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Tag: Trevor Bauer

One Move Every Team Should Make This Winter

November 13, 2020 Ben Carter Baseball, Opinion

With awards season done and dusted and qualifying offers accepted or rejected, we’re about to launch into MLB offseason ‘proper’, a long and generally tedious period of rumours, agent statements and – of course – Passan bombs. So let’s take

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San Francisco Giants: Free agents in the Bay?

November 12, 2020 Ash Day Baseball, Hot Stove, San Franciso Giants, Team Contributors

Every club’s focus is fixed firmly on the 2021 season. Except maybe Dodgers fans, who are probably still hungover. The rest of us have already begun our free agent watch, or The Hot Stove as it’s commonly known, scrolling Twitter

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What is in the water in Ohio?

August 14, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Warning: Tenuous link ahead. A few years ago, the town of Flint, Michigan suffered a catastrophe when cost-cutting measures forced the residents in the General Motors-based city to consume lead-contaminated water resulting in death, disease and birth abnormalities. Political and

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Is this the end of an era for the Cleveland Indians?

January 28, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

In a recent tweet, fantasy baseball writer Scott White lamented that 21 of the 22 teams in his dynasty league were rebuilding. This sad state of affairs shows how easy it is for fantasy baseball players to throw in the

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September storylines to follow: Astros pitchers

September 7, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Hopefully, you caught the recent Bat Flips and Nerds podcast. The one with the famous four rambling on about subjects as diverse as Bob Carolgees, Heart of Midlothian defenders and Durham Uni’s student newspaper. If you haven’t already listened, you

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The Called First Pitch Strike – Why?

July 30, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

I have a few bugbears when I watch a game of Major League Baseball, I feel most of these are derived from the fact that I have never been taught how to play the game or faced something being thrown

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Why are the Yankees so tight?

July 18, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

There are many reasons why the Oakland Athletics continue to fail to win the World Series during Billy Beane’s tenure. One much-talked about suggestion is that the postseason is a “crapshoot”. Randomness has a bigger influence over the short 5-game/7-game

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Episode 125 – Ben Lindbergh – The MVP Machine

July 12, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Podcast

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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New Season, New Pitch – Does adding a pitch make a pitcher better?

April 13, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

The image above is some usage, speed and spin info on Trevor Bauer‘s 2018 season. Last season he added a slider which he threw 20% of the time to right handed hitters. This change along with some refinement of his

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Trading Away Your Best

January 23, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

The ‘Hot Stove’ that is free agency has been rather cold this year, with neither of the top 2 players (Harper & Machado) having signed at the time of writing. But there have been numerous trades and plenty of trade

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