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MLB London Series – An Event for all of European Baseball?

April 22, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series

Welcome to BFN Tim Vergoossen… The new baseball season is approaching the end of its first full month. With that, the first matchup between two American baseball franchises on European soil – for so long a dream we never thought

Jake Arrieta’s Looking ‘Ace’ Again

April 22, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Analytics, Baseball

Welcome to BFN, Sean Guest… It’s easy to forget just how good Jake Arrieta was in 2015. In 33 starts, he won a career-best 22 games, with an ERA of 1.77 en route to the National League Cy Young. He

Can We Play You Every Week

April 21, 2019 Russell Eassom Analytics, Baseball

“Can we play you, can we play you, can we play you every week. Can we play you every week.” Those of you more familiar with British football will recognise this chant. It is one that the fans will sing

How I got into baseball – Mark Buckton

April 20, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

My first baseball experience came in August 1994, almost… Working for a few weeks on Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada as part of an RAF Harrier squadron, we had been told an MLB team would be

From The Press Box – April

April 19, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Rachel Steinberg returns to begin a regular column. You can find her BFN debut here. Welcome to From the Press Box, a weekly attempt to round up the best of the UK media’s reporting on our favourite sport. I’m not

Baseball’s unwritten rules, when tradition overstays its welcome.

April 18, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

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

Here’s A Popular Post from Bat Flips and Nerds Dot Com…

April 16, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

Being a fan of MLB isn’t the easiest when you are based in the UK. With only a few games being played at times where you might expect a finish at a reasonable hour. Fans have to regularly determine if

The Boys of Spring – Part 2

April 15, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

The story so far – During a trip to watch Spring Training in Florida, I watched a Yankees/Phillies minor league game. I noted the names of six of the Phillies players, and resolved to follow them through the season to

Pitch Movement – There’s something in the air

April 14, 2019 Russell Eassom Baseball

If you have been watching baseball for some time you will know the game is slightly different at Coors Field. At 5,200 feet (1,580 m) above sea level, Coors Field is by far the highest park in the majors. The

Chris Davis gets a hit – And the best moment of the season so far

April 13, 2019 John McGee Baseball

Put it in the books. In the top of the 1st inning of today’s ongoing game with the Boston Red Sox – approximately 6.23pm here in the UK – Chris Davis broke his historic skid of 54 at bats without