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Tag: Houston Astros

The Return of Cora

November 16, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Jack Hinchliff is making his BFN debut. Yet to find a team to follow, why not hit him up on Twitter and peddle your team to him? Do Damage!  Do Damage! A slogan that epitomises the all-conquering 2018 Boston Red Sox and their first year manager

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Stay humble, but for how long?

October 1, 2020 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

At 9:41pm on the 30th September, the Astros published this tweet. Let’s hear about those busted brackets. #ForTheH pic.twitter.com/hJ4nRdY4BD — Houston Astros (@astros) September 30, 2020 People on Twitter got mad. I know, I was shocked too. People wanted the

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Houston Astros: the most damaging aspect

March 15, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Message: Imagine turning up to your job for three years with the aim of being promoted to the top job. And then imagine that during that three-year period, you were overlooked for the top job because a colleague – someone

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Astros 2020: Week 1 … Hopefully, not an entirely fictional review

February 16, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

The post-Luhnow/Hinch era began as the last one ended, with Anthony Rendon rubbing it in by hitting a home run at Minute Maid Park, his first in an Angels uniform, as the Angels signified their intent for this year’s AL

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Reasons to watch baseball – AL West

February 10, 2020 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

AL EAST | AL CENTRAL | AL WEST | NL EAST | NL CENTRAL | NL WEST I’m committing myself to watching every team this season, at least one full game each. No longer will I load up MLB.tv after work,

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Episode 137 – Volvos Of Baseball

October 16, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Podcast

Tom returns! He’s joined by the ever present Darius Austin and the young spunk, Ben Carter. Tom immediately takes them off track by discussing a twitter storm from the past 24-hours, then the latest mobile games available for Android, before

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Hot takes and overreactions

April 3, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

It is far too early to anoint Phillies as World Series champions or label Chris Sale’s contract a bust, or even start thinking that the Baltimore Orioles might be a good team. Here are some interesting snippets from the opening

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JUST ACCEPT IT, PECOTA HATES YOUR TEAM

February 10, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

Baseball Prospectus has just released their PECOTA projections for 2019, and you know what? They hate your team. The funny thing is, PECOTA is not opinion, yet MLB players, managers and fans take it personally. An acronym for Player Empirical

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Trading Away Your Best

January 23, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

The ‘Hot Stove’ that is free agency has been rather cold this year, with neither of the top 2 players (Harper & Machado) having signed at the time of writing. But there have been numerous trades and plenty of trade

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What does each MLB club want in their Christmas stocking? Part One

December 10, 2018 Padraig Whelan Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Ho-ho-ho. It is that time of year again. Unfortunately for baseball fans though, Christmas comes at a time of year when, save for off-season signings and Winter Meetings, there is little happening in the sport. But that doesn’t mean anyone

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