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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story

July 22, 2022 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even

Home Run Derby X: Revisiting Geovany Soto’s incredible rookie year

July 7, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

While the last decade was unquestionably one of the best in the entire history of the Chicago Cubs, the one that preceded it was far from the worst. In 2003, the team won the division and looked set to end

Magical Mad Max Scherzer is back

July 6, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

Baseball is romantic, but there is little to no romanticism in insomnia. It is debilitating and puts one in a frame of mind something akin to zombification, if not total surrender. My insomnia, thankfully, is relatively transient. Like a roster

Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets

June 21, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Learning to Baseball, Team Contributors

Here I am. The top deck (ahem, upper tier) at the London Stadium, watching the inaugural International Series game between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Me: ‘They make it look so easy.’ Friend: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ Me:

The Chicago Cubs do not have the resources necessary to compete in 2022

June 20, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

I’ll admit that I felt a degree of optimism when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts wrote to fans back in October, stating “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them.” Like the bulk

5 things you can do to catch up on the 2022 season

March 31, 2022 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Beginner's Guide, Learning to Baseball, Opinion

Each year I begin the season staring at Fangraphs (other baseball reference sites are available), wondering where all my favourite baseballists have moved to. I wonder which team will be winning 100-games and which team will be floundering at the

Willson Contreras is both the player and personality the Cubs need right now

March 31, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

Despite gutting their roster at last year’s deadline, the Chicago Cubs “have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond,” and will use them, according to Tom Ricketts. While the signings of Marcus Stroman and Seiya Suzuki have gone

A new future: Baseball in Finland

March 13, 2022 Tomi Korkeamaki Baseball, Guest writer, Your New Favourite League

Some of you might remember from my first article here on Bat flips and Nerds that I wrote that baseball is our national sport here in Finland. It’s just a bit different from the one we all know. I also

Episode 263 – Snookie Betts and The Little B**** Box

February 5, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Podcast

We’re back! John, Rob, Russell and Ben combine for a special pod to answer one question: if you could take a rule or tradition from another sport and transplant it onto baseball, what would you choose? Answers range from the

Boston Red Sox: Is Chris Sale still an ace?

January 11, 2022 Richard Banks Baseball, Team Contributors

I’ll hold my hands up right off the bat – Chris Sale has been one of my favourite pitchers in the game of baseball for a number of years. Things about him have always fascinated me, whether it be the