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Author: Joshua Edwards

New York Mets: 2022 Season Review

October 23, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Opinion

Not many clubs have disappointing 101-win seasons, but that’s what happened to the Mets this year. Last Sunday night they fell 2-1 in the National League Wildcard round to the Padres, and the second-most successful regular season in Mets history

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London Series: Cardinals and Cubs to play in MLB London Series 2023

August 4, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Breaking News, London Series

Hold on to your hats, folks. MLB has confirmed that the two teams competing in the 2023 London Series are… drumroll… the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals. The two games will take place on 24-25 June 2023, marking

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Remembering Vin Scully, broadcasting legend

August 3, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Breaking News

On a day where the baseball world anticipated, celebrated, and mocked blockbuster trades before the deadline, including Juan Soto to San Diego, some sadder news cut through the noise: Vin Scully, the long-time Dodgers play-by-play announcer widely considered one of

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Magical Mad Max Scherzer is back

July 6, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

Baseball is romantic, but there is little to no romanticism in insomnia. It is debilitating and puts one in a frame of mind something akin to zombification, if not total surrender. My insomnia, thankfully, is relatively transient. Like a roster

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Potential London Series 2023 Matchups: Part One

July 1, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, London Series

Excitement is contagious, and excitement is building. This week the socials have been awash with MLB London content, it having been three years to the day on June 29 that the Yankees and Red Sox pitched up in East London

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets

June 21, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Team Contributors

Here I am. The top deck (ahem, upper tier) at the London Stadium, watching the inaugural International Series game between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Me: ‘They make it look so easy.’ Friend: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ Me:

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Remembering Roger Angell: A tribute to a legend

June 10, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball

Roger Angell went extra-innings. The famed essayist, novelist, editor and sportswriter passed away on 20 May at the age of 101 in New York. Doing the maths reveals some remarkable facts: Angell, a Manhattan native and later a graduate of

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