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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #2 Montgomery Biscuits

March 26, 2020 Sarah Briggs Baseball, Beginner's Guide, Guest writer, Minoring in British, Official MiLB Affiliate, Pinch Hitting, Team Contributors

Riverwalk Stadium, home of the Montgomery Biscuits If you missed my first episode about the Macon Bacon, let me give you a bit of background. I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in September 2017 and immediately made a bucket list

Houston Astros: the most damaging aspect

March 15, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Message: Imagine turning up to your job for three years with the aim of being promoted to the top job. And then imagine that during that three-year period, you were overlooked for the top job because a colleague – someone

Fantasy baseball: I Used To Be The Best

March 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Guest writer

Who remembers when people used to bring newsprint magazines of fantasy values to a live draft or auction? (author raises hand) Ah, the good old days. There was a finite amount of fantasy information and you just read it and

An Ichiro Journey

March 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Those words of TS Eliot came to mind while watching what turned

Spring Training 2020: State of the Detroit Tigers

March 3, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

So it is that time of year again. Spring training is upon us, and with it, one would expect hope, right? Well for the Detroit Tigers is hope still alive? Is there hope that Ron Gardenhire can get the best

Thank God for Jackie

February 28, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

The quotation below is inscribed on the statue of President Gerald Ford in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. It is a tribute from Speaker of the House, Thomas “Tip” O’Neill after the President had given a full and absolute pardon to

What I love about baseball

February 23, 2020 Gavin Baseball, Guest writer

Spring is a wonderful time. It melts away the icy snows of winter and replaces it with green grass, the enveloping warmth of the sun and its fresh morning air. For hundreds of thousands of people around the world, spring

Toronto Blue Jays 2020: Reasons for Optimism

February 18, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer, Previews

What happened in 2019? With a record of 67 wins and 95 losses, last season was down there with one of the worst on record for the Blue Jays. Indeed, it saw the team continue along a path of steady

Only two St Louis Cardinals in the Top 100. Is that right?

February 18, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

The 2020 MLB season is looming with spring training underway, and so MLB Network has released its Top 100 Right Now list. It certainly looks great for some teams, but for last season’s National League runners up, St. Louis Cardinals,

Pittsburgh Pirates 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 17, 2020 Gavin Baseball, Guest writer, Previews

What happened in 2019? Three weeks into the season, when Jung Ho Kang mashed his third homer of the season, and Jameson Taillon took the win in a rain-shortened game against the Giants, the Pirates sat atop the NL Central.