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Category: Opinion

MLB Rookies of 2017 – Part 1

August 8, 2017 Rob Noverraz Baseball, Opinion

At the time of writing (some weeks ago – a very tardy and apologetic ed.), 153 players had made their MLB debut in 2017.  Just over half way through the season I was interested to see how the newbies are

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Five Prospects Who Could Make A Second Half Impact

July 15, 2017 Ben Carter Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

It’s officially hot stove season in the Major Leagues and I could not be more excited. At no other time in the year do you get the delightful cocktail of awful trade ideas from biased fans, Ken Rosenthal dropping unexpected

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The MLB Draft is Daft

June 22, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Rob Noverraz returns, bearing graphs… The Major League Draft can seem like a strange beast to those who grew up with European Sports; whilst some will disregard it as ludicrous or daft it certainly has its benefits. Let’s take football

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Season So Far – Seattle Mariners

June 21, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting, Reviews

Welcome to B&N, Tom Young… Blind optimism is the greatest and worst thing for sports fans, it gives us all a reason to believe this year will be ‘the one’ but for most it makes poor performance that more difficult

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Welcome to the Blow-pen – A Brief Guide to the 2017 Washington Nationals ‘Pen

June 18, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ll have noticed one of the major talking points in the Major leagues has been the Nats bullpen seemingly giving away leads like they’re going out of style.

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A Brief History of Mound Charges – Part 1

June 12, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion

Rob Noverraz breaks down a few of his favourite moments in all of baseball… ‘Baseball is a game of pitching, batting, fielding and running; none of us want to see brawls.’ Half of the previous sentence is accurate and that’s

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71 Reasons to Love Baseball

June 10, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion

Lists are great. Here’s Adam Perry debuting on the blog with a great list… There are 162 games in a regular season, so there is always tomorrow. You can also watch every game live (for a modest fee) They don’t

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Blake’s Fantasy Free Agent Finds – 8-14 June

June 7, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Fantasy Baseball, Opinion

Back again for a second week, it’s Blake Finney… Hopefully after a few of you were able to grab some of the players I mentioned last week (even if two of them are now Day-to-Day *facepalm*), After another week of

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Twins v Rays? Who Cares? Well, Maybe You Should…

June 4, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion

Welcome podcast contributor and Rays fanatic Rob Noverraz to the B&N blog… A couple of nights ago I watched the Rays and the Twins grind into a 15th inning after 6 and a half hours of play and I had

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Introducing the Erie SeaWolves – Official MILB Affiliate of the UK

April 19, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Official MiLB Affiliate, Opinion, Seawolves

To those of you following on Twitter, this blog probably feels a little ‘after the Lord Mayor’s Show’. To our new friends and followers in Erie, that’s one of our weirder British idioms – there are a lot and you’ll

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