Here at Bat Flips and Nerds we sometimes get people who want to contribute but don’t know what to write. We often say to them, “Why not write about what got you into baseball?” I have never written one of
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Tag: Toronto Blue Jays
Episode 160 – Andy Burns, Toronto Blue Jays
Blue Jays infielder Andy Burns chats to John about his time with the club, his career as a ‘rock star’ with the Lotte Giants of the KBO and spending 2019 up close and personal in Buffalo with the Blue Jays
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Toronto Blue Jays: How to sabotage the AL East
[Note: Whilst drafting this COVID-19 has put the entire upcoming MLB season in serious doubt. Whilst the following may not even be relevant now and feels kind of pointless given the seriousness of the pandemic, I hope this post at
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Toronto Blue Jays: Who will sneak into the rotation?
A key question Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo has been trying to answer this preseason is which exciting young prospect or flashy new signing has earned their place in Toronto’s starting pitcher rotation? During the offseason, the Blue Jays signed optimism-inducing,
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Toronto Blue Jays 2020: Reasons for Optimism
What happened in 2019? With a record of 67 wins and 95 losses, last season was down there with one of the worst on record for the Blue Jays. Indeed, it saw the team continue along a path of steady
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Reasons to watch baseball – AL East
AL EAST | AL CENTRAL | AL WEST | NL EAST | NL CENTRAL | NL WEST I’m committing myself to watching every team this season, at least one full game each. No longer will I load up MLB.tv after
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A little love letter to you
Dear British baseball community, Canadians are weird. We spell “ise” words with a “z” but call the letter a “zed”. The Queen is on all of our money, but Americans are on most of our favourite television shows. Being a
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Five Pitchers I’d Like to See in the Blue Jays’ Rotation Instead of Edwin Jackson
It’s tough to be a Blue Jays fan right now. Yes, we have Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who is hitting hard and showing a lot of promise on the field and at the plate. Yes, our farm system is stacked with
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Matt Shoemaker, Kevin Pillar, and the Neverending Search for Redemption
After getting involved in a rundown on the path between first and second, Blue Jays pitcher Matt Shoemaker twisted his leg as he applied a tag and tore his ACL during Saturday’s game against the Oakland A’s. The aftermath was
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Baseball’s unwritten rules, when tradition overstays its welcome.
Cultural Relativism is the theory that beliefs, customs, and morality exist in relation to the culture from which they originate and are not absolute – in other words, what is moral in one society or culture, may not be moral
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