Ottawa Titans

The Ottawa Titans (French: Titans d'Ottawa), officially Ottawa Titans Baseball Club (Club de baseball des Titans d'Ottawa), are a professional baseball team based in Ottawa. The Titans compete in the Frontier League (FL) as a member of the North Division in the Atlantic Conference. Since 2022, the team has played its home games at Ottawa Stadium, originally known as JetForm Park. The Titans became the city's 8th professional baseball franchise succeeding the Eastern League's Ottawa Wanderers, the International League's Ottawa Giants, Ottawa Athletics and Ottawa Lynx, the Intercounty Baseball League's Ottawa Fat Cats, as well as the Can-Am League's Ottawa Rapidz and Ottawa Champions.

Founded in 2020, the Titans played their inaugural season in 2022 due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario. The franchise was created as part of the planned 2021 Frontier League expansion.

The Titans have made it to the playoffs two times in franchise history, in 2022 and 2024. They however lost both times in the semifinal round against their fierce rivals, the Québec Capitales. The Titans mascot is Cappy.

After the 2019 season, the Can-Am League merged with the Frontier League, with five of the six remaining teams joining the league. The remaining team, the Ottawa Champions, were not invited to take part, but it was not immediately clear if they would fold or go on hiatus as owner Miles Wolff, looked to sell the team. He could not find a buyer, and the team folded operations.

In September 2020, the FL decided to expand to Ottawa, granting a franchise to a group led by Sam Katz, the former mayor of Winnipeg and owner of the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association; Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, who owns the Ottawa 67’s junior hockey team and the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League; and local lawyer Jacques J.M. Shore. Following a contest, the team was named the Titans.

On 6 October 2020, Ottawa announced Steve Brook as the team's inaugural manager. Brook previously managed the River City Rascals in the FL from 2010 to 2019. He led the Rascals to a 488–373 record over his nine seasons at the helm including the 2010 and 2019 championships. In December 2020, Ottawa announced the team name as Ottawa Titans a result of a name-the-team contest, and the team colours in the tradition of Ottawa sports franchises such as the Ottawa Redblacks, Ottawa 67's, and Ottawa Senators.

With the Canada-United states border closing in March 2020, the Titans' inaugural season was deferred to 2022. In 2021, the Canadian players from the Ottawa Titans, Québec Capitales and Trois-Rivières Aigles were combined to create a single team called Équipe Québec. The team played away from home in the first half of the season, returning to Canada in late July to play 21 home games, shared between Stade Canac in Quebec City and Stade Quillorama in Trois-Rivières.

On 30 July 2021, Équipe Québec hosted the New York Boulders at Stade Canac and won the game 10–8 in front of 2,800 spectators, the maximum number that was allowed due to the government of Quebec's public health restrictions.