To brighten these frustratingly slow days before regular season action starts, we have a new series of Bat Flips and Nerds articles for you. Baseball chinwags are quick chats with a few of our favourite characters within the baseball broadcasting/fantasy
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Hopefully, you read the previous article reviewing 2019 PECOTA projections, entitled “Just accept it, PECOTA hates your team”, and you are still in the mood for more discussion about projections. As you know, PECOTA is the algorithm from Baseball Prospectus
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Baseball Prospectus has just released their PECOTA projections for 2019, and you know what? They hate your team. The funny thing is, PECOTA is not opinion, yet MLB players, managers and fans take it personally. An acronym for Player Empirical
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Welcome back Ash Day It can be difficult being a baseball fan when you live an ocean away from the sport you love. It is considerably more difficult when the majority of games begin and end when you really ought
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It is hard to argue that the Angels were not the most exciting MLB team to watch last season: Shohei Ohtani pitching, Shohei Ohtani hitting, Andrelton Simmons’ wizardry at shortstop and of course, Mike Trout, the greatest player on the
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Picture the scene. Kansas City Royals owner David Glass summons GM Dayton Moore and team manager Ned Yost into his plush, top floor office in Kauffman Stadium. He asks what they need in 2019 in order to accomplish the rebuild.
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My first thought was an albatross. These sort of contracts used to be called “player-friendly”, but now they are dismissed by clubs and the media as bad deals. We can all see that as teams become more analytically savvy, fewer
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An uncharitable friend suggested that this article was two minutes, 30 seconds too long, but that it is to underestimate the plans that are being undertaken to transform the Marlins into a winning franchise. Nobody said it would be easy.
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After a dozen or so years of contending, the Detroit Tigers are now in a transition phase. It was fun while it lasted. Since their World Series appearance in 2006, the Tigers finished first or second in their division eight
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WIllians Astudillo is the one of the most exciting players in baseball. Let’s adopt him as the UK’s favourite MLB player.
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