It is the baseball offseason. A time for checking the heat on the hot stove every few hours, counting down the days until pitchers and catchers and devouring any baseball related content to get us through the winter. Well, we
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A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: Jeff Passan’s “The Arm”
I finished reading Jeff Passan’s book The Arm shortly after making my pitching debut in the London Mets Fall League, pitching exclusively what one teammate charitably described as ‘80s loop balls’ (referring, of course, to the decade of the 1980s
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From Britain to the Bronx – Why I Chose the Yankees
Jonty Fletcher makes his Bat Flips and Nerds debut, explaining to us why he chose the Yankees and why he loves baseball. Growing up in Britain, it’s not so easy to follow American sports. Many look at baseball and think
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Who is the best Postseason team since 1995?
It’s just your regular question you ask you mates down the pub. “Who is the best Postseason team since 1995?” They stare at you blankly for what feels like a lifetime, one friend finally speaks. “Are you talking about baseball
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Episode 95 – The Evil Wizard of Legal Positivism
John begins the show going crazy about the Jose Altuve “home run” reactions, whilst trying to stay calm. Tom then tries to bring John down by making reference to his now famous “passed ball” line. Darius laughs at both of
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How to Silence the Commentators by Craig Counsell and the Brewers
A few hours before the 4.5 hour long 4th game of the ALCS — and the ensuing outrage over fan interference — the general baseball populace, and more specifically the commentators on FS1, were dumbfounded when Craig Counsell and the
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I’m Starting To Worry, Jose
It is October, the Indians have once again made the postseason but failed to bring home the coveted World Series title and the ‘curse’ moves on another year. Many of the Indians players didn’t play to their potential in the
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Old Rivalry, New Ground
Hannah Tomlinson makes her Bat Flips and Nerds debut, as she visited one of MLB UK’s 108 Sessions in London. So, there it was, in an abandoned warehouse-cum-brewery-cum-music venue, the first sign of major league baseball in London. The 108 sessions,
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Analytics and its effects on the MLB – The Bunt
Each year I see another ex-professional baseball player come out and say analytics is ‘killing the game’, this year it was the ex-Nationals and Phillies outfielders Jayson Werth. In August he said “I think it’s killing the game. It’s to
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1st Half Vs 2nd Half Comparisons – Hitters
In MVP voting, recency bias is going to be a factor and that can’t be helped. With that in mind, I wondered who were the top performers for the first half of the season vs the second half. Fangraphs has
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