The non-tender deadline provided a few shocks as teams finally ran out of patience waiting for breakouts, or they just decided to cut ties with significant arbitration figures looming. You could build a half-decent team from the non-tendered players.
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Legacy. It’s a strange word. In the build-up to the 2012 Olympics, it became a byword for legitimising £9 billion of expenditure. But what is the legacy of London 2012? Do we have more kids participating in athletics? I doubt
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This is one big dude. That’s the first thought I have as 26-year old Minnesota Twins star Max Kepler walks into the room and shakes hands. It’s not a very original thought. He’s a 6’4 professional athlete. Those guys tend
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Like most of you I follow many baseball writers on Twitter so I can get their views on the latest news and read their new articles. Their aren’t many sites I check every day to see what new content is
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There is an absence of any breeze and the sky is cloudless, through the trees steeples and towers can be seen from the nearby Cloisters and a brace of churches of unknown denomination. The tarmac is almost sticky as the
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Welcome back to BF&N Ash Day… The MLB offseason is pure torture. Fans long for the return of baseball and the warmer weather that accompanies it. The winter crawls by as we eagerly count down the days until pitchers and
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In a new section at Bat Flips and Nerds, Dross From Amateurs, we feature posts that don’t quite fit anywhere on the internet. At all. Baseball is boring. That’s what we keep hearing, it’s too long, it’s stagnated, it’s full
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In the midst of its Postseason, and probably unbeknownst to most of its fans, MLB has taken its next steps in using an automated ball-strike system or “Robo Umps” as I like to call them. This was first tested in
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The end of the regular season is the time of the season when I check the playoff odds every day, to see how much they have changed. As I have said with WAR in my previous pieces, these are values
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