Who needs projection systems? Last week, the Bat Flips and Nerds podcast crew got together and produced a meticulously-crafted set of win predictions for all 30 major league teams, live on YouTube, in just one hour. Some pedants might argue
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Update: 10am, GMT – now includes quotes from Red Sox, Joel Sherman, YES Network video. 4pm, GMT – AP quotes from Aaron Boone, Greg Bird. Late last night the business website Bloomberg broke the latest in a series of mini-scoops
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In the popular early 90s TV show ‘Harry and the Hendersons’, a young family – the Hendersons – take in the eponymous Harry and adopt him as a pet of sorts. A mascot. Harry is very much part of the
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By Joey Mellows – @BaseballBrit Header photo of Clipper Magazine Stadium, home of the Lancaster Barnstormers (Atlantic League) Independent baseball remains an important, if overlooked, element of the American pastime. Wild, exciting and often misunderstood, the independent baseball leagues represent
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This past week, John McGee sat down to talk with the head of MLB UK, Charlie Hill, to answer some burning questions about the future of Major League Baseball in the UK. Below are some of the key points from
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Chris Brown thinks MLB should take a leaf out of T20 cricket’s book… Right, Rob Manfred are you listening? Pace of play is the number 1 issue that us Brits have with the game apparently, so in advance of the
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Returning to BF&N with the first dispatch of his globetrotting year, it’s BaseballBrit… On March 3rd, in front of a boisterous crowd of 33,748 at the Nagoma Dome, the second best baseball team in the world, Samurai Japan, beat the
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Joining us for a debut post on BF&N, welcome Jed Oliver… Finally, the Detroit Tigers have shedded some of those expensive contracts & begun to rebuild. They will be young and exciting, they will be a fun team to watch.
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Our good friend Baseball Brit returns and this time he’s taking on PECOTA. The off-season can be a long and arduous wait for baseball-starved fans of the MLB. Not so for mathematically inclined nerds, however. Each year there are a
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This post by podcast guest Mark Blakemore,originally featured on Bases Loaded in 2014. Check out his other player profiles The Big Unit, and The Kid I once bumped into Ted Williams. Not figuratively or metaphorically but literally bumped into him. Our interactions
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