Baseball – Bat Flips and Nerds

His Name is Gio and the Ball flies from his hand

August 20, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

One of the things I find to be missing from MLB compared to European sports, and even the KBO & NPB, is the lack of chants about the players coming from the stands. The word play involved in these chants

Don’t Bring Me Down – Using Elo Ratings to help determine fan satisfaction.

August 13, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

Off the back of the trade deadline I have been wondering what is best for fans, a team that wins a singular World Series championship and is bad for 20+ years or a team that is close most of the

The Worst Called Strike of the First Half

August 1, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

As I mentioned in my first piece of this series, I miss the semi-season articles that Jeff Sullivan used to do for FanGraphs on the worst called balls and strikes. In the last piece we looked at called balls and

The Worst Called Ball of the First Half

July 31, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball, Pinch Hitting

We are a few weeks beyond the half point of the season and on the weekend I went in search for one of my favourite articles of each season. But after a few minutes of searching I realised that it

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

Will there be a London Series after 2020?

July 22, 2019 Ben Carter Baseball, London Series, Opinion

You might think it a little premature and probably quite ungrateful to be talking about baseball in the UK beyond 2020. We literally just had a series in London for the first time ever and the only thing I care

Pittsburgh Pirates deadline dilemmas

July 21, 2019 Gavin Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

On Wednesday 3rd July, the Pittsburgh Pirates came to bat at the bottom of the ninth inning trailing the Chicago Cubs 5-4. Elite closer, Craig Kimbrel was on the mound. He walked catcher Elias Diaz and then gave up a

Chasing Wade

July 18, 2019 Thomas Pringle Baseball

Regular visitors of this website, or followers of our Twitter account already know about my obsession with this image. I post it at least twice a month. Whether it’s in response to “What’s the greatest moment in sports history?” or

Why are the Yankees so tight?

July 18, 2019 Gavin 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

The Beautiful Cruelty Of Baseball

July 15, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Ryan Ferguson makes his BFN debut to tell us all about why he loves baseball. You can find more of Ryan’s excellent work here. Twitter (@RyanFergusonHQ), Facebook (Ryan Ferguson HQ), Instagram (ryanfergusonnn) and LinkedIn (Ryan Ferguson). To the uninitiated, baseball