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Category: Baseball

Apropos of nothing: The PED All-Star lineup

August 14, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

There are many reasons why I hate drug cheats but mainly because they fuel my scepticism of exceptional sporting performances. I don’t want to doubt the legitimacy of Shohei Ohtani‘s brilliance or Edwin Diaz‘s resurgence, or Aaron Judge‘s power surge,

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Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum

August 9, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson

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San Francisco Giants: Joey Bart steps forward

August 9, 2022 Ash Day Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Team Contributors

When Buster Posey announced his retirement in November 2021, the stage was set for his successor to usher in a new era of Giants baseball. The man who would follow Posey was always going to tread a difficult path. How

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

August 4, 2022 Joshua Edwards Announcement, 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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World Baseball Classic: Can the GB National Team qualify?

August 4, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, GB Baseball, World Baseball Classic

Last week, we looked at the forthcoming World Baseball Classic, but before the tournament across three nations of Japan, Taiwan, and the USA starts in March 2023, there is still a little matter of final qualification. The GB National Team

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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?

August 3, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The

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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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Trade Deadline Predictions: Who did best?

July 31, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Opinion

The trade deadline hype train is gathering momentum. We have a little over 48 hours before it pulls into the station of inactivity until after the World Series. Four of your favourite Bat Flips & Nerds personalities pit their wits

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Home Run Derby X: What a bunch of whining Brits

July 28, 2022 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, London Series

On Saturday, I stood in sweltering conditions for hours on end. It was 35 degrees in the shade, although as shade was at a premium, I don’t know how they recorded that. Refreshments from a makeshift bar involved a one-mile

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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story

July 22, 2022 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even

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