Oakland Athletics outfielder Kyler Murray is set to turn his back on baseball for a career in American football. Will it be the biggest mistake of his life? When the Oakland Athletics selected outfielder Kyler Murray with the ninth overall
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Game Makers 1 – Murray Cook
Tom is joined by MLB’s head groundskeeper, Murray Cook to discuss his role and the upcoming London Series. They start by discovering how Murray got into being a groundskeeper, then his previous projects and finally the London Series. They discuss
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Episode 100 – The Bat Flips and Nerds Christmas Party
Christmas is here! John is joined by Tom ‘Jingle’, Darius and Ben for a live Christmas special, complete with mince pies, mulled wine, silly jumpers and secret santa. They go over listeners Christmas wish lists, deciding whether santa will be
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Ranking all 30 MLB stadiums on the basis of their names alone
BONUS EXTRA STADIUM (31) 31. London Stadium BORING BANK SPONSORS (30-25) 30. Suntrust Park 29. Citizens Bank Park 28. Comerica Park 27. PNC Park 26. Chase Field 25. Citi Field We get it. You needed cash to pay for the
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What does each MLB club want in their Christmas stocking? Part One
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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Three minutes on the Baltimore Orioles
In February, PECOTA, the much-maligned projection system from Baseball Prospectus, suggested a 69-win season for the Orioles. Camden Chat’s response was: Where does it all leave the Orioles? PECOTA has given its answer: 69 wins. Orioles fans have to hope
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Introducing the replacement level WAR team
Nowadays, with the statistical generation and the people that Jayson Werth likes to call “nerds” taking over the game, we have a whole raft of numbers at our disposal. But one always seems to take the biscuit and is used
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What your team *really* needs this off-season. An alternative look. (ARI – MIA)
There are plenty of posts out there telling you the moves your team should make, but what about the moves your team must make? There are quite a few essential things a Major League Baseball team needs to succeed in the modern era.
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What your team *really* needs this off-season. An alternative look. (MIL – WAS)
Previously we looked at all the teams from the Arizona Diamondbacks to the Miami Marlins. Today, we’re continuing the alternative look from the Milwaukee Brewers to the Washington Nationals. MILWAUKEE BREWERS The Brewers have a famous English river mashing home
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How to measure a pitchers overall performance?
The question of how good someone is at a task extends beyond baseball. In professional sports where there are now very large sums of money involved in player development and contracts, it has become a question people want to be
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