Adam Perry (@Peza100) returns to Bat Flips and Nerds to look at Jewish baseball players in the US. I am not a religious person, in fact the only time I look for divine intervention is when the Red Sox are
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Category: Pinch Hitting
Baseball Is Coming (in 2019/2020)
Yesterday Major League Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for 2017-2021 was draft complete and released. Included within the weighty tome, was information we in the UK have been waiting for. A series of games will be coming to the British
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Five Prospects Who Could Make A Second Half Impact
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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Bird in the Bronx
Kurt Wilks (@KurtWilks) has recently returned from the Bronx, where he (A Cardinals fan) watched the New York Yankees tackle Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers. Read all about him breaking his baseball virginity. As a St Louis Cardinals fan
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The Girls Of Summer
Adam Perry (@Peza100) joins us again, where we follow him on his summer pilgrimage to watch his beloved Red Sox, sort of. As part of an unofficial pre-marital agreement, I am allowed to up and leave the family every two
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The MLB Draft is Daft
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
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
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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Do Managers Decline With Age?
In the most recent podcast episode of Effectively Wild, a listener asked about managerial ageing curves and whether managers get worse with age. The general consensus of the answer was “not really”, but I wanted to try and find out
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The GB Baseball Vs NBL All-Star Experience
Today was my first visit to Farnham Park (Baseball and Softball Complex in Buckinghamshire) for the Great British Baseball Vs National Baseball League (NBL) All-Star game. It was great to see these young British players going up against some of
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