Our very first active Major Leaguer, Phil Hughes, joins Tom just before he “ships out” to Miller Park to face the Brewers and attempt to take the series. They talk about Phil’s favourite team growing up, his World Series championship in
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Tag: San Diego Padres
Tom’s Bumper Fantasy Baseball Style MLB Standings Extravaganza
I recently read a tweet that the Padres had the best record of the NL West since the 1st of May. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING?? pic.twitter.com/bvywoY10Jm — Roy, Co-Lord of the StatBoyz (@Zippy_TMS) June 8, 2018 There
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The Padres Outfield Situation and Travis Jankowski
The Padres started the 2018 season with multiple questions, one of them was “How do seven outfielders fit into six spots?”. The protagonists were: Manuel Margot, Franchy Cordero, Jose Pirela (who technically can play other positions but isn’t great at
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Tuckin’ Hell – Who is Franmil Reyes?
Popular Padres news site @EVT_News had it first; *Breaking News* Franmil Reyes has been recalled from El Paso. No word on corresponding move yet from the #Padres Reyes, 22 put up a .346/.440/.748 batting line with 14 home runs in
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Tuckin’ Hell 2018: The Padres need one* thing to win.
Baseball is back, good baseball is back, bad baseball is back, the San Diego Padres are back and finally Tuckin’ Hell is back. Join Tom as he watches the Swinging Friars in their mission to win some games of baseball
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Baseball By Committee Meetup 2018 – London
On a chilly Sunday evening in London, the Baseball By Committee crew met in Belushi’s bar close to London Bridge. The crew — consisting of Dave Shaw, Adam Harnischfeger, George Martin and Hannah — were all in attendance approximately 90
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Episode 64 – Listener Questions & The Street Furniture Draft
John and Tom are back, this time they answer all your burning questions. They start by looking at the Red Sox and their recent moves, tackle the Rays teardown/rebuild/who knows, they speculate free agent training camp, they draft street furniture (feel
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Wade Miley should wear brown.
Wade Miley works quickly, Wade Miley wrestles snakes, Wade Miley eats innings. What do the Padres need? Someone who eats innings. The snake wrestling thing can’t hurt either. According to the official Padres website, their current rotation consists of: Clayton
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Tuckin’ Hell – Part 16
When I first started writing about the Padres, I imagined I would be seeing some good young hitting, a tidy bullpen and finally some hit and miss starters. Overall, it would be a team that loses more games than it
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MLB Rookies of 2017 – Part 1
At the time of writing (some weeks ago – a very tardy and apologetic ed.), 153 players had made their MLB debut in 2017. Just over half way through the season I was interested to see how the newbies are
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