Owen promoted to the Pittsburgh Pirates
May 5, 2021
Hunter Owen was a WMBL First-Team All-Star during his only season in Swift Current in 2014.
SOUTHWEST BOOSTER FILE PHOTO BY STEVEN MAH
A former member of the Swift Current 57’s is nearing his Major League Baseball debut. Hunter Owen was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the MLB roster on Tuesday after four seasons in the club’s minor league system.
Owen, 27, was a 25th-round pick of the Pirates in the 2016 MLB Draft. The Evansville, IN native played for the Swift Current Indians in the Western Major Baseball League in the summer of 2014 after his freshman season at Indiana State University.
(Submitted/Regina Red Sox)
The Dewdney Avenue rail yards could be home to a new baseball stadium in the future.
Now, the Regina Red Sox of the Western Major Baseball League have teamed up with Living Sky Sports Entertainment (LSSE) on a memorandum of understanding to develop a stadium on the vacant land downtown.
Red Sox president Gary Brotzel believes a new stadium would do a lot for the local economy.
“We are pleased to make this announcement today and encouraged to have been able to present our plans and vision to City Council this past Wednesday,” Brotzel said in a release Wednesday.