A big welcome back to the Baseball Brit, Joey Mellows… Major League Baseball is coming to the UK! The London Series has been officially scheduled for June 29th & 30th in 2019 and this has sent die hard MLB UK
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Winter Meetings Day 3 – Schrock Moves and Bullpen Boosts
It’s the Winter Meetings this week in Orlando – Disney World in fact, a part of Florida where even Derek Jeter might struggle to be the biggest joke on show. As ever with the set piece offseason occasion, the list
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Battlegrounds Profile: Carlos Peña
It’s less than a week to MLB UK’s Battlegrounds event in Hyde Park, and that means it’s time to acquaint ourselves with the second of the trio of former MLB stars who will be making an appearance. Last time we
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A Brief History of Mound Charges – Part 1
Rob Noverraz breaks down a few of his favourite moments in all of baseball… ‘Baseball is a game of pitching, batting, fielding and running; none of us want to see brawls.’ Half of the previous sentence is accurate and that’s
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What next for the Tigers?
Is it finally time for the men from Detroit to turn away from Mike Ilitch’s title-chasing instincts? We look to one of the betting markets’ likely ‘big movers’.
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Pitch Framing – Myth or Magic?
Back with a stonker is UK Baseball Blog‘s Ben Carter. Pitch framing began to enter the baseball lexicon around the 2011 season, and by the time Ben Lindbergh wrote this wonderful piece in 2013 most sabermetrically inclined baseball fans had
Read moreSeason Previews – American League Central
Okay, same deal – since you’re here, you know where to go to for a fulsome projection of farm systems and statistical breakdowns of the bench guys. So here’s a pithy take on what to watch in this year’s AL
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