The British Baseball Federation has acted swiftly to fill the gap left this Wednesday by the shock resignation of its long-term skipper Liam Carroll, promoting under 23s head coach Drew Spencer to the top table. Spencer, whose official title will
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The British Baseball Federation announced this lunchtime that Men’s Senior Team Coach Liam Carroll would be leaving his post with immediate effect, ending a 16 year association with the national team programme as a player, administrator and coach. It’s a
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Baseball in 2020 is weird and MLB in 2020 is even weirder still. We have watched less than two months of MLB games, yet we are already in the crunch moment of the season with most teams having fewer than
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We always knew that the award races in a 60 game season would be wild. Plenty of columns were written in the run up to the season about the statistical possibilities that a 60 game season throws up, from a
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About a week ago, I had a whole ton of words written up about the Rockies hot start and why even regression would be unlikely to keep them from a postseason spot given the shortened length of the season and
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It is Friday 14 August 2020. We are about one-third of the way through this bizarre season. For many reasons, 2020 has not been a good year, so we are in need of an upbeat, feel-good news story. And they
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Warning: Tenuous link ahead. A few years ago, the town of Flint, Michigan suffered a catastrophe when cost-cutting measures forced the residents in the General Motors-based city to consume lead-contaminated water resulting in death, disease and birth abnormalities. Political and
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Speechless. I have no speech. This could easily sum up this crazy Opening Week 3.0 for the Miami Marlins. This is what has happened in the season so far: Marlins spent almost a month on the road and got half
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With expanded playoffs a “thing” this season, eight teams from each league will play October baseball. The top two teams in each division make up 12 of the 16 spots, with the two final places in each league going to
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Trade: Brad Hand to the Cincinnati Reds for RHP Joe Boyle Nearly everyone in Cleveland does not like Brad Hand in the closer role. I thought Cody Allen was tough to watch as a closer, but Hand has blown that
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