With the 2019 MLB season about to start, a whirlwind of uncertainty surrounds the game. Firstly, the second year of cold ‘hot stove season’ with limited free agency signings happening has lead to open discussion of action by the players’
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Best Of British – Spring has sprung!
Steve Klein set up a blog called Bush League Ramble a couple of years ago and has been writing sporadically about baseball on there (and for a few other sites) ever since. His latest undertaking is Reading The Game, a
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Gambling’s influence on Major League Baseball’s approach to minor league pay.
There have been multiple reports that Major League Baseball may be changing it’s approach to the pay of minor league players. The latest statement below seems to be a change from their historic stance of doing everything they legally can
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Best Of British – Baseball: Shelf Awareness & The National Pastime
Ash Day writes about the Cleveland Indians at England Tribe and you can find him at @AshDay29 To fall in love with the great game of baseball, your average British fan must overcome numerous barriers when they first encounter the
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Fantasy Value Options – Part 2
Mark Blakemore returns! Rounding off the good value options that I can see in the middle and back end of drafts. As in the previous article these are aimed at typical 5×5 roto leagues. We did most of the infield
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FIGHT! 2018
As we ramp up to the beginning of the 2019 season, one thing Baseball players have demonstrated over and over is that they’re good at keeping grudges (Lest we forget that in 2017 Hunter Strickland plunked Bryce Harper in retaliation
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TGFBI Draft – Process, Results and Thoughts
This year I have the great privilege of taking part in The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational, thanks to Justin Mason for allowing me and some of my fellow Bat Flips and Nerds in. Of the 21 leagues I was placed
Read moreFantasy Roto – The Standings Gain Points Approach
This article will be a summary of the Standings Gain Points (SGP) approach to Roto fantasy baseball and I will use the TGFBI (The Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational) as the draft I used it for to show you how. There
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Earlier on this week I saw a tweet that annoyed me; I know shock of horrors that a user gets annoyed on Twitter. It wasn’t the baseball usual of someone defending a wife beating player/owner or saying minor league players
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Fantasy Value Options – Part 1
Making a welcome return to blogging, Mark Blakemore… As we enter fantasy draft season I thought I may mention some of those value options that you may be able to find at the back end of some drafts. Often it’s
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