In my previous piece, on the intro to infield outs above average (OAA), I quickly compared Marcus Semien and Javier Baez. I showed you that, in 2019, Baez had 19 OAA and Semien has -4 OAA. This analytically tells us
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DFA – Pooetry in motion
Dross From Amateurs, we feature posts that don’t quite fit anywhere on the internet. At all. I’ve already proven I can’t write poetry, but when has evidence and criticism stopped me before? Here’s a poetic review of the 2019 season.
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Wade Miley Rumours
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Episode 137 – Volvos Of Baseball
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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Who to support in September if your team has been eliminated
Games matter more in September. They don’t of course. But they also do. As chances to make up deficits grow thinner and the magic numbers trickle down into single digits, the spotlight shines bright on teams on the precipice –
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Will there be a London Series after 2020?
You might think it a little premature and probably quite ungrateful to be talking about baseball in the UK beyond 2020. We literally just had a series in London for the first time ever and the only thing I care
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Chasing Wade
Regular visitors of this website, or followers of our Twitter account already know about my obsession with this image. I post it at least twice a month. Whether it’s in response to “What’s the greatest moment in sports history?” or
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The Beautiful Cruelty Of Baseball
Ryan Ferguson makes his BFN debut to tell us all about why he loves baseball. You can find more of Ryan’s excellent work here. Twitter (@RyanFergusonHQ), Facebook (Ryan Ferguson HQ), Instagram (ryanfergusonnn) and LinkedIn (Ryan Ferguson). To the uninitiated, baseball
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Episode 125 – Ben Lindbergh – The MVP Machine
Darius and Tom are joined by Effectively Wild host, The Ringer writer and author of The Only Rule is it Has To Work and The MVP Machine, Ben Lindbergh. They cover the book in detail, including the controversial topic of
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2019 MLB Pythagorean Theorem – Predictions for the rest of the way
Martyn joins us to make his debut for Bat Flips and Nerds, you can read his fantasy baseball musing here, on Twitter. Bill James’ “Pythagorean theorem” is a key feature for baseball bettors, fans & fantasy baseball players. It basically
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