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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Category: Pinch Hitting
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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Let Us Download
I’m currently sat at 40,000ft on an RAF Voyager heading back from Cyprus to the UK. It’s not a particularly long flight (4 hours 40 minutes), but it’s one that requires some entertainment to keep a brain stimulated. Books, magazines,
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Official MiLB Affiliate of the UK – The Shortlist
*Update* Five is a bad number. Eight is better. Eight means a bracket. *Update* As if we aren’t already far enough down a rabbit hole here as UK based baseball fans, we’ve hatched a plan to take it to the next level.
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“Talk to me in June”
“Meh, these games don’t matter as much, talk to me in June when the games really matter.” In my experience this is a familiar phrase when it comes to baseball fans talking about their team and any early season struggles.
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Mayor reaffirms his drive for Baseball in London
I want to be a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. I also want to live a healthy and long life. I also want a car that doesn’t break down every two months due to some crappy electrical failure.
Read moreI Should Have Been A Cubs Fan!
Here’s a tale of woe from Tom Pringle. Follow Tom on Twitter @pedroiasface Let us go back in time to December 2000, I was 17, and bored. It was a Saturday afternoon, bitter cold outside and I knew the ground
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