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Bat Flips and Nerds Minor League Free Agent Draft

January 23, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Inspired by Effectively Wild, the best baseball podcast on that side of the Atlantic, we at Bat Flips and Nerds decided to embark on our own Minor League Free Agent Draft. To spice up the event, we pitted ourselves against

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It’s been a while! So let’s talk everything Mets

January 18, 2021 Alex Worth Baseball, Team Contributors

So, it’s been a while since I wrote anything about the Mets for Bat Flips and Nerds. So while the optimism is sky-high for Mets fans right now, why not write an article to summarise the madness that these last

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Indians include free Cookie in Lindor trade to Mets

January 7, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

In one deal, the New York Mets catapulted themselves into serious World Series contenders and potentially secured the services of their “face of the franchise” for the rest of the decade. The deal, in case you missed it, sees the

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2021 Free agents: Pay the DJ

January 4, 2021 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Yeah, I get it. The tsunami of data available across baseball has allowed clubs to save millions upon millions of dollars by demonstrating that the expected production from a 32-year-old free agent could be only marginally different from a player

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Tampa Bay Rays: Warding off doom-mongers in 2021

January 2, 2021 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

I have been a Rays fan for over a decade. Every offseason is a carbon copy of the last. No matter how well the previous season has gone the Rays are constantly written off, constantly overlooked and yet almost every

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Cleveland Indians: Final year as the Indians?

December 29, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

So it looks like the Cleveland Indians will get their long-awaited name change. Team owner Paul Dolan said: “The name is no longer acceptable in our world.” But, as Elon Musk proved after naming his child X Æ A-12, choosing

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Seriously, the Pirates can win the NL Central in 2021

December 29, 2020 Russell Eassom Baseball

The final acts of some MLB teams in 2020 has been to confirm once again that owners have little or no care about winning the World Series or even getting to the playoffs if it costs them too much money.

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Blake Snell to Padres for more than just a slapdick prospect

December 28, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

A blockbuster trade went down late on Sunday night which will send former Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell across the continent from Florida to California. It looks like a win-win trade and hardly a slapdick prospect in sight. The

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San Francisco Giants: The return of Buster Posey

December 20, 2020 Ash Day Baseball, San Franciso Giants, Team Contributors

When an injured player is set to return in the world of football, managers love to refer to the player as being “like a new signing.” It became one of Arsene Wenger’s catchphrases at Arsenal, such was his fondness for

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San Francisco Giants: Quintana, Odorizzi and Archer to SF?

November 25, 2020 Ash Day Baseball, San Franciso Giants, Team Contributors

The lack of free agent movement so far indicates most teams are unenthusiastic to commit their precious dollars to available players. With the Covid-19 shortened 2020 season significantly impacting team revenue, owners have been hesitant to splash the cash this

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