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Tag: mariners

Life lessons from a Seattle Mariners fan

February 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Life teaches you many lessons. A little one over the years is that the Seattle Mariners are a confusing mess of a Major League Baseball team. While I will limit that statement to the timespan of my own fandom, starting

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Mariners misery

What’s it like being a Mariners fan?

January 31, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Let’s have a look: Randy ‘The Big Unit’ Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar freaking Martinez, King Felix, Ichiro Suzuki. That’s just a few of the great names in recent memory to have worn a Mariners jersey. But that’s

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Three minutes on the Seattle Mariners

January 18, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

In 2001, 27-year-old Ichiro Suzuki made his MLB debut. Later that year, the Seattle Mariners reached the playoffs. It was the last time October baseball was enjoyed in Seattle, although with 89 wins last season, they came so very close.

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If Baseball was Football – Part 1: American League

June 3, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK

A big welcome back to the Baseball Brit, Joey Mellows… Major League Baseball is coming to the UK! The London Series has been officially scheduled for June 29th & 30th in 2019 and this has sent die hard MLB UK

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Give Hanley a Home!

June 2, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball

Making his BFN debut, welcome Dan Roach… Admittedly as a Red Sox fan the first couple of days dealing with the Hanley Ramirez news involved a lot of tears and cursing the names of Dave Dombrowski, John Henry, Alex Cora

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Season So Far – Seattle Mariners

June 21, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting, Reviews

Welcome to B&N, Tom Young… Blind optimism is the greatest and worst thing for sports fans, it gives us all a reason to believe this year will be ‘the one’ but for most it makes poor performance that more difficult

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Why that player on your team could be the MVP: AL West

March 19, 2017 Ben Carter Baseball, Opinion

Hope springs eternal. So said Alexander Pope in An Essay on Man apparently, all the way back in 1733, presumably oblivious to the fact his off-the-cuff phrase would become a widely and popularly used idiom. This three-word saying has a

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2016 Position Player Pitching Leaderboard

January 19, 2017 Thomas Pringle Baseball

First we have to set some ground rules, after a quick Play Index here is what I found. There were 26 instances found, I decided that players needed either a K or give up no runs to be eligible. 4

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Season Previews – American League West

April 4, 2016 John McGee Previews

Okay, so the season’s started but technically there aren’t yet any notches in the AL West column so we’re fine. And hey, we get it, that’ll become more tenuous as the week goes on but guess what, who cares? Anyway,

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