Current Minnesota Twin, and former big leaguer with the Royals and Braves, Lane Adams, joined John to chat everything from the upheaval to Spring Training caused by COVID19, the fight for better pay for Minor Leaguers and his lousy MLB
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Episode 161 – GB Coach Liam Carroll on the WBC that Never Was
One month ago, Russell was excited getting prepared for his trip to Arizona to present at the Sabr Conference and cover Team GB. Meanwhile, across the country, GB coach Liam Carroll, one of the wisest baseball minds we have this
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Episode 160 – Andy Burns, Toronto Blue Jays
Blue Jays infielder Andy Burns chats to John about his time with the club, his career as a ‘rock star’ with the Lotte Giants of the KBO and spending 2019 up close and personal in Buffalo with the Blue Jays
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Episode 159 – Darren Fletcher
Darren Fletcher, the voice of football on BT Sport and BBC Radio 5Live, joined Russell to chat about calling the MLB London Series for the UK broadcast, his own baseball fandom, and becoming a viral sensation Stateside. Listen to “Episode
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Episode 157 – The Big Season Preview Bonanza 2020 Edition
The Fab Four are back together. Tom, John and Darius are joined by the boy wonder from down under, Ben Carter, to go through their now locked-in method of predicting the upcoming season. They take the total number of wins
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Episode 156 – Jeff Passan, ESPN
ESPN’s own baseball savant Jeff Passan joins John to talk everything from the current state of baseball, to his evolution from reporter to newsbreaker. Includes a trade mark PASSAN BOMB at the end of the pod – but perhaps not
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Episode 155 – Mark Simon, Sports Info Solutions
Mark Simon of Sports Info Solutions joins Russell to discuss the latest edition of the Fielding Bible, the updated Defensive Runs Saved metric, and SABR, plus how Matt Chapman is even better than you thought, and how you can get
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Episode 154 – Rick Teasley Returns
Pitcher Rick Teasley returns to the podcast to share stories of his 2019 in the Atlantic League as MLB used them as a testing ground for the new automated strike zone, and his reasons for moving over to Cleburne of
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Episode 152 – OOTP Baseball’s Rich Grisham
Tom is joined by Out Of The Park (OOTP) Baseball’s Chief Operating Officer, Rich Grisham. They talk about how Rich got into OOTP, how he come to work with them, some of the challenges facing the team, where the game
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Episode 151 – Autobiographical Baseball
New recruit Rachel Steinberg hits the ground running by asking John, Darius and Rob to chart their baseball autobiographies in five players. Listen to “Episode 151 – Autobiographical Baseball” on Spreaker. Photo credit Tony Ranze/AFP via Getty Images Embed
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