of the game, all off-season.
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College Placement
Getting players recruited. Coming soon.