The Milwaukee Brewers are currently the only major league club without a representative in MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects for 2020. They also have no prospects on Baseball America’s Top-100 prospect list or Baseball Prospectus’ equivalent list. One would imagine
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DFA = Dross From Amateurs, we feature posts that don’t quite fit anywhere on the internet. At all. I recently endured* a terrifying parenting moment. (*This never happened) While walking along a busy road, my youngest daughter decided to let
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Baseball fans are everywhere. We are not freaks obsessed with a minority sport. We are young, old, athletic, sedentary, analytical, illogical. We are boys, we are girls, we are women, and we are men. Baseball fans come in all shapes
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This is an entirely objective list, feedback is not welcome. The guy in the feature image isn’t in the list because his band is awful. Some of these are a reach, deal with it. NL East Atlanta Braves – Mastodon
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Stephen Jones from No Cryin In Baseball makes his Bat Flips and Nerds debut, where he talks about his journey into baseball. It’s not the usual story when it comes to Yankees merch. I became interested in baseball around 2006
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Welcome back to BF&N Ash Day… The MLB offseason is pure torture. Fans long for the return of baseball and the warmer weather that accompanies it. The winter crawls by as we eagerly count down the days until pitchers and
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In a new section at Bat Flips and Nerds, Dross From Amateurs, we feature posts that don’t quite fit anywhere on the internet. At all. Baseball is boring. That’s what we keep hearing, it’s too long, it’s stagnated, it’s full
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In the midst of its Postseason, and probably unbeknownst to most of its fans, MLB has taken its next steps in using an automated ball-strike system or “Robo Umps” as I like to call them. This was first tested in
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The end of the regular season is the time of the season when I check the playoff odds every day, to see how much they have changed. As I have said with WAR in my previous pieces, these are values
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In the first piece, here, I discussed checking the replacement level for WAR. This was re-blogged by Tom Tango and led to a discussion with him and Mitchel Lichtman, one of the other co-authors of The Book (a seminal sabermetric
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