Mookie Betts – Bat Flips and Nerds

Strength of Players Faced and the Impact on Player Output

October 30, 2018 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

So the World Series is complete and the Boston Red Sox are champions. The team with the best record over the season won the playoffs, that doesn’t happen often so the usual discussion of the value of the playoffs compared

1st Half Vs 2nd Half Comparisons – Hitters

October 4, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball, Pinch Hitting

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

Battle Of The Bad

September 20, 2018 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Pinch Hitting

There has been plenty of talk about the Triple Crown this season. With the Boston Red Sox outfielder J.D. Martinez as the now lone candidate to potentially win the crown, for the first time since Miguel Cabrera in 2012. Martinez is currently

What can Lebron James, Jacoby Ellsbury and Jon Heyman tell us about player pay in baseball?

July 4, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball

On Sunday this week, LeBron James’ agency Klutch Sports, announced that ‘The King’ had decided to play out the twilight of his basketball career in Los Angeles, with the sport’s signature franchise, the Lakers. The nuts and bolts were revealed

Why the MLB London Series matters

June 29, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball, London Series

Regular readers of this site over the last couple of years will have seen plenty of coverage of the MLB’s attempts to carve a small foothold in the consciousness of the British public. From initial fan engagement events, through to

Will there be a Triple Crown winner this season?

June 27, 2018 James Feldman Baseball

There hasn’t been a Triple Crown winner in baseball since 2012, when Miguel Cabrera picked up the trophy, with a batting average .330, 44 home runs and 139 runs batted in. Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander were the last players

Only Sox and Pinstripes – New York, Boston, Stratford

May 11, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Making his Bat Flips and Nerds debut, it’s Les McCaughan. Who can be found on twitter @Lez_Mets, usually in despair over his out-of-lineup-order Mets. After years of wondering if it ever could, should or would happen, not only is it

The London Series Announcement – When Tom met Rob Manfred

May 9, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK

On a scorching Tuesday afternoon in London, we at Bat Flips and Nerds were asked to join MLB UK at the Regent Street Cinema for a rather important announcement. Sadiq Khan was joined by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball

Baseball is coming to the UK; Report

May 3, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK

Back in 2016, we asked questions of what, when and how Major League Baseball could work in the United Kingdom. In January 2017, John wrote how he doesn’t think the Red Sox and Yankees should be the first two in

The Case for Defense – Examining Advances in Defensive Analytics

April 8, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball, Sabremetrics

Making his BF&N debut, welcome the analytical genius, Russell Eassom… Baseball like any other sport you win by scoring more than your opponents and in baseball you have to score more runs to win a game. But unlike most other